Our Work

PAN brings our strengths in grassroots science, movement building, and strategic communications to each of our areas of focus such as pesticides’ impacts on climate and health, food and farming systems, and agroecology. Explore our current work below, and find out how you—and your community—can get involved. 

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Agroecology

PAN is working to build a vision of Iowa that embraces the principles of agroecology – acknowledging, learning about, accepting, and promoting

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Pesticides & Climate

We already see the impacts of climate change on agriculture. As monoculture farms get bigger and bigger, they must increase the amount

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Pesticides & Health

Because our agrifood systems currently rely on massive amounts of pesticides in order to be productive and efficient, farmworkers, communities of color,

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Food & Farming

Today’s food and farming systems do more to feed the pockets of billion-dollar corporations than they do to feed people. Centralized, agrichemical-intensive,

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Where We Work

PAN works at the state, federal, and international level or organize, advocate, and communicate. We work with grassroots groups, national and international

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How We Work

We are a small organization with a nimble strategy comprised of three prongs: grassroots science, strategic communications, and organizing.