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Pesticide Action Network (PAN) North America works to replace hazardous pesticide use with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives. As one of five PAN Regional Centers worldwide, we link local and international consumer, labor, health, environment and agriculture groups into an international citizens' action network. This network challenges the global proliferation of pesticides, defends basic rights to health and environmental quality, and works to insure the transition to a just and viable society.

For media inquiries please contact Paul Towers, Organizing and Media Director: ptowers(at)panna(dot)org, cell: 916.216.1082

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by Dr. Abou Thiam, Director Pesticide Action Network Africa May 2010 With reference to your...

By Dr. Hans Herren and Dr. Marcia Ishii-Eiteman April 22, 2010 The Senate is...

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When researchers want to intentionally create cancerous cells in laboratories, they often use methyl iodide, a chemical that is also a neurotoxin and causes late-term miscarriages. And it kills soil-dwelling organisms -- which is why farmers (...

Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 14:55

The American Beekeeping Federation Conference is in town, and the beekeepers are abuzz about the latest issues: colony collapse disorder, pesticides, and competition from overseas honey producers. We talk with a 50-year beekeeping veteran about...

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 09:09

For the German chemical giant Bayer, neonicotinoid pesticides—synthetic derivatives of nicotine that attack insects' nervous systems—are big business. In 2010, the company reeled in 789 million euros (more than $1 billion) in...

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 09:57

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PAN Newsletters & Magazine

PAN's Year End 2011 newsletter reports on progress to keep the carcinogenic fumigant methyl iodide out of strawberry fields despite the efforts of a corporate juggernaut. We also celebrate World Food Day and provide a link to the many people who uploaded their personal stories to PAN's Tumblr site on how the Big 6 GMO/pesticide corporations affect their lives. It delves in the causes of honey bee die-off (colony collapse disorder), and includes...

Our Fall 2011 PAN newsletter reports on work with several large food companies to push for fairness in the fields by adopting standards that will reduce pesticide use, guarantee workers’ rights and improve working conditions. The issue also tells of more than 6,000 members who wrote personal notes thanking farmers across the country who are growing food without hazardous chemicals, and a Colorado member who organized a flash mob for bees! View...

This Spring 2011 issue of PAN’s member newsletter celebrates a major victory: the neurotoxic insecticide endosulfan was listed for global phaseout under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants! PAN and our allies fought 17 years to get highly hazardous pesticide like endosulfan banned — it marks our 10th victory under the “POPs treaty”. We also report that over 1 million people have joined the campaign to save...

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Reports

Malaria is one of the major global health problems and has a devastating impact on many populations, particularly in Africa. The main tools and strategies currently employed to control malaria are medicines for its prevention and treatment, and chemicals to control the mosquito vectors. Chemical strategies focus on insecticide treated nets and indoor residual spraying. But these chemical applications pose established and suspected risks for human health...

PAN International releases this report during unprecedented and simultaneous disruptions in the major world systems upon which we all depend: climate, ecosystems and economies. These disruptions threaten the livelihoods and lives of many people around the world, and especially those in developing countries. However, this period offers an urgent stimulus for a rethinking of the architecture of our world’s fundamental systems, and for solutions that...

The Syngenta corporation invented the herbicide atrazine and is its primary manufacturer. The corporation is certainly one of atrazine’s most ardent defenders and promoters. One of the most commonly detected pesticides in U.S. ground and surface water, many scientists are increasingly concerned about the human health and ecosystem impacts of atrazine. Atrazine is a known “endocrine disruptor” that is linked to reproductive harm and...

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Factsheets & Briefs

For decades, the distribution and use of hazardous pesticides has been an issue of concern. Since it’s founding in 1982, Pesticide Action Network (PAN) has been the civil society organisation (CSO) most steadily and continuously calling for effective international action towards the elimination of hazardous pesticides. PAN has been one of the key driving forces among non governmental organisations (NGOs) for improving plant protection policies...

Malaria devastates families and communities around the world. This preventable disease kills almost one million people every year, with 80% of the deaths occurring among children in sub- Saharan Africa. The U.S. has increased support for the battle against malaria in recent years, but must do a better job supporting sustainable solutions—approaches that effectively combat malaria without putting human health or the environment at risk. View as...

PAN summarizes the key findings from Agriculture at a Crossroads, the landmark UN report from the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD). More than 400 scientists examined the successes and shortcomings of the world’s food and agricultural systems, and evaluated the impact that public agencies, agricultural research institutions and the private sector have on the well-being of farmers,...

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Conclusiones de la Evaluación Internacional del Papel del Conocimiento, la Ciencia y la Tecnología en el Desarrollo Agrícola (IAASTD) dirigida por la ONU. View as PDF»

La agroecología es la ciencia detrás de la agricultura sostenible. A partir de las ciencias naturales y sociales, la agroecología proporciona el marco para evaluar cuatro propiedades claves de los sistemas agrícolas: productividad, resiliencia, sostenibilidad y equidad. View as PDF»

El cuerpo humano no está diseñado para tolerar los pesticidas sintéticos, sin embargo todos nosotros llevamos dentro del cuerpo una mezcla de sustancias químicas fabricadas con el fifi n de matar insectos, malezas y otras plagas agrícolas y del hogar. Algunos de estos pesticidas circulan dentro de nosotros en concentraciones tan bajas que apenas pueden ser detectadas con los equipos de monitoreo más sofifi...

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