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Environment and Health Impact Assessment of Pesticides Use for Public Policy Decision Support at Local Level

This study explores the impact of pesticide use on the environment and health, aiming to support public policy decision-making at the local level. It provides a conceptual framework, methodology, and results to raise awareness and promote sustainable agricultural practices.

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Environment and Health Impact Assessment of Pesticides Use for Public Policy Decision Support at Local Level

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  1. Environment and Health Impact Assessment of Pesticides Use for Public Policy Decision Support at Local Level Jittima Rodsawad Department of Health, Thailand

  2. Content • Background and objectives • Conceptual framework • Methodology • Results • Conclusionand recommendations

  3. Background

  4. Increase trend of importing pesticides • Unsafe uses of the pesticides • Inadequate knowledge and understanding of toxicity and dangersof pesticides • More severe impact from pesticides application

  5. Ineffective control measures - monitoring - law enforcement - man power • Inadequate control of advertisement of pesticides • Lack of reliable information system for decision making, especially in term of usages and impacts of agricultural at local level

  6. Objective

  7. EHIA model developmentto support decision making at local level

  8. Conceptual framework

  9. EHIA is used to support a decision making process and for learning process at local area • EHIA is consisted of several tools • EHIA provides knowledge, understanding and concerns among stakeholders

  10. Tung Tong Sub-District

  11. Methodology

  12. 1. Identifying and collecting information for key health, environment and economic-related problems and situation in the area

  13. 2. Involving stakeholders : • Local farmers • Community leaders • Members of Sub-district Administrative Organization • Volunteer health workers • Public health officers • Agricultural officers

  14. Biodiversity Analysis • Understanding of biodiversities • Survey of biodiversities in the community

  15. Biodiversity Analysis Activities • Specifying causes of destruction or threatened situation to biodiversities • Prioritization of species to be nearly extinct

  16. Biodiversity Analysis Activities • Analysis of species details to be conserved in the community

  17. Health Impact Analysis Activities • Understanding of pesticides situation

  18. Health Impact Analysis Activities • Analysis of the amount of pesticide used per year

  19. Health Impact Analysis • Analysis of health effects

  20. Health Impact Analysis • Analysis of health effects : Body Mapping

  21. Health Impact Analysis • Classification of types and hazard of pesticides

  22. Health Impact Analysis • Keeping and eradication of pesticide containers and health risk

  23. The Assessment Learning Process 3. Healthy Agricultural Field trips for knowledge sharing on best practise model in decreasing pesticides application

  24. The Assessment Learning Process 4. Participatory community planning process

  25. Results

  26. Pesticides are the main factor implicated in the deterioration of certain local food resources and biodiversity. · · • Although Endosulfan has been banned in Thailand for three years, local farmers can easily buy it. • Average pesticide and chemical fertilizers costs are around one-third of total production costs in rice production and one-fifth in sugarcane production. • 61.2% of farmers mix more than one pesticide into each spraying, leading to higher risks of exposure and toxicity.

  27. 67.1% of farmers used pesticides (spraying) by themselves. 62.3% of them used pesticides as much as 5000 litres annually · · • 69.1% of farmers never use eyeglasses or masks to protect their eyes. • 73.1% of farmers keep their pesticides in the places that children can easily reach • 43.0% of farmers have experienced "intermediate" health effects from pesticide spraying (e.g., blurred vision, spasmodic eyelids, choking feeling in the chest, squeamishness and vomit)

  28. New Targets for the Thoung-Thong Sub-district Development Plan • 2006: reduce pesticide uses by 30%. • 2009: 30% of rice and other farm products will be pesticide-free products. • 2015: all Thoung-Thong Sub-district will be pesticide-free area. • Increase organic fertilizer use to more than 2 tons/village to improve soil fertility and increase crop rotation in paddy fields by 30%.

  29. New Targets for the Thoung-Thong Sub-district Development Plan • Organize women farmer groups for healthy agriculture and income generating activities. • Save farmer households 5-10% annually in farm costs, through healthy agriculture alternatives.

  30. Approved a new budget supporting local farmers in experimenting with biological control methods to replace pesticides use · · • Set up local groups organized around pesticide-free agriculture • introduced the IPM-farmer field school approach • introduced a local course in primary care for pesticide-affected cases • Local farmers implemented less-pesticide practices in their own farms

  31. Conclusionand recommendations

  32. The assessment process framed around the values of “Healthy living together” provides the opportunity for all policy actors to exchange perspective and knowledge needs and to draw upon all relevant experiences in understanding of the multi-factorial health and environmental impacts caused by pesticides · · • It would support integration of health, environment, economic and social aspects into participatory planning process for alternative agriculture and pesticides reductions of the community

  33. It creats participation and empowerment mechanisms that give all stakeholders an appreciation of linkages between health, environment and ecosystems, society and economy. · · • Clarification of authority relationships among all stakeholders in policy processes should be an essential element of self-assessment and group learning models and exercises.

  34. A tool should be developed to guide and facilitate surveillance of pesticide use by local farmers and local administrations and cover the entire plant-to-harvest cycle, including pesticide disposal and environmental restoration. · · • Implementation of such a local tool over time, could be built into a broader provincial and national surveillance system, filling an important gap in existing surveillance mechanisms.

  35. Farmers and stakeholders need to be involved in follow-up, monitoring and evaluation of plans. · · • Developing policy networks inside and beyond the community can help reinforce and strengthen policy implementation.

  36. Acknowledgement Dr.Twisuk Punpeng Department of Health Ms. Theechat Boonyakarnkul Department of Health Mr.Marut Jatiket Thai Educational Foundation Mr.Anucha Ketcharoen Kampangpetch Rachabaj University Mr.Sakda Sriniwet Department of Extension Ms.Orapan Srisukwattana Health System Reform Office Ms.Umaporn Dangwiboon Department of Health Tung Tong Community and Relevant Officers

  37. Thank you for your attention

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