These are some of the organizations with which PANNA collaborates on OP-related issues.
Beyond Pesticides works with allies in protecting public health and the environment to lead the transition to a world free of toxic pesticides. The founders, who established Beyond Pesticides as a nonprofit membership organization in 1981, felt that without the existence of such an organized, national network, local, state and national pesticide policy would become, under chemical industry pressure, increasingly unresponsive to public health and environmental concerns.
California Rural Legal Assistance
Since 1965, CRLA has raised its powerful voice in the courtrooms, in the classrooms, in the fields, and in the legislative halls of California. We have shown farm workers and other poor people that the law can be a friend and that those responsible for enforcing the laws can and should be called to account.
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation (CRLAF)
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation (CRLAF) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing advocacy and educational assistance to California's farm workers and other rural poor to improve social, health and economic conditions. CRLAF project areas include citizenship, environmental justice, pesticides and work safety, rural health, labor rights and housing. Work of the CRLAF Pesticide and Work Safety Project includes oversight on pesticide and work health policy development, implementation and enforcement and advocacy for improved pesticide exposure protections for workers including ending use of the most hazardous pesticides.
Californians for Pesticide Reform (CPR)
CPR is a statewide coalition of over 180 groups that work together to build a strong and diverse coalition of organizations and individuals speaking out about the dangers that pesticides pose to public health and the viability of alternatives by increasing public understanding of pesticide use and health risks associated with pesticides, and the failure of the state's regulatory system to protect us from these hazards. CPR also promotes of the use of alternatives to pesticides in agricultural, forest and urban settings and opposes genetically engineered pest control applications where they pose unknown effects on health and the environment.
Earth Justice is a non-profit public interest law firm dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment. We bring about far-reaching change by enforcing and strengthening environmental laws on behalf of hundreds of organizations and communities.
Farmworker Association of Florida
The Farmworker Association of Florida, Inc. (FWAF) is a membership organization of over 6,330 farmworker families from predominately Mexican, Haitian, Afro-American, Guatemalan and Salvadoran communities, which was begun in 1983 and incorporated in May, 1986. The goal is to build a strong multi-racial economically viable organization of farmworkers in Florida empowering farmworkers to respond to and gain control over the social, political, economic, and workplace issues that affect their lives. An elected Board of Directors sets policy, guarantees implementation of work plans, and monitors finances.
Farmworker Health and Safety Institute
The Farmworker Health and Safety Institute (FHSI) is a unique consortium of three community-based farmworker organizations that work with farmworkers along the Eastern Migrant Stream, the U.S.-Mexico Border and in the Caribbean. The member groups include El Comité de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agrícolas (CATA), the Farmworker Association of Florida (FWAF), and the Border Agricultural Workers Project (BAWP). The three community-based farmworker member groups of the Institute have more than fifty years of combined experience working with farmworkers. One of the main goals of the Institute is to provide technical assistance and leadership development to farmworkers through their organizations so that they can better protect themselves from pesticide exposure.
For twenty-five years, Farmworker Justice, Inc. has been helping empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their wages and working conditions, labor and immigration policy, health and safety, and access to justice.
Together with farm workers and their families, Farm Worker Pesticide Project (FWPP) works to reduce and eliminate their exposures to pesticides. To that end, FWPP provides resources and information to farm workers and their advocates about pesticides; unites diverse groups and individuals behind a joint strategy to address the far worker pesticide problem; and participates in that strategy as an advocate, organizer, educator, and researcher.
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy promotes resilient family farms, rural communities and ecosystems around the world through research and education, science and technology, and advocacy.
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA), formed in 1971, is the oldest and largest state organic organization in the country. The purpose of the Association is to help farmers and gardeners grow organic food, protect the environment, recycle natural resources, increase local food production, support rural communities, and illuminate for consumers the connection between healthful food and environmentally sound growing practices.
Natural Resources Defense Council
Works to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life -- air, land and water -- and to defend endangered natural places. Seeks to establish sustainability and good stewardship of the Earth as central ethical imperatives of human society. NRDC affirms the integral place of human beings in the environment. Striving to protect nature in ways that advance the long-term welfare of present and future generations. Ultimately, NRDC strives to help create a new way of life for humankind, one that can be sustained indefinitely without fouling or depleting the resources that support all life on Earth.
Organic Farming Research Foundation
The Organic Farming Research Foundation is a non-profit whose mission is to sponsor research related to organic farming practices, to disseminate research results to organic farmers and to growers interested in adopting organic production systems, and to educate the public and decision-makers about organic farming issues.
The United Farm Workers (UFW) works to provide farm workers and other working people with the inspiration and tools to share in society's bounty. The UFW emphasizes integrity, a si se puede attitude, innovation, non-violence, and empowerment. They believe in doing the right thing even when no one is looking, the embodiment of a personal and organizational spirit that promotes confidence, courage and risk taking, the active pursuit of new ideas, engaging in disciplined action, have a fundamental belief in and respect for people.