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Addressing Pesticide Challenges in Agriculture for Health and Poverty Alleviation

Explore the challenges, strong points, and next steps in a case study on pesticide use in intensive agricultural systems. Identify how the poor are affected and suggest practical recommendations for safer pesticide practices. Additional research needed on the health impacts in waterlogged environments.

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Addressing Pesticide Challenges in Agriculture for Health and Poverty Alleviation

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  1. Pesticides, Health, and Poverty Further Perspectives

  2. Presentation Overview • Challenges in the case study • Strong points in the findings • Next steps • Shaping the recommendations

  3. Challenges in the Case Study

  4. Challenges in the Case Study • Study area typified by intensive agricultural systems • Regional behavior study / nationally relevant conclusions • Survey covers land owners (decision makers) but not landless (pesticide users?) • It is more difficult to assess health impacts • Multi-sectoral agriculture-health study

  5. 2. Strong points in the study

  6. Strong points in the study • Poor use less pesticides than the non-poor, but the chemicals are more toxic. • Poor are very aware of risks • Poor have less access to training • e.g. safe handling of pesticides training; poor 29%, non-poor 34%

  7. 3. Next steps

  8. Need for more research: Difficult to establish causality for pesticide-health linkages in water logged environment Next steps Water Environment Poverty Health Pesticides

  9. 4. Shaping the recommendations

  10. How to provide the poor with more practical solutions on safer pesticide use through Strategic extension messages Training Shaping the Recommendations

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