After more than a decade of lobbying, the Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent finally became a treaty—a major milestone for PAN’s advocacy work on pesticides.
That same year, amid the onslaught of the Asian financial crisis, PANAP became part of the Asia-Pacific People’s Assembly in Kuala Lumpur, which had participants from over 300 organisations in 30 countries. PANAP held a forum focusing on globalisation and its effects on the land and resources of the rural poor—and began to situate itself in larger, more political struggles.
