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International Pest Control – July/August 2023 – Vol 65, Nr.4
At a time when many parts of Europe and North America are “boiling” or burning, other parts of the world are submerged under water and the Atlantic to the west of Ireland is suffering a Marine Heatwave classified by NOAA as Category 5 (‘Beyond Extreme’) with sea surface temperatures as high as 4-5°C above average, […]
International Pest Control – May/June 2023 – Vol 65, Nr.3
Europeans could get away with using 71% less land to grow our food if we reduce our consumption of animal products by 50% according to the latest research from WUR. Milk and fish would still be on the menu but beef and pork would disappear. And climate change – about which we have a new […]
International Pest Control – March/April 2023 – Vol 65, Nr.2
With fewer pesticides available – either because they have been withdrawn or banned or because of pest resistance – a new approach based on targeting genes may be both selective and a way of avoiding the build-up of resistance, but we are still a long way from the field! We look at research to silence […]
International Pest Control – January/February 2023 – Vol 65, Nr.1
We seem to lurch from one food crisis to another and we report on the plea from Alvaro Lario, President of the UN’s IFAD for real investment in the worlds’ small scale farmers who produce one third of the world’s food with just 2% of global finance. Twitter is being used to track pests, but […]
International Pest Control – November/December 2022 – Vol 64, Nr.6
Climate Change is very much on the agenda as I write this with COP27 in progress and everyone pessimistic about the outcome – I hope they are wrong! The global food system is responsible for between 21% and 37% of global emissions. In Europe it is only 10% of total emissions but a significant proportion […]
International Pest Control – September/October 2022 – Vol 64, Nr.5
The death of Our Queen – or The Queen as President Macron so eloquently put it – is one of those rare events that you remember by where you were when you heard the news. Its finality provides a moment to reflect – on the nature of integrity, honesty, service, sacrifice, competence, and leadership. Like […]
International Pest Control – July/August 2022 – Vol 64, Nr.4
With no sign of the war in Ukraine coming to an end any time soon and with every chance this could prove to be a long drawn-out war the issue of grain shortages combined with high fuel and fertiliser costs means that any research that suggests we could maintain yields with reduced inputs has to […]
International Pest Control – May/June 2022 – Vol 64, Nr.3
The Governor of the Bank of England is concerned about the level of food price inflation that has been a consequence of the war in the Ukraine. And while food price rises in Europe and the USA may be “apocalyptic” the area of greatest concern is surely the cost of staple foods in the less […]
