Resources Catalogue 4

Problem Pesticides, Pesticide Problems, 2nd. ed. 1988, 183pp - Gretta Goldenman and Sarojeni V. Rengam provide a citizen’s action guide to monitor pesticide-related practices of governments, the pesticides industry and pesticides users. It seeks to build citizens’ awareness using the FAO’s International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides.

Trading Our Lives Away, 1995, 48 pp. In this book, which is co-published with India based Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Natural Resources Policy, Vandana Shiva draws on the Indian experience of the GATT and its ramifications to offer her analysis of the impact it will have on the lives of people, especially the women of the South, and the environment. She argues that feminist thinking needs to widen its scope of analysis and activism in order to meet the challenges of the newest - and possibly most threatening - phase of trade and globalisation.

Citizens Action for Pesticide Reform 1994, 41pp - Authored by Sarojeni V. Rengam, the report documents citizens’ initiatives for pesticide reform in four countries. It describes briefly the work and campaigns of PAN International.

Victims Without Voice: A Study of Women Pesticide Workers in Malaysia 1992, 192pp - The report highlights the results of a survey carried out on women plantations workers and the impact of pesticides on men. It also gives an overview of pesticides and the role of women in the plantation sector in Malaysia. It is not a pleasant story. It provides the most recent and comprehensive statistics and information available on women plantation workers and pesticides abuses.

Breaking the Pesticide Habit: Alternatives to 12 Hazardous Pesticides 1990, 348pp - Terry Gips provides the history of pest control strategies, and a comprehensive guide to sustainable alternatives to the Dirty Dozen pesticides.

Banking on Poisons - edited by Ronald Macfarlane, 1998, 227 pp. This is the report of the Regional Consultation on Pesticides and Credit and of six case studies looking at the links between credit and pesticide use. It concludes that, although it is now generally indirect, there is a link between pesticides and credit - as long as lenders belive that mordern high input agriculture is more viable than the alternatives, there will be a bias in lending. The challenge ahead is to demonstrate that alternative agriculture such as organic agriculture, integrated agriculture, or agro-forestry are profitable and thus credit worthy.

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