Issues: Health

Trouble on the Farm
Growing Up with Pesticides in Agricultural Communities


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Credits

Principal Author
Gina M. Solomon, M.D., M.P.H.

Contributing Author
Lawrie Motts, M.S.

Editing & Production Supervision
Sharene Azimi

Electronic assembly & additional design
Bonnie Greenfield

Cover Design
Jenkins and Page

Cover photos
J.B. McCourtney/Impact Visuals (boy picking); Chris Johnson (boy smiling); Andrew Lichtenstein/Impact Visuals (pesticide sign); PhotoDisc (boy in window); Chris Johnson (family and pesticide application).



Acknowledgments

NRDC gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their support of our pesticide use reduction efforts: Barkley Fund, Carolyn Foundation, Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund, W. Alton Jones Foundation, The Joyce Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and Charles Henry Leach II Foundation. As with all our work, publication of this report would not have been possible without the support of NRDC’s 400,000 members.

Thanks to Mary Nguyen and Pam Weiant for research assistance. NRDC colleagues David Wallinga and Jacqueline Hamilton reviewed drafts of this report and made valuable suggestions. In addition, Liza Pike contributed editorial suggestions and media relations. Gail de Rita provided invaluable assistance in many aspects of the report.

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