Silent Spring (3/3): What are the prospects for pesticide policy?

If we look at biodiversity loss, time is really running out.
Especially the young generation is complaining about this. Why are
farmers not adapting quickly enough? And what can be done to
mitigate the biodiversity and climate crises that are exacerbated
by industrialized agriculture? The agricultural sector in Europe is
highly subsidized. But is the money from the Common Agricultural
Policy (CAP) being used wisely? Will the European Commission
succeed in initiating a trend reversal or is one catastrophe – the
war in Ukraine – being played off against the other? A Podcast
with: • Ariel Brunner - Head of EU Policy „BirdLife Europe“,
Brussels, Belgium • Silvia Bender - State Secretary at the Federal
Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), Berlin, Germany • Dr. Jörn
Wogram - Director of the Pesticides Department of the Federal
Environment Agency (UBA), Dessau, Germany • Bernhard Krüsken -
Secretary General of the German Farmers' Association, DBV, Berlin
Germany • Martin Häusling - MdEP Greens, Brussels, Belgium • Nina
Holland - Researcher at Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO),
Brussels, Belgium • Marilda Dhaskali - EU Agriculture &
Bioenergy Policy Officer, BirdLife Europe and Central Asia,
Brussels, Belgium Shownotes: Original research; The conducted
interviews and original sound recordings come from Europe (Berlin,
Brussels and the region of Brandenburg). Open Letter to the EU
Commission on Pesticide Reduction and Farm to Fork (F2F)
strategy:https://www.birdlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Joint-open-letter_F…
“Sustainable Use Regulation:
https://food.ec.europa.eu/plants/pesticides/sustainable-use-pesticides_…
Study: Federal Environment Agendy (UBA) sees room for improvement
to achieve the goals set in the European Green Deal:
https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/press/pressinformation/eu-regulation-…
  This podcast is an English adaptation of the German podcast
series "Stummer Frühling" published in December 2022.