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Food Security & Pesticide Action

 

Overview

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Pesticides are hazardous to human health and the environment, undermine local and global food security  and threaten agricultural biodiversity.

Yet these pervasive chemicals are aggressively promoted by multinational corporations, government agencies, and other players in this more than $35 billion a year industry. Source: Pesticide Action Network

 

 

 

 

Related Links

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Pesticides

Pesticide Action Network  - A nonprofit organization that advocates adoption of ecologically sound practices in place of pesticide use.

PAN Pesticides Database - Provides up-to-date toxicity and regulatory information for pesticides via a searchable database.

Californians for Pesticide Reform - Californians for Pesticide Reform is a coalition of over 160 public interest groups dedicated to protecting human health and the environment from the dangers of pesticide use.

Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program - Voluntary, public/private program to reduce risks from the use of pesticides.

Rachel Carson Council - Clearinghouse and library with information at both scientific and layperson levels on pesticide-related issues.

Beyond Pesticides - Provides the public with useful information on pesticides and alternatives to their use.

Food Security

Community Food Security Coalition - Food security programs confront hunger and poverty with creative community-based solutions that feed people today while creating the means for permanent solutions to hunger and poor nutrition.

Food First: Institute for Food and Development Policy - Purpose is to eliminate the injustices that cause hunger.

Center for Food and Justice - Urban & Environmental Policy Institute

Toward Sustainable Food Security - Fourteen papers reviewing key issues and experiences.

International Food Security Treaty - Campaign to virtually eliminate chronic and acute hunger.

The Ag Observatory - A Global Resource Center for Food and Agriculture Policy.

PANNA - Hunger and food security resources.

 

In-Depth

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Pesticide Wars  (Tom Paine) - When agriculture and public health collide

 

 

Getting On Our Nerves  (ENN) - The same herbicides and pesticides many people trust enough to spray on their gardens and crops have been increasingly linked to the onset of Parkinson’s Disease.

 

 

The Pesticide Wars (Working for Change) - Most people assume public health officials are working diligently to solve these mysterious afflictions.

 

 

We're Poisoning Our Children (Common Dreams) - Today's produce is full of toxic residue and our children are most at risk.

 

 

 

 

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