Pesticide Atlas & "The Problem with Pesticides" Recap
HAPA contextualized Hawaiʻi’s state of the Problem with Pesticides.
If you weren’t able to make it last week, you can watch it here. Make sure to dig into the just-launched US edition of The Pesticide Atlas, a comprehensive compendium on pesticide use in the US and its impacts, with an essay by HAPA’s Executive Director, Anne Frederick.
Below are links to the resources mentioned during the webinar :
Merchants of Poison: How Monsanto Sold the World on a Toxic Poison, a 2022 report by Stacy Malkan with Kendra Klein, PhD, and Anna Lappé, illuminating the disinformation and science denial at the core of the pesticide industry’s public relations playbook
Rich Appetites — a short film series on how philanthropy is fueling industrial agriculture in Africa by AGRA Watch and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
Who’s Tipping the Scales? —a report from IPES-Food on the growing role worldwide of corporate power in the governance of food and what we can do about it.
Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA by E.G. Vallianatos and McKay Jenkins.
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Warmly,
Anna, Stacy, Anne, Emily, and Lori Ann
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