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A farmworker wearing a straw hat bends over in a field to harvest large leafy plants. The sun beats over their back.

National Farmworker Awareness Week: Reflecting on Decades of Advocacy

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.

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.

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Encouragement for a New Year

We enter another year where all of us who work at PAN and everyone who works as partners in the effort to build a better, healthier, and more equitable food and farming system must take a deep breath.

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What’s driving pesticide use? Big money.

Roundup and other glyphosate products are the most widely used herbicides in the US. Altogether, we are looking at application numbers that approach 300 million pounds per year, with sales to the tune of $2.3 billion in 2020 alone.

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Hawai’i Updates: December 2022

The relationship to the land, or ‘Āina, is at the core of our being. The food we grow does more for us than sustaining our bodies, it also “feeds” us mentally and spiritually.

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