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'''Pesticide Action Network''' (PAN) is an [[International non-governmental organization|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 name=":0">{{Cite web |title=About |publisher=PAN International |url=https://pan-international.org/about/ |access-date=June 3, 2023}}</ref> It was founded in 1982 with its first meeting in [[Penang]], Malaysia.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" />
'''Pesticide Action Network''' (PAN) is an [[International non-governmental organization|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 name=":0">{{Cite web |title=About |publisher=PAN International |url=https://pan-international.org/about/ |access-date=June 3, 2023}}</ref> It was founded in 1982 with its first meeting in [[Penang]], Malaysia.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" />

== Structure ==
PAN is a decentralised organisation composed by a network of NGOs, institutions and individuals being coordinated regionally.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Pesticide Action Network {{!}} UIA Yearbook Profile {{!}} Union of International Associations |url=https://uia.org/s/or/en/1100054917 |access-date=June 12, 2023 |website=uia.org}}</ref> It doesn't have a central headquarter but five independent, collaborating Regional Centers that implement its projects and campaigns across the world:<ref name=":1" />

* Pesticide Action Network Africa (PANAF) founded in 1995, based in [[Dakar]], [[Senegal]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pesticide Action Network Africa {{!}} UIA Yearbook Profile {{!}} Union of International Associations |url=https://uia.org/s/or/en/1122269045 |access-date=2023-10-06 |website=uia.org}}</ref>
* Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP) founded in 1995, based in [[Penang]], [[Malaysia]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=PAN Asia and the Pacific {{!}} UIA Yearbook Profile {{!}} Union of International Associations |url=https://uia.org/s/or/en/1122269099 |access-date=2023-10-06 |website=uia.org}}</ref>
* Pesticides Action Network Europe (PAN EU), founded in 1987, based since 2006 in [[Brussels]], [[Belgium]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pesticide Action Network Europe {{!}} UIA Yearbook Profile {{!}} Union of International Associations |url=https://uia.org/s/or/en/1122269063 |access-date=2023-10-06 |website=uia.org}}</ref>
* Red De Acción En Plaguicidas Y Sus Alternativas De América Latina (RAP-AL) founded in 1983 and since 1995, a regional centre of PAN, also referred to as ''PAN Latin America'', based in [[Santiago]], [[Chile]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Red de Acción en Plaguicidas y sus Alternativas de América Latina {{!}} UIA Yearbook Profile {{!}} Union of International Associations |url=https://uia.org/s/or/en/1122269110 |access-date=2023-10-06 |website=uia.org}}</ref>
* Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA).<ref name=":1" />


== Activity ==
== Activity ==

Revision as of 17:26, 16 October 2023

Pesticide Action Network
Formation1982; 42 years ago (1982)
Founded atPenang, Malaysia
TypeInternational NGO, Nonprofit
PurposePesticide regulation
Region
Worldwide
AffiliationsUnion of International Associations
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] It was founded in 1982 with its first meeting in Penang, Malaysia.[2][1]

Activity

PAN lobbied international institutions to regulate pesticide trade by adopting the concept of "Prior informed consent".[3] PAN led a civil society campaign that gained the support of the chemical industry in the early 1990s, after their initial opposition.[4] This concept was adopted by the Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.[4][5] Prior to the Rotterdam Convention’s entry into force, an interim Chemical Review Committee was established and the Pesticide Action Network coalition participated as representatives of non-governmental organizations, alongside representatives from intergovernmental organizations (such as the World Health Organization) and several industry associations.[6]

PAN has lobbied for the regulation of persistent organic pollutants.[7] Starting in 1995, PAN participated with other NGOs to the intergovernmental forums on persistent organic pollutants.[7][8] The meetings culminated with the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants signed in 2001.[8][9]

In 2000, Genetically Engineered Food Alert was launched by multiple organizations, including Pesticide Action Network North America, to lobby the FDA, Congress and companies to ban or stop using GMOs.[10] On September 18, 2000, Genetically Engineered Food Alert announced it had identified StarLink, a GMO not approved for human consumption, in some Taco Bell-branded taco shells, leading to the StarLink corn recall.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b "About". PAN International. Retrieved June 3, 2023.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Wolf, Amanda (2000). "Informed Consent: A Negotiated Formula for Trade in Risky Organisms and Chemicals". International Negotiation. 5 (3): 498. doi:10.1163/15718060020848866. ISSN 1382-340X.
  4. ^ a b Hough, Peter (2021). "Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure in Trade". In Morin, Jean-Frédéric; Orsini, Amandine (eds.). Essential concepts of global environmental governance (2nd ed.). Abingdon, Oxon New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-367-81668-1.
  5. ^ Wolf, Amanda (2000). "Informed Consent: A Negotiated Formula for Trade in Risky Organisms and Chemicals". International Negotiation. 5 (3): 485–521. doi:10.1163/15718060020848866. ISSN 1382-340X.
  6. ^ Kohler, Pia M. (2006). "Science, PIC and POPs: Negotiating the Membership of Chemical Review Committees under the Stockholm and Rotterdam Conventions". Review of European Community and International Environmental Law. 15 (3): 299. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9388.2006.00531.x. ISSN 0962-8797.
  7. ^ a b Baldwin, Elizabeth (1997-01-01). "Reclaiming Our Future: International Efforts to Eliminate the Threat of Persistent Organic Pollutants". UC Law SF International Law Review. 20 (4): 855. ISSN 0149-9246.
  8. ^ a b Yoder, Andrew (2003-07-01). "Lessons from Stockholm: Evaluating the Global Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants". 10 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 113 (Summer 2003). 10 (2).
  9. ^ "Stockholm Convention > The Convention > Overview > History > Overview". chm.pops.int. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
  10. ^ Margot Roosevelt, Time Magazine. Monday, Jul. 31, 2000 "Inside The Protests: Taking It To Main Street"
  11. ^ Marc Kaufman, Washington Post. September 18, 2000 "Biotech Critics Cite Unapproved Corn in Taco Shells; Gene-Modified Variety Allowed Only for Animal Feed Because of Allergy Concerns" Archived December 2, 2017, at the Wayback Machine

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