Modern industrial agriculture is fundamentally unsustainable. It relies on harmful pesticides, synthetic agrochemicals, and large scale

This May, in Geneva, Switzerland, the Conference of Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants adopted the decision to list chlorpyrifos in Annex A of the Convention with time-limited specific exemptions, thereby agreeing to the global elimination of uses of this Highly Hazardous

One of my favorite places to walk in the woods is Backbone State Park in Iowa. The good earth opens up, showing its bones in places—thus making it a difficult place for humans to till and plant. Often, when I walk there, I contemplate why

For forty years, PAN has organized alongside those most harmed by the use of toxic pesticides. Together with farmers, farmworkers, rural communities, Indigenous peoples, and countless others, we have fought—and continue to fight—for a healthier and more just food system. We work to end reliance

One of the stories that is frequently told to, and sometimes by, farmers is that growing

Global food systems took center stage at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)