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Should You Buy Organic?

Should You Buy Organic?

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To start with, the way that organic food is produced is much more beneficial to the environment. In conventional farming, hundreds of toxic chemicals are used to ward off pests, ...

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The Rising Tide of Antibiotic Resistance

The Rising Tide of Antibiotic Resistance

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Discovered less than a century ago, antibiotics are essential to the survival of human race, allowing for the treatment of many diseases previously regarded as fatal. They also ...

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Strengthening Global Health

Strengthening Global Health

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Neem based medications are playing an increasingly important role in fighting infection across the agriculture and healthcare sectors. Neem sourced products are being investigated ...

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Antibiotic Resistance Infographic

Antibiotic Resistance Infographic

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One of the greatest threats to global health today, antibiotic resistance causes 700,000 deaths per year because it is so often prescribed as the effective prevention and ...

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Rising Demand For Forest Carbon Offsets

Rising Demand For Forest Carbon Offsets

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At the end of 2013, 26.5m hectares of forest plantations were supported by carbon finance, according to NGO Forest Trends, with $212 million injected into the sector during the ...

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A Leader in Carbon Offsetting

A Leader in Carbon Offsetting

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One of the more practical and achievable ways to cleanse our environment and ensure an equitable future is to lock up, or sequester, more carbon from the atmosphere through the ...

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The Organic Market Infographic

The Organic Market Infographic

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Organic products provide a sustainable solution in feeding an ever increasing population and therefore have drastically increased in popularity over the last few years. The ...

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Neem Products on the Market

Neem Products on the Market

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Neem-sourced products are offered by an increasing number of health and beauty suppliers, including L’Oréal – the world’s largest cosmetics company. Other well know brands ...

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Innovations in Neem Research

Innovations in Neem Research

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A tree with mul­ti­ple ben­e­fi­cial prop­er­ties, neem-based solutions are play­ing an increasingly important role in natural medical care. Research studies have shown that: ...

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The Life of Neem Infographic

The Life of Neem Infographic

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The neem tree (Azadirachta Indica) is an evergreen in the Meliaceae (mahogany) family, celebrated for its remarkable healing properties as far back as 5,000BCE by the Harappa and ...

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The Tide Turns Against Synthetics – Legislative Moves to Reverse the Damage

The Tide Turns Against Synthetics – Legislative Moves to Reverse the Damage

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Making agriculture greener and more efficient will be achieved by new legislation supporting the use of natural resources that tackle climate change, safeguard biodiversity and ...

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Neem Cake – An Organic Byproduct that Nourishes the Soil

Neem Cake – An Organic Byproduct that Nourishes the Soil

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Neem cake is a product of the left over neem seed kernels that remain after extracting neem oil from the seeds. It is mainly used as a fertilizer, but has properties of a ...

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Azadirachtin – The Organic Alternative for Crop Protection

Azadirachtin – The Organic Alternative for Crop Protection

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Neem offers an inexpensive and non-toxic alternative to a number of synthetic pesticides because of azadirachtin. Azadirachtin is the wonder compound found in neem with which ...

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Synthetic vs Organic Crop Care

Synthetic vs Organic Crop Care

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With mankind’s pervasive use of synthetic and toxic pesticides in agriculture, organic products are urgently needed for their positive environmental impact. Neem is becoming ...

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Push-Pull Factors for Organics

Push-Pull Factors for Organics

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Organic food is the only sustainable solution to feed an ever increasing population. Conventional agricultural practices and non-organic food risk further stress on our ...

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Fertilizers – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Fertilizers – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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The use of synthetic fertilizers can benefit plant growth and help to achieve optimal yields, but their excessive use is a danger to society. They can negatively affect public ...

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Financial Impact of Synthetic Pesticides in the US, 2014

Financial Impact of Synthetic Pesticides in the US, 2014

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A synthetic pesticide is a poisonous chemical or mixture that is used to prevent, repel, or kill insects, weeds and fungi. While these synthetic pesticides can aid farmers in ...

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Synthetic Pesticides: Friend or Foe?

Synthetic Pesticides: Friend or Foe?

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Extensive synthetic pesticide use contributed to crop yields increasing by 90% worldwide between 1960-1990. While synthetic pesticides aid farmers by preventing crop losses, ...

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The Green Revolution and Why We Need A New One

The Green Revolution and Why We Need A New One

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Population growth is unrelenting – The 40% increase in our population expected by 2050 will require the production of 70% more food and 100% more protein. At the same time: ...

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Forecast Deaths Attributable to Antibiotic Resistance

Forecast Deaths Attributable to Antibiotic Resistance

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One of the greatest threats to global health today, antibiotic resistance causes 700,000 deaths per year by comprising the effective prevention and treatment of an ever increasing ...

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Health Risks Associated with Pesticides

Health Risks Associated with Pesticides

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As synthetic pesticides end up virtually everywhere due to environmental contamination, their pervasive use in agriculture has led to a variety of health problems.

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Neem as a Biopesticide

Neem as a Biopesticide

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In this infographic, we see the effect that neem biopesticides have on the environment. One of neem’s main active ingredients, azadirachtin, acts as a natural growth regulator and ...

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Rising Goblal Demand for Protein

Rising Goblal Demand for Protein

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Today, 14% of all humans who have ever existed are currently alive. It took 1800 years for the world’s population to reach one billion. Fast-forward 200 years and the human race ...

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What You Eat Could Cost the Earth – Chart

What You Eat Could Cost the Earth – Chart

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We currently use 1.6x the earth's available resources. Unless moves are made to explore sustainability, living on our planet may mean having to make do with less. Farmland ...

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World Population and Arable Land 1996 – 2020 Chart

World Population and Arable Land 1996 – 2020 Chart

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Sustaining the needs of a global population that has tripled in the last century alone is one of the major challenges of modern man. The global population has increased by 45% to ...

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