date:Aug 05, 2019
farming campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe.
Slashing pesticide use, along with ecologically-based farming, will help to halt or reverse the decline in insect populations, which are important for pollinating plants. In addition, four million small farms disappeared between 2005 and 2016 in the EU and have since been replaced by large agroindustrial businesses exacerbating the crisis even further, the scientists say.
Bee-keepers face an existential threat due to the increasingly limited