PAN UK Updates
Are big brands doing enough to support sustainable cotton farmers?
Sustainable Cotton Ranking 2020 Published by PAN UK, Solidaridad and WWF, the Sustainable Cotton Ranking 2020 reveals significant progress by big brands toward more sustainable cotton. But also that the divide is growing between companies that [...]
2020: A massive year for UK pesticides
by Josie Cohen, Head of Policy & Campaigns, PAN UK I joined PAN UK in June 2017 to help ensure that UK pesticide standards didn’t drop as a result of Brexit. There was a [...]
UK supermarkets take steps to tackle pesticides
But there's still a long way to go... By Hannah Conway, Assistant Campaigner, PAN UK In November 2019, we launched a campaign calling on UK supermarkets to do more to protect human health and the [...]
Pesticides approved without proper testing
A new report from Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) has found that EU officials have approved the use of a number of pesticides (typically giving them a 10-year license) without testing their impact on [...]
In defence of Bülent Şık
Today, PAN UK signed the following letter in support of Dr Bülent Şık, calling for his acquittal and the right to freedom of speech in his endeavour to protect and promote public health: We are [...]
PAN UK is closing in solidarity with young climate strikers
On Friday, 20th September, we will be closing our Brighton office to join the global strike for climate and biodiversity. Industrial agriculture is a key driver of climate change for a number of reasons. Land that [...]
Is organic banana production viable?
By Paul Lievens, Communications & Policy Officer, Banana Link "Twenty or thirty years ago, people who are growing organic – they are crazy people! To grow organic is to think different. About the workers, [...]
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 capital city Bonn, Bayer-Monsanto’s top executives, shareholders and CEO meet for the chemical giant's annual [...]
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 Food, Farming & Countryside Commission, entitled Our Future in the Land, could have been yet [...]