NEW Pesticides on a Plate
A consumer guide to pesticide issues in the food chain.

This 36pp booklet gives a simple overview for a non-technical audience on what pesticides are and the hazards they pose, with a focus on pesticide residues in food and how to avoid these. It also discusses how farmers and farm workers can be affected, particularly in developing countries, and the costs society pays for pesticide problems.

NEW The Chemical Trap - Stories from African Fields

This 40pp illustrated booklet provides insights into the health, welfare and financial impacts on African smallholders of their dependency on hazardous pesticides, in cash crops and in local food crops. It describes in a non-technical style and format findings from research by NGO partners in Benin, Senegal, Ghana and Ethiopia with farmers growing cotton, vegetables, fruit and staple cereals and legumes. Accompanied with colour photos showing farm families’ living conditions and farming practice, The Chemical Trap also shows that safer, more profitable livelihoods are possible, by promoting farmer training and market opportunities for organic and Integrated Pest Management produce. The booklet is suitable for development education, use in schools or colleges or for the general public.

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NEW 6 Food & Fairness Briefings

PAN UK has published six briefings in the Food & Fairness series, addressing pesticide use issues of relevance to food companies, NGOs, African pesticide regulators and donors. The topics cover:

1. Which Pesticides Are Banned in Europe
2. Pesticide Food and Drink Poisoning in Africa
3. The FAO Pesticide Code of Conduct: New Responsibilities for Food Sector Companies
4. Hidden Costs of Pesticide Use in Africa
5. Pesticides, Immune Suppression and HIV/AIDS
6. Hazardous pesticides and health impacts in Africa
   

NEW Pesticide News Articles

Issue Number 75 - Weaver ants help farmers to capture organic markets

Issue Number 76 - Farmer field schools deliver results in Iran - Bio-intensive pest management reduces pesticide use in India

Issue Number 77 - Senegalese farmers discuss pesticide issues - Web to field to web- a web resource for remote rural areas

Issue Number 78 - Learning lessons from African supply chains - Farmers field schools reap long-term rewards - Book reviews on smallholders in modern supply chains

• Editorial
• Chilean farmworker poisonings (page 16)
• Lives corrupted by agrochemicals (page 17)
• Legal contamination of fruit and vegetables (page 3)
• Austrian NGO’s supermarket pesticide reduction campaign (page 5)
• Dutch supermarket residue campaign (page 6)
• Sustaining Kenyan smallholders in fresh produce markets (page 10)
• European standards affect African growers (page 14)
• Challenges for safer smallholder horticulture in Senegal (page 12)

• Foreign donors help small ACP growers meet European standards (page 16)
• Better health, more wealth: the impacts of farmer training in developing countries (page 18)