Whole Foods joins the Equitable Food Initiative
Can the marketplace help reform the food system and bring justice to farmworkers? Yes it can. And it just did!
Mar 18, 2016
Margaret Reeves
Yes! The DARK Act is done
Mar 18, 2016
Pesticide Actio...
Scientific integrity? Yes, please.
Late last year, a respected scientist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) filed a whistleblower compaint, claiming scientific suppression of his research on pesticides and pollinators. Today, PAN and our supporters helped deliver comments to USDA from more than 140,000 concerned individuals, calling on the agency to respect and support scientific integrity.
Mar 10, 2016
Sara Knight
People power in the San Joaquin Valley
There’s a lot of power in the San Joaquin Valley. It's a hub for industrial agriculture interests, no doubt, as they've grown in size and scale. But there’s also power in the communities that are organizing to reclaim and protect shared water, soil and farmland.
Mar 10, 2016
Paul Towers
EU puts the brakes on Monsanto's RoundUp
In a surprise move earlier this week, European officials put a hold on continued use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's flagship herbicide RoundUp. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now well into its seventh year of reviewing the controversial chemical.
The European delay comes in the face of strong opposition to the proposed 15-year re-licensing agreement from Italy, France, Sweden and the Netherlands.
Mar 9, 2016
Pesticide Actio...
Monsanto's dream bill is back
Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) is planning to introduce a bill that would block state rights to label genetically engineered (GE) foods.
Feb 25, 2016
Pesticide Actio...
Report: Multiple pesticides, magnified harms
A new report by scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) reminds us that we have a lot to learn about the risks of exposure to multiple pesticides at a time. Hmmmm. "Exposure to multiple pesticides at a time" — isn't that what we face in the real world? Yes, it is. Read on.
Feb 18, 2016
Emily Marquez
A tale of corporate capture in Minnesota
What do you call it when the nation’s largest potato company, with strong ties to the pesticide industry, digs in its deep pockets to dodge accountability for its impacts on local communities? Here at PAN we call it “corporate capture” — the outsize influence that pesticide companies and other corporate powerholders in our food system have over the agencies that are meant to regulate them.
Feb 18, 2016
Lex Horan
Guest blog: La via campesina, building an international movement for food & seed sovereignty
Who we are fighting for is every single peasant farmer – more than 200 million – on the planet. People are eager to join hands in building a global voice.
Feb 9, 2016
Elizabeth Mpofu
Going organic in India
What does it take to turn 75,000 hectares of farmland organic? Well, people in the state of Sikkim can now speak to that. A mountainous region in eastern India, Sikkim recently became the first state in that country to go fully organic.
Feb 3, 2016
Medha Chandra