05/30/2026
⚠️ Today, 28 May 2026, we celebrate the 44th anniversary of the establishment of Pesticide Action Network (PAN). Since PAN’s founding in 1982 Malaysia, we have worked across borders and movements to challenge the harms caused by highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs), expose corporate and regulatory failures, advance agroecological alternatives, and defend the right of all people to healthy, just, ecologically vibrant and climate-resilient food and farming systems worldwide.
🌿Over the past four decades, our global network has grown into a movement comprising over 600 autonomous civil society organisations, institutions, grassroots communities and individuals in more than 90 countries, and has achieved meaningful progress. Throughout this time, we have been proud to support communities in securing national, regional and international bans on some of the world’s most dangerous pesticides, such as Chlorpyrifos, which was recently banned at the 2025 Basel, Stockholm and Rotterdam Convention COPs. Awareness of the links between pesticides, , biodiversity loss, climate change and public health has grown dramatically. Consequently, and farmer-led solutions are increasingly recognised as vital for achieving resilient food systems.
Sarojeni Rengam, Executive Director at PAN Asia-Pacific highlighted: ‘At its 44th anniversary, PANAP affirms that banning and phasing out highly hazardous pesticides in the Asia-Pacific is not only necessary, but achievable through the collective power of women, farmers, agricultural workers, and Indigenous peoples’ movements. Building on this, we commit to advancing people-led agroecology to dismantle toxic, corporate-driven food systems with the leadership of these communities, while pushing for policies that decisively end pesticide dependence and advance ecological and climate justice’.
✨As we mark this 44th anniversary, we reaffirm our commitment to transforming for a future that is healthy, just, ecologically vibrant and climate-resilient. We will continue to take concerted action to promote sustainable agriculture as a holistic scientific approach and a movement for social transformation that upholds local knowledge, respects indigenous cultures and integrates participatory research and the empowerment of women and farmers. We will also continue to fight for local, national and international agreements that restrict, reduce and eliminate dependence on pesticides, and that phase out and ban those that cause acute and chronic effects, including endocrine disruption and cancer.
Read our full statement here: https://tinyurl.com/PAN44Anniversary
Pesticide Action Network India
Pesticide Action Network International
Pesticide Action Network UK
Pesticide Action Network North America
PAN Europe (Pesticide Action Network)
