PAN Reports, Manuals and Guides
Pesticides and Food
Food for Thought (2017)
Children in England are being exposed to a cocktail of pesticide residues in the fresh produce they receive through the Department of Health’s School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme (SFVS).
Pesticides in Your Daily Bread (2014)
A consumer guide to pesticides in bread.
Find further details about the effects of pesticides on health here.
Pesticides on a Plate (2013)
A consumer guide to pesticide issues in the food chain.
Find further details about the effects of pesticides on health here.
Pesticides on a Plate (2007)
A consumer guide to pesticide issues in the food chain.
Find further details about the effects of pesticides on health here.
The Alternative Pesticide Residues Report (2005)
What the government doesn’t tell us about pesticides in our food.
Pesticides and Health
SHPF Toolkit (2017)
Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs)
Highly Hazardous Pesticides (2024)
Glyphosate Monograph (2016)
Pesticides and Cotton
Farmers’ friends and cotton pests (2018)
Identification guide for Ethiopian cotton fields
Download the guide in Amharic here.
Is cotton conquering its chemical addiction?
Revised June 2018
Read more about our work in cotton here.
Sustainable Cotton Ranking (2017)
Assessing Company Performance
Read more about our work in cotton here.
Cotton Without Highly Hazardous Pesticides – An Ethiopian Experience (2017)
2000 smallholder cotton farmers in Southern Ethiopia have adopted our sustainable farming methods and are achieving average yields over 100% higher than before.
Find further details of our work with cotton farmers here.
Sustainable Cotton Ranking (2016)
Assessing Company Performance
Read more about our work in cotton here.
Living with Poison
Problems with endosulfan in West African cotton growing systems
Pesticides and International Policy
Unblocking the Rotterdam Convention
2023
Consolidated Guide to Chemical Codes and Conventions
2008
Bees and Other Pollinator Factsheets
Pesticide Alternatives
NOTE: These are our major resources on alternatives. Find out more about our work on alternatives (and search by topic) here.
Food Spray Manual (2016)
PAN UK began working with Integrated Pest Management expert, Robert Mensah, ten years ago to develop a food spray, using cheap and locally available materials, to enhance populations of beneficial insects in smallholder cotton fields in Africa.
Find further details of our work with cotton farmers here.
Alternative methods in weed management to the use of glyphosate and other herbicides (2023)
A comprehensive guide to managing weeds without the use of glyphosate and other herbicides.
Alternatives to Highly Hazardous Pesticides (2017)
A short guide using case studies to describe alternative methods for managing pests, crop diseases or weeds in coffee, cotton, horticulture and cereal production in tropical and temperate regions.
Replacing Chemicals with Biology (2015)
Phasing out highly hazardous pesticides with agroecology.
What are the seven components of agroecology? Find out here.
Ecosystem Services Walks – Experiences in Ethiopia
A PAN UK output for the Darwin Initiative project Pesticide Impacts on Biodiversity in Ethiopia & Agroecological Solutions (2013-2015)
How to run an Ecosystem Service Walk
Guidance on how to run an ecosystem services walk.
Low danger pest control for communities
This is a booklet to help communities control pests without the use of chemicals.
