“北美农药行动网络”（Pesticide Action & Agroecology Network, PAN）成立于 1982 年，总部设在美国加利福尼亚州奥克兰市，是全球农药行动网络的五个区域中心之一。组织的英文缩写 PAN 既代表 “Pesticide Action Network”（农药行动网络），也代表 “Pesticide & Agroecology Network”（农药与农业生态网络），后者更准确地反映了其当前工作方向。PAN 长期致力于推动从依赖化学农药的工业化农业，向以”农业生态学”为原则的可持续粮食体系转型，捍卫农民、农场工人和农村社区的健康与权益。
历史沿革与组织背景
PAN 的创立源于对”绿色革命”模式的反思。1982 年，来自世界各地的关切人士在马来西亚槟城召开会议，揭露跨国农药公司通过推销杂交种子与高强度化学品让无力负担的农民陷入”农药踏车”的恶性循环。成立后的前二十年，PAN 推动多国禁用了”十二大肮脏农药”（Dirty Dozen Pesticides），并在印度尼西亚推广”农民田间学校”项目，将传统生态防虫知识与社区互助模式结合，到 2002 年已有超过一百万印尼农民参与。此后，PAN 进入转基因种子、抗草甘膦除草剂与生物技术专利化的新战线，将南方国家的抗争与美国本土的食物主权运动联结起来。
使命愿景与核心价值观
PAN 的使命是”终结对有害农药的依赖，实现食品与农业的健康、韧性与公正”。组织以”基层科学、战略传播、联盟组织”三大策略推进工作，强调”协作、公平、团结”三项核心价值观：协作强调与受影响社区共享科学、传播与组织技能；公平强调将领导权与权力让渡给一线社区、主动检视自身特权；团结强调与 PAN International 及全球南方伙伴保持坚定同盟，并就食物体系内外的系统性压迫公开表态。组织在治理层面将多元化、平等与包容（JEDI）贯穿于人事、董事会与项目决策全过程。
三大工作方向：农药与健康、农药与气候、食物与农业
PAN 的项目围绕三大相互交织的方向展开。”农药与健康”聚焦美国农业州农场工人、乡村社区、有色人种社区与儿童所承受的农药暴露风险，关注癌症、内分泌干扰、神经发育损伤、帕金森病等长期健康危害，推动”预防原则”取代企业自证安全。”农药与气候”指出当前农食体系贡献了全球三分之一的温室气体排放，气候变化又迫使农民加大农药与化肥投入、形成恶性循环，PAN 主张通过”公正转型”框架同时回应气候与农药双重危机。”食物与农业”则倡导”食物主权”原则，反对种子专利化与农化巨头对供应链的垄断，支持以农业生态学为原则的本地化可持续生产。
国际网络、资源出版与公众参与
PAN 是 PAN International 全球网络的北美区域中心，与非洲、亚洲、拉丁美洲及欧洲的区域中心协同推进国际农药限制与农业生态学推广，并通过联合国粮农组织（UN FAO）等平台推动对高危农药的全球禁用与逐步淘汰承诺。组织维护公开资源库，涵盖年度报告、农药与儿童健康、生殖健康、农药漂移监测、蜜蜂保护、农业生态学案例研究等议题；季度新闻通讯与年度财政报告（最新为 2024-2025 年报）均向公众免费下载。公众可通过线上行动呼吁、捐款、参加”无毒学校”与”拯救蜜蜂”等运动参与；州层面工作覆盖爱荷华、明尼苏达、加利福尼亚等主要农业州。机构不接受农药、生物技术或化石燃料企业的资助以保持独立性。
Pesticide Action & Agroecology Network (PAN) North America was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Oakland, California. It is one of five regional centers of the global Pesticide Action Network. The acronym PAN now stands for both “Pesticide Action Network” and “Pesticide & Agroecology Network,” reflecting the organization’s evolving focus. PAN works to end reliance on hazardous pesticides and to build healthy, resilient, and just food and farming systems.
History and Organizational Background
PAN was born out of a critique of the Green Revolution model. At its 1982 founding meeting in Penang, Malaysia, activists from around the world exposed how chemical-intensive, monoculture agriculture and high-input hybrid seeds trapped farmers in a “pesticide treadmill” they could not afford. In its first two decades, PAN helped push many countries to ban the “Dirty Dozen” highly hazardous pesticides and supported community-based “Farmer Field Schools” in Indonesia, where Indigenous ecological knowledge was woven into new pest management systems; by 2002 more than one million Indonesian farmers had participated. In the 1990s, PAN broadened its work to address genetically engineered seeds and the corporate patenting of the food supply.
Mission, Vision, and Core Values
PAN’s mission is to end reliance on hazardous pesticides and achieve health, resilience, and justice in food and farming. The organization advances this mission through three integrated strategies: grassroots science, strategic communications, and coalition organizing. Its core values are collaboration, equity, and solidarity. Collaboration means sharing scientific, communications, and organizing skills in equitable partnership with impacted communities. Equity means actively examining and curtailing the organization’s own power and privilege. Solidarity means maintaining active alliances with PAN International and partners in the Global South, and taking public positions on systemic oppression in the food system and beyond.
Three Program Areas: Pesticides & Health, Pesticides & Climate, Food & Farming
PAN organizes its work around three interconnected program areas. The Pesticides & Health program documents the disproportionate pesticide exposure borne by farmworkers, rural communities, communities of color, and children in major U.S. agricultural states, and advocates for the Precautionary Principle to replace the current system that allows manufacturers to provide their own safety research. The Pesticides & Climate program links agriculture’s one-third share of global greenhouse gas emissions to the climate-driven escalation of pesticide use, and promotes a Just Transition framework that addresses both crises together. The Food & Farming program defends food sovereignty and challenges the patenting of seeds and the corporate capture of the food system, championing agroecology as a viable alternative.
Global Network, Resources, and Public Participation
PAN North America is the U.S. and Canada-based regional center of PAN International, a network of independently run sister organizations across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe. PAN engages with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and international coalitions to advocate for global bans and phase-outs of highly hazardous pesticides. The organization maintains a public resource library covering pesticide exposure, children’s health, reproductive health, pesticide drift monitoring, pollinator protection, agroecology case studies, and the links between pesticides and climate change, and publishes seasonal newsletters and annual reports (the most recent being 2024–2025) that are freely available online. State-level work is concentrated in major agricultural states including Iowa, Minnesota, and California. PAN maintains its independence by declining funding from pesticide, biotechnology, and fossil fuel corporations.
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