Neonicotinoid based pesticides have been implicated in the alarming deaths of bees and other pollinators that are so crucial to pollination and biodiversity in the UK as a whole. It is not just agricultural products that they are used in but also a number of products aimed at the domestic home and garden market. The following is a list of products currently approved for use in the UK that may be available to purchase by the general public.

PAN UK has launched a one year project, funded by TRAID, to help small scale cotton farmers in the Djidja, Setto and Sinendé regions of Benin in West Africa to reap the economic, health and environmental benefits of sustainable organic cotton production. 

PAN UK has published a series of information fact sheets on all aspects of pesticides and their effects on bees and other pollinators. The fact sheets look at a range of topics including neonicotonoids and why they are so potentially harmful to bees, how the over use of herbicides is reducing forage for bees and pollinators in the UK, the problems with the current risk assessment for neonicotinoids and ways in which farmers can replace the use of neonicotonoids with non chemical methods.