By supporting good legislation, opposing bad legislation, and building up a network of supporting organizations, it is our hope that we can collectively move the needle on farmworker rights in the right direction.
By supporting good legislation, opposing bad legislation, and building up a network of supporting organizations, it is our hope that we can collectively move the needle on farmworker rights in the right direction.
Watch and listen as two experienced farmers share stories and practical approaches for small-scale, diversified farms that use the principles of agroecology. This discussion may provide you with ideas that small farms where you live can adapt and thrive.
After many long days of negotiations, the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) made a historic move for safer food and farming by passing a resolution on highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) that calls for action to globally phase out the use of the world’s most toxic pesticides by 2035. Tied with this resolution was the passing of a mandate for UNEP to implement this commitment by forming the Global Alliance on HHPs.
PFAS are persistent and have the potential to affect human health for many years. Some pesticides have PFAS in their formulations and others leach PFAS from their containers.
In a historic move for safer food and farming, the U.N. Environment Assembly (UNEA) today called for action by 2035 to eliminate the use of the world’s most toxic pesticides globally. Called highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs), these chemicals are known to cause significant environmental damage and pose serious threats to health.
A February 6 court decision directed that the use of dicamba be halted for over-the-top (OTT) applications on soybeans and cotton. However, the EPA is allowing the use of existing stock of dicamba under the old use-label guidelines for the 2024 growing season.
It is difficult to understand the dangers chlorpyrifos poses to those who are regularly exposed to it, until you have personal experience. Chlorpyrifos is dangerous and it drifts easily and residue on our food is dangerous for children. This is why it is important for
PAN opposes the decision by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse EPA’s ban on the neurotoxic pesticide Chlorpyrifos, an insecticide associated with serious neurological damage in humans, with children being most at risk.
There was a tremendous amount of collective effort behind the scenes that went into the process of AB 652 becoming law. This work can serve as a model for future changes to California pesticide policy.
Kayla Nichols introduces herself to PAN’s supporters. She is PAN’s new Communications Director and we welcome her to the team.
Global chemicals experts from around the world gathered in Rome this week where they decided that chlorpyrifos is likely, as a result of its long-range environmental transport, to lead to significant adverse human health and/or environmental effects, such that global action is warranted.