PAN Europe - About Us

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PAN Europe is a network of grass roots organisations working to replace the use of hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound alternatives.

Our network brings together consumer, public health, and environmental organisations, trades unions, women's groups and farmer associations from across 19 European countries.

We work to eliminate dependency on chemical pesticides and to support safe sustainable pest control methods. PAN Europe is committed to bringing about a substantial reduction in pesticide use throughout Europe. Pesticide (including biocides) reduction is a prerequisite for improvements of public and workers health, protection of the environment, and its strict implementation is in line with the precautionary principle.

PAN Europe's vision is of a world in which high agricultural productivity is achieved by truly sustainable agricultural production systems in which agrochemical inputs and environmental damage are minimised, and where local people control local production using local varieties.