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Field ’schools’ help farmers become sustainable

July 24, 2007 – 3:28 am

The schools helped farmers control pests like mosquitoes
Sahar Majid
16 July 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
Empowering farmers to reduce mosquito populations and to use less pesticide will reduce malaria and other vector-borne diseases, according to a research paper published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO) this month (July).
Vector-borne diseases, such as malaria and dengue fever, are [...]

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Pacific Salmon at Risk from Pesticides

July 4, 2007 – 5:06 am

EarthJustice
Fishermen and public health groups push for protections
June 20, 2007
Seattle, WA — The federal government continues to allow toxic pesticides to poison endangered and threatened salmon and steelhead without complying with its legal duties and federal court direction to protect these species from such poisonings. Despite the passage of almost five years since the first [...]

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