Weathering the climate crisis: the way of ecological agriculture
This new report by Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP) focuses on agriculture as the most vulnerable sector to climate change. It discusses how abrupt changes in the weather are threatening the livelihood of people in the Asia-Pacific region mainly small-scale and subsistence farmers and landless workers, fishers and indigenous peoples.
The report also confronts the current system of corporate-promoted chemical- and energy-intensive agriculture and globalized agricultural trade as the main culprit in worsening the climate change; and proves that sustainable or ecological agriculture, based on biological diversity and non-chemical inputs, help reduce carbon emissions, improve farm productivity, stability and environmental quality and thus enhance the resilience and livelihood of the farmers and the rural poor.