Mission

PANNA (Pesticide Action Network North America) works to replace pesticide use with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives. As one of five PAN Regional Centers worldwide, PANNA links local and international consumer, labor, health, environment and agriculture groups into an international citizens' action network. This network challenges the global proliferation of pesticides, defends basic rights to health and environmental quality, and works to insure the transition to a just and viable society.

Issues

Pesticides, Worker safety, Genetically engineered food and fiber, World Bank monitoring, Water pollution, Air pollution, Sustainable agriculture, Food sovereignty

Activities

Research, Pesticide database (www.pesticideinfo.org), Policy analysis, Public education, Community activism resources.

Programs/
Projects

PANNA emphasizes four themes in all of its programs: 1) protecting health, communities and the environment, 2) confronting corporate power and government complicity, 3) promoting sustainable solutions and 4)providing resources for action. Currently PANNA is running programs around such issues as halting the use of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs, which include many pesticides, industrial chemicals and chemical byproducts), advocating non-chemical and least-toxic pest management methods, monitoring the World Bank, and communicating the dangers of genetically engineered foods and the dismal working conditions imposed on California's approximately 600,000 agricultural workers. PANNA also supplies technical, policy, educational and campaign resources to affiliate groups and local community organizations working on the issues we cover. PANNA has a leading role in the large, statewide coalition Californians for Pesticide Reform (CPR). Within CPR, PANNA staff author major studies of pesticide use and policy analysis and work with the California Department of Pesticide Regulation on issues related to farm worker health and safety, enforcement of pesticide regulations, and monitoring of pesticides in air, surface water and groundwater.

Constitutency

General public, policy makers, agricultural workers

Geographical Focus

North America

Staff

23

Volunteers

5-10

Membership Base

5,000, plus 170 affiliate organizations and groups

Publications

PANNA provides the Global Pesticide Campaigner magazine (trimesterly), the Partners Update newsletter, the Pesticide Action Network Updates Service (PANUPS), the extensive PANNA Information Clearinghouse available at the PANNA Web site (www.panna.org), and other information outreach projects.

Annuual Budget

$1,000,000 - $5,000,000

Year Founded

1982