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December 3rd marks the global No Pesticide Use Day, dedicated to the memory of the 1984 Bhopal chemical disaster in India which killed thousands and injured hundred of thousands of people. To commemorate this day, and to move towards a future where communities do not have to suffer fr

On the occasion of the Global No Pesticide Day (December 3rd), PAN Africa organized a radio talk show at the Bambilor FM radio station in the Niayes region of Dakar Senegal. The Niayes region is the centre of intensive market gardening with a high degree of pesticide use. The theme of

On World Malaria Day, April 25, 2016, Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Africa renews its support for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, which is a key actor in identifying safe malaria control methods not reliant on DDT. PAN Africa also reaffirms its position aga

Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Africa is organizing a training workshop in agroecology techniques from May 23 to 27 2016 at Mbawane (Niayes), Senegal. This training has several short and long term goals. The main objective is to enhance the knowledge of participants about agro-ecology

Greengrants the Global Fund (GGF) is a Foundation based in the United States. It’s provide small grants to small organizations of civil society in the South to carry out activities in the field of Environment and Sustainable Development. For several years, Pesticide Action Network adv

Within the framework of the “Local community training and public information on POPs, in Burkina Faso, mail, Senegal and Togo” project, PAN Africa and Green Cross Swiss (GCCH) signed an agreement in May 2016. In the agreement, Green Cross Swiss (GCCH) commits its self to support finan

Today Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International released an updated List of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs). The expanded list, which was first published in 2009, now includes 297 chemicals, many still in widespread use in both industrialized countries and the Global South. Comp

Geneva, Switzerland – Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International welcomes the release today of the report on the use of agricultural pesticides by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food. Special Rapporteur Hilal Elver today presented her report to the 34th

December 3 marks “the world pesticide free day” in the memory of the disaster that occurred in a chemical pesticide factory in Bhopal (India). The disaster occurred on December 3 1984, killing thousands with hundreds of thousands people injured. To commemorate this day, an