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A coalition of French environmental organisations on Thursday accused the French state of negligence in regulating the use of pesticides. A final ruling will be handed down by the Paris administrative court on 15 June.

The Odisha government has constituted a ‘Landrace Varietal Release Committee (LVRC)’ for the release of traditional millet varieties as certified seed, the first State to develop a protocol for the release of millets landraces.

As opening prices from the country's major milk processors were slowly released over the past two weeks, news they have slashed offers to farmers have sent sour waves of anger rippling through the industry.

Australia's northern cattle traders have reacted with anger at the federal government's offer to end the industry's class action.

Exclusive: The same studies were submitted to US regulators and some are relevant to safety levels, the researchers say

Consumption-based accounting accounts for impacts at the point of consumption, attributing all the social and environmental impacts that occurred during production and trade to the final products and to the eventual consumers. That is, the approach urges the consumer to accept responsibility for the embodied or ‘virtual’ impacts of the…

Dairy farmers who were part of a class action over slashed milk payments in 2016 estimate they will get about 10 per cent of what they lost.

Hemp advocates hail the much-maligned crop as the billion-dollar saviour to Victoria's ailing timber industry, but politicians are concerned the industry could pave the way to legalising cannabis.