The energy required to produce all of the glyphosate used worldwide in 2014 was as much as the yearly energy needed to power 6.25 million cars. That’s one of the striking findings from “Pesticides and Climate Change: A Vicious Cycle,” a first-of-its-kind report from the Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) detailing how these two environmental problems interact to make our food system less just and resilient. “We found essentially that climate change impacts are predicted to make pest pressures worse and make pesticides less effective, ultimately increasing pesticide use due to climate change, while at the same time pesticides release greenhouse gas emissions,” PANNA organizing co-director and report co-author Asha Sharma told EcoWatch in an interview. EcoWatch

 

 

In India, the government authorised commercial cultivation of GMO Bt cotton varieties in 2002 and 2006, but according to the UN COMTRADE database, which aggregates detailed global annual and monthly trade statistics, Indian imports of cotton from China increased massively after the authorisations. Ijaz Ahmad Rao on Twitter @IjazAhmadRao

 

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