Activities focused on alternatives

By delivering technical assistance, the Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention, in collaboration with various partners, helps countries to undertake concerted actions towards pesticide risk reduction, including through safer alternatives and techniques for managing pests. Some of the activities that have been implemented by means of technical assistance include:

2022
The importance of using alternatives
to reduce the risks posed by highly
hazardous pesticides in NENA region 		     
    
African workshop on fenthion: risks
and alternatives for quelea birds
control 		  
     
         

2021

        
Alternatives to fenthion for quelea bird
control in Africa		     Alternatives to paraquat dichloride in
weed management		  
     
         
Integrated pest management: theory
and practice		     Strategies to reduce the use of highly
hazardous pesticides		  
     
         
Registration of biopesticides:
challenges and opportunities		        
       
         

Prior 2020

        
Multi-stakeholder workshop on a
national road map for paraquat
dichloride management in Indonesia
and implementation of the Rotterdam
Convention - 2019		     Training and capacity building related
to the recognition of asbestos-related
diseases (diagnosis, surveillance and
registration of mesothelioma cases),
developing related legislation and
promoting use of safer alternatives to
asbestos, Manila, Philippines -2019		  
     
         
Interview, group discussions and
field visit for the video shooting
and community radio broadcast
on pesticide use, alternatives and
community empowerment in
Guinea Bissau - 2018		     National discussion and capacity
building on alternatives to hazardous
chemicals in the framework of the
Rotterdam Convention,
Sao Tomé and Príncipe - 2018
  
     
         
Workshop on the Identification of
alternatives to fenthion on quelea
bird control, Sudan - 2017		     Identification of alternatives to
hazardous pesticides in Cambodian
farmer field schools - 2018		  
     
         
Sustainable alternatives to highly
hazardous pesticides farmers
experience in growing coffee
without endosulfan - 2014		     Sub-regional multi-stakeholder workshop
for Pacific Island countries on alternatives
to newly listed and candidate pesticides
under the Rotterdam Convention - 2016		  

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