Pesticide Eco-Alternatives Center (PAN China)

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Pesticide Eco-Alternatives Center
(PAN China)

• Sun Jing

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Who we are?

• A Chinese domestic NGO
• Mission
• Collect, extend and advance ecological
  alternative forms of pest control, to eliminate
  the chemical pesticide pollution, to promote
  ecological agriculture and organic agriculture,
  so as to protect the health of human beings and
  the environment, as well as to promote the social
  and economic sustainable development.

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We Believe

• Pesticide is not the only or best choice to
  control pests
• Awareness can drive behavior
• Rural community, school, NGOs could be the main
  bodies to reduce/eliminate pesticide pollution.
• Pesticide reduction need support and active
  involvement of laws and regulations.

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What are we doing?

• Programme
• - Pesticide Health (High hazard pesticides)
• - Integrated Alternatives Approaches
• - Ecological Agriculture (rice, education,
  livelihood)
• - Climate change agriculture
• - GE crops food
• - Promotion

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• Working region
• Based in Kunming city of Yunnan province, and
  set vision to the whole China.
• Yunnan, Guizhou, Shannxi, Guangzhou,
  Xinjiang, Beijing, Sichuan, etc.

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Organization Structure
Governing Body
Steering Council
Administrative Finance
Executive management group
PME
Programme
Projects
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Capacity building to promote rural community to
involve in pesticide reduction-A case of
Chengguan village, Dali, Yunnan

• Background vegetable and rice water resource
  region of Erhai lake (2nd. Biggest fresh lake in
  Yunnan) farming depend on pesticide
• Aim reduce pesticide usage eliminate high toxic
  pesticide/illegal pesticide sustainable
  pesticide reduction work

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Results

• Stop use of highly toxic pesticides like
  Methamidophos, and reduce insecticide at least
  50.
• The use of organic fertilizers reached above 80
  of the used fertilizers.
• The leading farmers formed their own farmer
  training school authorized by local government,
  and organized farmers to carry out ecological
  farming practice, including use of traditional
  farming knowledge and methods like intercropping,
  rotating cropping, backlight trap for crop pests
  etc., and further reduce their reliance on
  agro-chemicals.
• Leading farmers learnt how to write proposal for
  their community development and finally they
  successfully fundraised for their training and
  ecological agriculture development.

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Outreach

• In the past three years crop pests did not lead
  to significant economic loss, For example, rice
  production ranges between 600-800KG/mu
  (1mu666m2) and per capita incomes increase by
  about RMB300 each year in the past two years.
• Selected by government to be Ecological Model
  Village in Dali, so as to sharing their
  experience to more villages.

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Promotion

• NGO/CSO
• Contain
• organizational capacity building facilitating to
  carry out related work information support, etc.
• Results
• Some of them has already taken the concrete
  action in pesticide action, for example
• The rural/urban prorgamme group of social work
  center of Yunnan University incorporated
  pesticide reduction and ecological rice farming
  into their project activities and invited PEAC
  staff to work together
• Center of Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge
• community project team used weed machine in
  place of Paraquat and advanced the organic tea in
  the south of Yunnan.
• Southwest Office of Heifer International China
  Programme
• Helped farmers with ecological vegetable
  farming around Kunming
• Some groups in GuiZhou,Shannxi,Henan and Beijing
  began action.

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• Education Aspects
• Contain
• Teachers capacity building community
  agro-biodiversity value and sustainable use
  agro-chemicals harms agro-environmental
  improvement,
• Results
• Incorporated into educational plan and curriculum
  of 2 rural Primary School, and some universities.
• Additionally, 3 Ph D graduates and 5 Master
  students has completed their dissertation
  research on the ecological alternatives and
  pesticide risk assessment at PEAC in the past 5
  years. Most of them continue such kind of work at
  their host institutions and universities

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• Cooperation with government
• Facilitating governmental sectors on advancing
  community based alternative pest management
  system and how to expand the ban of Methamidophos
  in the rural areas and how to ban/restrict
  Paraquat in China

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Thank you!
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Thank you!