PAN UK Updates
Pesticide victim, Paul François, confronts Bayer-Monsanto’s CEO
By Deborah Lewis, SumOfUs Paul François and SumofUs activists at the Bayer-Monsanto AGM Every spring, in Germany’s former [...]
Britain’s fourth agricultural revolution: agroecology!
by Stephanie Williamson, Staff Scientist, PAN UK Launched in July 2019, the latest report from the convenors of the RSA’s [...]
London Assembly unanimously adopts Motion to eliminate glyphosate
By Nick Mole, Policy Officer, PAN UK 2019 is proving to be an amazing year for our Pesticide-Free Towns campaign, [...]
The UK battle to define Integrated Pest Management
by Josie Cohen, Head of Policy & Campaigns, PAN UK PAN UK has been campaigning to promote Integrated Pest Management [...]
Dates for the Diary
3rd-9th December 2019: TRAID-sponsored exchange visit to India
PAN-UK, PAN Ethiopia and Obepab (Benin) staff will attend meetings in Nagpur hosted by the Organic Cotton Accelerator and the C&A Foundation, followed by a field visit to see organic cotton programmes run by Pratibha in Indore.
12th-13th December 2019: Steering Committee meeting of the Africa ChemObs project
PAN UK’s Sheila Willis will attend the meeting in order to present new guidance materials to the nine participating countries and to elicit feedback. The materials are designed to help national authorities to identify which chemicals and polluted sites pose the highest risk to human health and environment. Another NGO, Pure Earth, is also partnering in the project in order to help national authorities to estimate the financial cost of key pollutants, including pesticides, due to their impacts on health. Further information here.
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