Alarmed by the accelerating decline in biodiversity and the disappearance of small farms in the EU (4 million between 2005 and 2016), an NGO group launched a campaign on Wednesday, 31 July, to stop the collapse of nature and promote sustainable agriculture in the EU.
To this end, these NGOs submitted a European citizens’ initiative (ECI) proposal to the European Commission on the same day—a proposal calling for new legislative proposals to phase out pesticides, restore...