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International Webinar on Pesticides Poisonings in India demands Syngenta to acknowledge liability of its product Polo
Continue readingInternational Webinar on Pesticides Poisonings in India demands Syngenta to acknowledge liability of its product Polo PAN India, PAN AP, Public Eye and ECCHR | 26th June 2021 Press Note An international webinar titled ‘Pesticides Poisonings in India : implications for business accountability and regulatory reform’ was organised yesterday 24thJune, 2021. The webinar discussed the […]
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Pesticides poisonings in India: Implications for business accountability and regulatory reform
Continue readingPesticides poisonings in India: Implications for business accountability and regulatory reform PAN India, PAN AP, Public Eye and ECCHR | 16th June 2021 PAN Asia Pacific, together with the Maharashtra Association of Pesticide Poisoned Persons (MAPPP), Pesticide Action Network (PAN) India, Public Eye and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) invite you […]
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Third Annual General Meeting of MAPPP demands compensation and rehabilitation package for victims of pesticide poisoning
Continue readingPress Release | 31 January 2021 Participants of this meeting expressed their solidarity with the victims of pesticides in Eluru (Andhra Pradesh), Burla (Odisha) and Arakkonam (Tamilnadu) and in various other places of India. Most of these victims are farmers and farm workers. On the occasion of the third annual general meeting, members of MAPPP […]
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Global Outrage at FAO Plans to Partner with Pesticide Industry
Continue readingHundreds of civil society and Indigenous Peoples organizations call on the UN agency to renounce planned alliance with CropLife International On 19th November, 350 organizations in 63 countries representing hundreds of thousands of farmers, fisherfolk, agricultural workers and other communities, as well as human rights, faith-based, environmental and economic justice institutions, delivered a letter to […]
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PAN India’s Comments/Suggestions on the Draft Banning of Insecticides Order 2020
Continue readingIn a gazette notification issued on 14thof May 2020, the Ministry of Agriculture proposed a draft order intended to ban the 27 pesticides and sought comments or suggestions from stakeholders. Recognising that the proposal of banning 27 pesticides is a responsible, welcoming development and timely decision from the Ministry of Agriculture for protecting public health […]
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PAN India urge Indian Agriculture Ministry to ban glyphosate
Continue readingIn its comments submitted on the draft ‘Restriction on use of Glyphosate Order, 2020’, PAN India urged the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India to ban glyphosate (import, production, sales and use) in India, considering its health and environmental effects as well as wide spread illegal use. Pesticide Action Network (PAN) India […]
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Pesticide Watch NGO releases report ‘State of Glyphosate Use in India’
Continue readingPress Release| 16th October 2020 The pesticide watch group organisations Pesticide Action Network India and PAN Asia Pacific released a report titled ‘State of Glyphosate Use in India’, in a webinar titled Elimination of the Uncultivated Greens: Glyphosate Usage in India’conducted today. Ms. Sarojeni Rengan, executive director of PAN AP released the report. […]
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State of Glyphosate Use in India
Continue readingPAN India releases the report ‘State of Glyphosate Use in India’ in a webinar titled ‘Elimination of the Uncultivated Greens: Glyphosate Usage in India’ organised today, 16th October 2020 Report in Brief This report reveals the ground reality of glyphosate use in India based on field survey in seven Indian States. This study […]
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Webinar on Elimination of the Uncultivated Greens: Glyphosate Usage in India
Continue readingInvitation| 12th October 2020 A Pesticide Action Network (PAN) India free webinar October 16th | 11:00 am India Standard Time Register Here Modern development has juxtaposed the existence of nature, between wanted and unwanted, cultivated and uncultivated. Glyphosate has become a tool to settle this. But it did not become a tool straightaway. It […]
