PAN UK Updates
The heart-breaking stories of families affected by pesticide poisoning
Moise and Celestine shared the tragic story of their son dying from pesticide poisoning. Credit PAN UK by Sheila Willis, Head of International Programmes, PAN UK Last November, I was collecting data [...]
Tackling weeds without the use of pesticides
By Stuart Fraser, Kersten UK Hello readers of the PAN UK blog, I work for a company called Kersten UK. Our business specialises in chemical-free integrated weed management and we’d love to share some of [...]
Bees, beets and obesity
by Nick Mole, Policy Officer, PAN UK UPDATE (26th Oct 2020): FRANCE AND NEONICOTINOIDS There are mixed messages coming from France about the continued use of neonicotinoid insecticides. On the [...]
Does farm pesticide use harm UK birds?
by Dave Goulson, Professor of Biology, University of Sussex The charity, Songbird Survival, are funding two PhD students in my lab at Sussex University, Priyesha Vijendra and Cannelle Tassin de Montaigu, to investigate whether pesticides [...]
Pandemic impacts on cotton farmers in Ethiopia
by Sheila Willis, Head of International Programmes, PAN UK According to an April 2020 forecast by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), ‘global trade volumes are expected to fall by between 13% and 32% in [...]
Unlocking the UK food system
by Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City University of London and author of Feeding Britain It is trite to say that Covid-19 has been a wake-up call, not because it is not true, [...]
New report: Reversing the decline of insects
We're proud to support The Wildlife Trusts, and PAN UK trustee, Professor Dave Goulson, on the launch today of a new report Reversing the Decline in Insects. The report comes at a critical time for [...]
Blurring the lines
How big business uses the conspiracy playbook to avoid regulation (written by Nick Mole, Policy Officer, PAN UK) These are indeed very strange times we find ourselves in. Normal everyday lives have been put on [...]
Pesticide-Free Towns: Campaigning in lockdown
Background While most of the world is on hold, councils across the UK are still carrying out some of their work, including weed control. That means, unfortunately, that many are still spraying herbicides [...]