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Eco-Economy Indicators: WATER RESOURCES - World's Water Resources Face Mounting Pressure
Amu Darya, once the largest tributary of the Aral Sea, is diverted to irrigate the cotton fields of Central Asia. The Colorado’s flow is depleted by southwestern farmers and thirsty cities ...
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NMPIF Other 2
Many types of fields exist from alfalfa fields which may support large numbers of birds to cotton fields which are generally ... fields close to northern streams Overall Habitat Strategies: Agricultural Fields Leave unmowed, unmanaged, vegetative borders around agricultural fields. Where possible, maintain native grassland adjacent to fields and on edges of fields. Delay mowing of alfalfa fields ...
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EcoNews, Serving the Vision of a Sustainable Vancouver Island
Then there was organic cotton clothing, natural pharmaceuticals, rice, tea and honey, and a company to package the goods, which ... protection for cotton, which led to a ban on cotton crop-dusting throughout Egypt. By 2000, pesticide use on EgyptÂ’s cotton fields had fallen by over 90%, and 80% of EgyptÂ’s cotton was ...
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ECNT » Current Campaigns » Land Clearing » Ord River
Landclearing » Overview » NT Legislation » Daly River » Ord River » Tiwi Islands GM Cotton Genetically modified (GM) cotton is again being proposed for widespread cultivation across northern Australia . Multi- ... experiment in pest-resistant genetically modified crops. Plagues of mirids are infesting the cotton fields of 5 million Chinese farmers whose crops are modified to resist the bollworm ...
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EJF: TESCO TO BAN UZBEK COTTON IN RESPONSE TO CHILD LABOUR ABUSES
White Gold: the true cost of cotton' and the subsequent BBC Newsnight investigation that exposed the continued use of state-sponsored child labour in Uzbek cotton fields. Cotton production in the Central-Asian Republic ... +S, Debenhams and Matalan have also announced a ban on cotton sourced from Uzbekistan. It is another success for EJF's Cotton Campaign which works to bring an end to the human ...
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EJF: Why We Need to Clean Up Cotton
US50 cents. In West Africa, children are trafficked to work in cotton fields. Learn more about Child Labour and Cotton Pesticides and Cotton Cotton grows on 2.4% of the world's arable land, yet ... Pesticides and Cotton Water and Cotton Cotton is the world's thirstiest crop -- six pints of water are needed to produce one cotton bud. In Central Asia the demand for water to irrigate cotton fields has ...
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Genetic Engineering - Cotton
Mass Deaths in Sheep Grazing on Bt Cotton At least 1 800 sheep reported dead from severe toxicity after grazing on Bt cotton fields in just four villages in Andhra Pradesh ... 2005 Organic Cotton Beats Bt Cotton in India Organic cotton is incomparably superior to genetically modified Bt cotton Rhea Gala 5th August 2005 India's Bt Cotton Fraud Monsanto rides roughshod over Indian cotton farmers ...
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Mass Deaths in Sheep Grazing on Bt Cotton
February and March 2006. In Maadipalli village Asanparthi mandal, there are 20 households rearing some 3 000 sheep, and nearly 400 died due to grazing on Bt-cotton fields ... on the Bt cotton fields, saying the deaths could be due to the Bt cotton, and prescribed some ... cotton fields continuously, identical symptoms and death within 5-7 days of grazing exclusively on Bt cotton ...
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Monsanto's Gene-Altered Cotton in Asia Developing Pest Resistance from Mealy Bugs & Bollworms
The mealy bug has entered Vidarbha cotton fields ... cotton fields through the Bt cottonseed. Now when the cotton plants have died, the mealy bug is shifting to nearby plants. By mid June, farmers will go for the new cotton ...
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`We Need a Moratorium on Bt Cotton and New GM Testing`
Family Farmers Providing Organic Dairy `We Need a Moratorium on Bt Cotton and New GM Testing` By Latha Jishnu Business Standard, India, July ... a large number of sheep dying after feeding on the Bt cotton plants. GEAC claims that the AP government had blamed these ... harvested or intact Bt cotton plants and has warned shepherds to not allow their animals to graze on Bt cotton fields in the interim. Full ...
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