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No Pesticide Use Week (NPUW) 2024 - A Call For Corporate Accountability And Agroecological Transformation
Wednesday, 11 December 2024, 10:29 pm | PAN Asia Pacific
Hazardous pesticides banned in Europe are still being manufactured by European companies and exported to countries with weaker safety regulations, creating a double standard in pesticide use. More >>
COP29 Baku Harmoniya, Initiative For Corporations, Not Farmers
Friday, 22 November 2024, 9:17 am | PAN Asia Pacific
Amid corporate agriculture’s presence and influence at climate talks, Malaysia-based Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific (PANAP) dismissed a COP29 initiative as a scheme favoring big corporations over real climate solutions and farmers’ welfare. More >>
Stop Harassment Of Filipino Farmers Resisting Land Grabs – PANAP
Wednesday, 18 September 2024, 7:34 pm | PAN Asia Pacific
Such display of power by state security forces sends a chilling message to local communities that resist land and resource grabbing, especially in the Philippines where there has been continuing and worsening attacks against peasant organisations. More >>
Honor Indigenous Peoples, Fight Against Land Grabs And False Solutions
Friday, 9 August 2024, 7:57 pm | PAN Asia Pacific
We stand in unwavering solidarity with Indigenous communities worldwide, who bravely defend their lands, resources, livelihoods, and ways of life against profit-driven encroachment, exploitation, and destruction. More >>
‘Victory’ For Farmers: Groups Welcome End Of FAO #ToxicAlliance With Pesticide Industry
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:12 am | PAN Asia Pacific
PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) joins civil society & Indigenous Peoples organisations in welcoming the end of a three-year controversial partnership agreement between the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and CropLife International, an association ... More >>
World Environment Day 2024: Protect Pollinators To Restore Land And Biodiversity
Wednesday, 5 June 2024, 6:25 pm | PAN Asia Pacific
Leading up to World Environment Day, PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) and its partners from across the region held various activities to underscore the need to protect pollinators and safeguard children’s rights to a clean and healthy environment. More >>
Salute To Agricultural Workers' Struggles For Decent Work And Living
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 4:11 am | PAN Asia Pacific
The Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI) joins millions of working people worldwide in commemorating the May 1 International Labor Day. Despite intensifying political repression, we salute agricultural workers' continuing struggle to assert ... More >>
Victory Against GM Golden Rice And Bt Eggplant In The Philippines Court, A Crucial Win In The Global Fight Against GMOs
Thursday, 25 April 2024, 5:14 am | PAN Asia Pacific
The resilience of farmers, consumers in the Philippines against GMO crops in their countries which have been vindicated by the Supreme Court have become a testament that people’s persistence prevails in the face of corporate capture of our agriculture ... More >>
Court Victory Vs. Golden Rice And Bt Eggplant In The Philippines ‘inspiring’
Sunday, 21 April 2024, 5:08 am | PAN Asia Pacific
The dedication of the Filipino people in the battle against Golden Rice and Bt eggplant inspires civil society and farmers’ movements elsewhere in Asia to thwart all efforts of agrochemical transnational corporations to push their hazardous technologies. More >>
End Forced Evictions In Perak, Ensure Farmers’ Rights And Food Security –PANAP
Friday, 27 October 2023, 8:47 pm | PAN Asia Pacific
PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) condemns the eviction of farmers from their farmland in Kanthan, Tambun, Perak by Malaysian authorities last October 24 that resulted in the arrest of three activists and one local farmer, physical assault of one female ... More >>
Farmers Resist Corporate Control And Greenwashing In Asian Rice-based Food Systems
Wednesday, 18 October 2023, 7:55 pm | PAN Asia Pacific
Corporate efforts to control rice-based food systems are intensifying to the detriment of small farmers’ livelihoods and the food security of those who depend on the staple crop. Environmental and climate catastrophes are also bound to worsen with ... More >>
Zero Hope For Zero Hunger: Break The Chains Of Imperialism
Tuesday, 17 October 2023, 5:36 am | PAN Asia Pacific
Forward The Future Free Of Hunger, Dispossession, And Destruction! Unparalleled urgency marks our annual commemoration of World Hunger Day amid imperialist machinations to advance a sinister agenda to monopolize further and exploit global food systems ... More >>
Commitments In New Chemicals Framework Should Catalyze Strong Global Action On Pesticides
Wednesday, 4 October 2023, 6:52 am | PAN Asia Pacific
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International welcomes significant commitments towards the phase-out of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) in agriculture adopted by governments, the private sector, and other stakeholders at the Fifth International Conference ... More >>
Highly Hazardous Pesticides & Detoxifying Agriculture Are Make-or-break Issues At Critical Global Pollution Conference
Wednesday, 20 September 2023, 7:20 pm | PAN Asia Pacific
NGOs urge governments and UN agencies to act Key reforms on pesticides must be agreed at historic chemical pollution conference in September to address significant threats to human health and the environment Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) phase out ... More >>
FAO Director General Urged To Begin New Term With Action To End Pesticide Industry Partnership
Wednesday, 26 July 2023, 7:37 pm | PAN Asia Pacific
Today, 11 global civil society and Indigenous Peoples organizations representing small-scale farmers, agricultural workers, trade unions, and rights holders urged Mr. Qu Dongyu to begin his new term as Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture ... More >>
UNFSS+2 Is Pathway To More Hunger & Climate Catastrophe: Rural Peoples Stand Up For Radical Food Systems Transformation
Tuesday, 25 July 2023, 6:20 am | PAN Asia Pacific
Rural peoples and advocates across the globe warned that world hunger and interlinked food, human rights and climate crises will worsen as big corporations consolidate their control over the world food systems through the UN Food Systems Summit +2 (UNFSS), ... More >>
Protect Children’s Rights To A Clean And Healthy Environment, Phase-Out Highly Hazardous Pesticides!
Monday, 5 June 2023, 6:48 pm | PAN Asia Pacific
To commemorate World Environment Day 2023, PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) and its partners launched its annual Protect Our Children from Toxic Pesticides campaign, calling for a global phase-out of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) by 2030. The United ... More >>
International Labor Day 2023: Agri-workers Renew Call For Rights Protection As Food & Climate Crises Worsen
Tuesday, 2 May 2023, 7:12 pm | PAN Asia Pacific
The Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI) renewed its demand for substantial protection of the rights and welfare of agricultural workers amid worsening global food and climate crises. CAWI emphasized that, like the rest of working and ... More >>
Rural Peoples In Global South To Mobilize 1 Million For Food, Land And Climate Justice
Thursday, 30 March 2023, 6:54 pm | PAN Asia Pacific
Rural peoples movements from Asia, Latin America and Africa launched the Global Peoples’ Caravan for Food, Land, and Climate Justice –an awareness-raising and mobilization campaign to demand governments to address the interconnected issues ... More >>
Rural Women Rise For Food, Land And Rights! Protect Women Who Feed The World!
Friday, 10 March 2023, 6:56 am | PAN Asia Pacific
On International Women’s Day, the Asian Rural Women’s Coalition (ARWC) stands in solidarity with all rural women in the region and across the world against the worsening global food crisis caused by neoliberal agriculture systems. The global ... More >>