PANAP Calls for Agroecology as Solution to Environmental and Climate Crisis on World Environment Day 2026
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Saturday, 6 June 2026, 4:59 pm Press Release: PAN Asia Pacific
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On World Environment Day 2026, the Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific (PANAP) calls for agroecology as a people-led solution to combat the environmental and climate crisis. The article argues that corporate-controlled agriculture—driven by profit motives and reliant on toxic pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, and monocultures—is destroying ecosystems, biodiversity, and the climate. It advocates for a radical transformation of the current corporate food system toward agroecological practices.
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· 3 pulledAs the world marks World Environment Day, the Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific (PANAP) today renewed its call for agroecology as a key measure to address and reverse the devastating impacts of corporate-controlled agriculture and pesticide-intensive farming on the environment, biodiversity, and the climate.
Corporate agriculture, driven by the profit interests of transnational agribusiness corporations, has promoted the massive use of toxic pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, monoculture plantations, and extractive farming practices that destroy...
Protecting the environment and confronting the climate crisis requires radically transforming the current corporate food system.
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