Crispin Dowler

Dec 8, 2024 | publiceye.ch | Naira Hofmeister |Crispin Dowler |with Laurent Gaberell

When Brazil banned the notorious weedkiller paraquat, farmers switched to diquat, a close chemical cousin. But now diquat – a Syngenta pesticide banned in Switzerland and in the EU – is causing problems of its own. Naira Hofmeister, with Laurent Gaberell and Crispin Dowler, 8. December 2024 When one side of his body seized up after working the fields of his small-holding, Valdemar Postanovicz feared he was having a stroke. “All the right side of my body was paralysed.

May 17, 2023 | publiceye.ch | Crispin Dowler

New investigation shows for first time the full scale of the EU’s trade in neonicotinoid chemicals it has branded a global threat to biodiversity and food security. The European Union is exporting more than 10,000 tonnes of ‘bee killing’ neonicotinoid pesticides a year to poorer countries, despite having banned the use of these chemicals in its own fields to protect pollinators.