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An investigation of the difference between individuals who directly purchase pesticides from shops for suicide attempts and suicide deaths versus those who access pesticides from an individual’s house or nearby environment.
A unique community based project that engaged rural communities in India in prevention of pesticide suicide has come to a successful end.
CPSP consultant Dr Dilli Ram Sharma shares two interesting stories collected from recent conversations with pesticide vendors in Nepal.
A woman walks into a pesticide shop in Sri Lanka asking to buy something strong that will kill insects quickly. After she leaves, the salesperson tells her husband that the woman looked suspicious; she fears that the pesticide has been bought for the wrong reason.
Moves to transition farms in an Indian state to organic practices have reduced pesticide use among farmers, an evaluation of the programme has shown.
This paper provides an evaluation of the Andhra Pradesh Community-managed Natural Farming (APCNF) programme in south India. The study found that moves to transition farms in an Indian state to organic farming practices have reduced pesticide use among farmers.
This protocol provides an overview of a ‘gatekeeper’ training programme for pesticide vendors to enable them to identify individuals at high risk of self-poisoning. The primary aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the training in preventing pesticide self-poisoning in Sri Lanka.
In this study, we aimed to investigate factors associated with purchasing pesticides for self-poisoning in Sri Lanka to inform policies and guide the design of appropriate interventions to reduce access to pesticides for self-poisoning.
This paper summarizes the findings of pilot study to test the feasibility and acceptability of vendor-based restrictions on pesticide sales for such high-risk individuals. This intervention has the potential to reduce access to pesticides for self-poisoning.