Pesticide Action Week 2025

Manchester Friends of the Earth | ‘Modest’ nationwide pesticide plan published – Friends of the Earth reaction

A UK-wide government action plan to reduce pesticide risks to human health and the environment has been published today. Commenting for Friends of the Earth, nature campaigner, Paul de Zylva, said: “A credible action plan to cut pesticide use is long overdue. We now have a modest plan to help farmers and others get off the chemical treadmill. “The over-reliance on pesticides harms people and wildlife and, by polluting waters and depleting soils,…

Pesticide Action Week 2025

Spring is here, full of new life. But it is also the start of the spraying season. With a Pesticide Action Week, we and our members and partners in different EU countries ask attention to the devastating effects of pesticides on our health, soil, water, and biodiversity. Here are some of the events: Belgium:  19/03/2020: Expert meeting by PAN Europ in EU Parliament hosted by MEPs Friis and Guarda: Regulating PFAS Pesticides: Ensuring Clean Wate…

The gradual elimination of toxic pesticides that are applied to agriculture and kill biodiversity, pollute our soil and water and cause serious diseases is the objective and demand of civil society and scientists to European politicians, which has shown in the document that 85 European organisations, including environmental, health and human rights groups, as well as trade unions of agricultural workers and farmers' organisations, have reached o…