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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Barbara Dinham

Dorothy Myers obituary

Dorothy Myers
Dorothy Myers’s research contributed to international regulation of pesticide use Photograph: none

My friend and colleague Dorothy Myers, who has died aged 88, was a pioneering environmentalist.

When she joined the Oxfam policy unit in Oxford in 1984, the organisation had just published David Bull’s influential book Pesticides and the Third World Poor. Dorothy led Oxfam’s input to teamwork with the global Pesticide Action Network (Pan) that challenged the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation to stop export of pesticides banned in industrialised countries to the developing world.

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