In this 2-minute video, PAN Latin America (RAPAL) regional director Javier Souza Casadinho provides an overview on what constitutes highly hazardous pesticides. This was produced in time for the global network’s participation at the “Fifth session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management” as a major policy advocacy initiative to eliminate the use of HHPs […]
Produced by Roots for Equity and Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT), this documentary provides an in-depth understanding of the struggles of small and landless farmers in Pakistan and connects it to the global actors behind framers’ plight. For Roots for Equity and PKMT, there cannot be genuine democracy and women’s liberation till there is equitable […]
Eating sustainably should be accessible to all. One way to do this is to make visible how communities are able to feed each other in a way that asserts people’s rights, strengthens relationships, involves those that are most affected, and speaks truth to power. Pinagkaisang Lakas ng Mamamayan (PLM) – Payatas, a people’s organization and […]
SHISUK stands for Shikkha Shastha Unnayan Karzakram. SHISUK’s Education, Health, and Development Program have emerged with distinct mandates since its inception in 1996. The lifelines of the Bangladesh economy and peoples’ livelihoods are agriculture, agriculture-based entrepreneurship, and overseas migration.
Thanal Agro-Ecology Centre (TAEC), Wayanad, Kerala, India is a major stride towards the conservation of agrobiodiversity and agroecology. TAEC is ne of the field learning sites of the International People’s Agroecology Multiversity (IPAM). It facilitates training for students and farmers and also hosts around 300+ traditional varieties of Paddy together with other varieties of spices, bananas, […]
It’s been a hard year, especially for food producers. Let’s end 2020 with an inspiring story of how farmers in the Philippines continue to assert their rights & people’s #foodsovereignty.
This interview with Charlene Tan, from Good Food Community, traces the journey to build the Good Food Community platform in Metro Manila to help make local communities sustainable by connecting organic farmers and eaters to share the risks, rewards, and responsibilities of food production.
Toxic pesticides used in mango orchards and floriculture farms in India affect the lives of young children. Who is responsible for their poisoning? Find out in this documentary by PAN Asia Pacific, in cooperation with Society for Rural Education and Development, Sahanivasa and APVVU.
Dr. Romeo Quijano, chairperson of PAN Asia Pacific, has personally witnessed the damaging effects of Highly Hazardous Pesticides on people’s health and the environment over the past decades. He calls for the accountability of pesticide manufacturers and plantation companies for human rights violations related to the use of pesticides.
This short documentary highlights the successful efforts to establish pesticide-free buffer zones around schools in Asia. In Vietnam, children were taught early on the harmful effects of pesticides and to move towards alternative methods. Meanwhile, in Cambodia, farmers stopped spraying pesticides on school days. This was a result of an education campaign launched after students […]
