German Farmers Rail Against Insect Protection Plans By Florian CAZERES
02/10/21 AT 12:50 AM
The German government is set to unveil legislation on Wednesday to halt a dramatic decline in insect populations, but farmers are up in arms over measures they say threaten their livelihoods.
Hundreds of farmers drove their tractors into central Berlin on Tuesday, braving snow and frosty temperatures, to protest against the government s insect protection draft law. No farmers, no food, no future read a sign fixed to one tractor near the city s famed Brandenburg Gate. We are here, talk to us read another.
The policy package, two years in the making, aims to restrict the use of pesticides on German agricultural land to save insects, whose numbers have drastically fallen across Europe in recent decades.
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Sputnik International
1/22/2021
HAMBURG, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Agriculture ministers from more
than 70 countries urged governments to keep world food trade
open to ensure food supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic, a
communique after a virtual meeting on Friday said.
The meeting was part of the Global Forum for Food and
Agriculture conference in Berlin and the communique said that
despite COVID-19, global food supply and international markets
have been relatively stable.
But food export restrictions imposed by some countries
during the pandemic should have time limits, it said. We will seek to minimise the risks to food security caused
by measures to combat COVID-19 by keeping trade and markets open