{"id":4375,"date":"2022-02-18T13:45:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T05:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panap.net\/?p=4375"},"modified":"2022-02-18T13:45:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T05:45:06","slug":"narratives-of-agroecology-endure-as-global-chemical-pollution-breaches-safety-limits","status":"publish","type":"panap_updates","link":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/updates\/narratives-of-agroecology-endure-as-global-chemical-pollution-breaches-safety-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Narratives of agroecology endure as global chemical pollution breaches safety limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/jan\/18\/chemical-pollution-has-passed-safe-limit-for-humanity-say-scientists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned<\/a> that chemical pollution may have crossed our \u201cplanetary boundary.\u201d \u00a0It was pointed out that the growing use of pesticides\u2014along with plastics and industrial chemicals\u2014have large-scale impacts that threaten the stability and integrity of global ecosystems upon which humanity depends. The \u201cincreasing rate of production and releases of larger volumes\u201d of chemicals are already exceeding \u201csocieties\u2019 ability to conduct safety related assessments and monitoring,\u201d the study concludes.<\/p>\n<p>It is clear that there is an urgent need to radically shift away from chemical-intensive industrial agriculture and replace the use of pesticides with agroecological alternatives. Agroecology forms a crucial part of the global response to our interrelated health, climate and ecological crises.<\/p>\n<p>As our contribution to promoting agroecology, PAN Asia Pacific had published case studies that documented \u201cThe Enduring Narratives of Agroecology.\u201d Featuring 14 stories from South Asia, Southeast Asia and Africa, the book details the successful experiences of farmers and Field Learning Sites (FLS) of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ipam-global.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International People\u2019s Agroecology Multiversity (IPAM)<\/a>. IPAM is a research-learning-action approach to agroecology that focuses on small-food producers and farming communities. The case studies\u2014written by partners from FLS\u2019 in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Philippines, Senegal and Vietnam\u2014affirm that while change happens one farmer, one field, and one community at a time, the cumulative impacts of collective efforts by small-scale producers to transition to agroecology cannot be discounted.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAgroecology offers sustainable solutions to pressing development, climate change and social justice challenges\u2026As agroecology cannot flourish without food sovereignty, it is our hope that these successful narratives contribute to the burgeoning of people\u2019s movements that are crucial for people-oriented development and for food sovereignty,\u201d said Sarojeni Rengam, PANAP executive director, in the book\u2019s foreword.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Download <a href=\"https:\/\/files.panap.net\/resources\/The-Enduring-Narratives-of-Agroecology.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Enduring Narratives of Agroecology: 14 case studies from South Asia, Southeast Asia and Africa <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists recently warned that chemical pollution may have crossed our \u201cplanetary boundary.\u201d \u00a0It was pointed out that the growing use of pesticides\u2014along with plastics and industrial chemicals\u2014have large-scale impacts that threaten the stability and integrity of global ecosystems upon which humanity depends. The \u201cincreasing rate of production and releases of larger volumes\u201d of chemicals are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4381,"template":"","update_categories":[111],"class_list":["post-4375","panap_updates","type-panap_updates","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","update_categories-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panap_updates\/4375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panap_updates"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/panap_updates"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panap_updates\/4375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"update_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/update_categories?post=4375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}