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'''Pesticide Action Network''' (PAN) is an international coalition of around 600 [[NGO]]s, citizens' groups, and individuals in about 60 countries which opposes [[pesticide]] use, and advocates what it proposes as more ecologically sound alternatives.<ref>
'''Pesticide Action Network''' (PAN) is an international coalition of around 600 [[NGO]]s, citizens' groups, and individuals in about 60 countries which opposes [[pesticide]] use, and advocates what it proposes as more ecologically sound alternatives.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iNIOAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA37 |title=International Symposium on Biopesticides for Developing Countries |publisher=Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE |year=2005 |isbn=978-9977-57-403-5 |editor=Ulrich Roettger and Reinhold Muschler |page=37}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=About {{!}} PAN International |url=https://pan-international.org/about/ |access-date=2023-06-03 |language=en-US}}</ref> It was founded in 1982 with its first meeting in Malaysia.<ref name=":0" />
{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iNIOAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA37 |title=International Symposium on Biopesticides for Developing Countries |publisher=Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE |year=2005 |isbn=978-9977-57-403-5 |editor=Ulrich Roettger and Reinhold Muschler |page=37}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=About {{!}} PAN International |url=https://pan-international.org/about/ |access-date=2023-06-03 |language=en-US}}</ref> It was founded in 1982 with its first meeting in Malaysia.<ref name=":0" />

== Structure ==
PAN is a decentralised organisation. It doesn't have a central headquarter but five independent, collaborating Regional Centers that implement its projects and campaigns across the world:

# Pesticide Action Network Africa (PANAF)
# Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP)
# Pesticides Action Network Europe (PAN EU)
# Red De Acción En Plaguicidas Y Sus Alternativas De América Latina (RAP-AL)
# Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)

== Strategic Objectives ==
The organisation aims to achieve 5 main strategic objectives<ref>{{Cite web |title=Strategic Objectives {{!}} PAN International |url=https://pan-international.org/strategic-objectives/ |access-date=2023-06-03 |language=en-US}}</ref>:

# Protect health and the environment by eliminating highly hazardous pesticides from the market and replacing them with sustainable solutions.
# Resist development and stop the introduction and use of genetic engineering into agricultural production systems.
# Promote empowerment of grassroots movements and citizens to fight agrochemical and seed corporations and challenge corporate globalization.
# Increase public investment, development, adoption and implementation of non-chemical alternative pest management systems.
# Develop further PAN International structures.

== Activity ==
In November 2010, PAN publicized a leaked [[Environmental Protection Agency]] (EPA) memo that showed that the EPA suspected the crop spray [[clothianidin]], a [[neonicotinoid]], manufactured by German agrochemical company [[Bayer]], as a possible cause of bee [[colony collapse disorder]].<ref>{{cite news |author=Brandon Keim |date=13 December 2010 |title=Leaked Memo Shows EPA Doubts About Bee-Killing Pesticide |work=Wired |url=http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/science-a-environmental/20840-coalition-sues-california-over-approval-of-cancer-causing-strawberry-pesticide.html}}</ref> In 2018, a report from the [[European Food Safety Authority]] based on more than 1500 studies concluded that neonicotinoids pose a high risk to both honeybees and wild bees by contaminating soil and water and appearing in wildflowers or succeeding crops. This pesticide has a conditional approval in the U.S., where it is widely used on [[Sugar beet|sugar beets]], [[canola]], [[soy]], [[sunflowers]], [[wheat]], and [[corn]], but has been since banned in the entire [[European Union]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Carrington |first=Damian |date=2018-04-27 |title=EU agrees total ban on bee-harming pesticides |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/27/eu-agrees-total-ban-on-bee-harming-pesticides |access-date=2023-06-03 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Houk |first1=Theodore |title=M.D. |url=https://www.actu-environnement.com/ae/news/loi-biodiversite-pesticides-neonicotinoides-26437.php4 |accessdate=24 February 2018}}</ref>

In December 2010, PAN North America joined with other organizations in suing California, to challenge "the state's approval of the cancer-causing strawberry pesticide [[methyl iodide]]."<ref>{{cite news |date=4 January 2011 |title=Coalition Sues California Over Approval of Cancer-Causing Strawberry Pesticide |work=eNews Park Forest |url=http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/science-a-environmental/20840-coalition-sues-california-over-approval-of-cancer-causing-strawberry-pesticide.html}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 21:54, 4 June 2023

Pesticide Action Network
Formation1982; 42 years ago (1982)
Founded atMalaysia
TypeNGO, Nonprofit
PurposePesticide regulation
Websitehttps://pan-international.org

Pesticide Action Network (PAN) is an international coalition of around 600 NGOs, citizens' groups, and individuals in about 60 countries which opposes pesticide use, and advocates what it proposes as more ecologically sound alternatives.[1][2] It was founded in 1982 with its first meeting in Malaysia.[2]

References

  1. ^ Ulrich Roettger and Reinhold Muschler, ed. (2005). International Symposium on Biopesticides for Developing Countries. Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE. p. 37. ISBN 978-9977-57-403-5.
  2. ^ a b "About | PAN International". Retrieved 2023-06-03.

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