The East African Community (EAC) – consisting of eight partner states – has officially adopted a new strategy on managing highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs).
At this year’s Oxford Real Farming Conference, Mark Davis, CPSP’s Director for Agriculture and Regulatory Outreach, shares his reflections on why pesticide use continues to rise globally, and what it will take to shift towards safer, more sustainable alternatives.
A scoping review to identify pesticide suicide surveillance methods currently used in African countries and to assess their viability for improving reporting of pesticide suicide deaths.
This study investigates the scale and causes of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning among cotton farmers in Tanzania and identifies policy and safer pesticide alternatives.
This protocol outlines a scoping review to investigate how pesticide suicide deaths in Africa are recorded by exploring the various surveillance systems in place.