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When Worlds Collide #78: Homicide by Pesticides: Can we escape?
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday broadsheet newspaper on 11 August 2013 Everybody lives downstream of somebody else! That was the core message in a column I wrote a year ago (26 August 2012) … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biodiversity, Communicating Development, Documentary Film, Documentary films, Education, Environment, Environmental management, Environmental policy, Green Economy, Public health, Sri Lanka, Sustainable Development, Water
Tagged agrochemicals, Badulla, Bangkok, Bhutan, chronic kidney failure, CKDu, Consumer Protection, Dr Bhichit Rattakul, Dr Kong Luen "K.L." Heong, Everybody lives downstream, Fertiliser subsidy, HARTI, Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute, Homicide by Pesticides, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Lanka Ministry of Agriculture, M A C S Bandara, M M M Aheeyar, M T Padmajani, Nuwara Eliya, organic food, Pesticides, Registrar of Pesticides, Si Moom Wong market Bangkok, Toxic Trail, vegetable and potato farmers, WHO, World Health Organisation
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