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The Environmental Impact Quotient, EIQ, is one of numerous pesticide risk indicator models developed to rate potential hazardous impacts on human health and the environment of different pesticide use regimes. The EIQ takes into account toxicity information on the inherent potential of the active ingredient as well as actual application [...]

The Regional Training on Biological Control (RTBC), co-organized by Thailand DoAE and the FAO Vegetable IPM Programme, was held in Khon Kaen from 9-20 July 2007. Twenty six participants from nine countries (Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam) participated.The activities included (i) country presentations, (ii) [...]

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a multifaceted, ecologically-based strategy that relies on close observation and monitoring of a crop before making management decisions. IPM combines a number of techniques to effectively suppress plant diseases and insect pests in an economically and environmentally conscious manner. Utilizing IPM to manage plant diseases [...]

The contribution of community-based interventions, including farmer field schools (FFSs) in integrated pest management (IPM), to reducing pesticide exposures and associated neurotoxic burden among smallfarm families in Ecuador was assessed in three Andean farming communities in a co-design of targeted action–research. Baseline questionnaire surveys elicited pesticide-related knowledge, practices, and exposure [...]

Workshop Report Under the project “Pesticide Risk Reduction in South East Asia”, an impact assessment workshop was held in Ho Chi Minh City from 23 to 25 July, 2007. It was attended by 10 participants from China, Cambodia and Vietnam. The participants included independent impact assessment leaders from the Royal University of Agriculture in Phnom [...]

The workshop focused on the development of a regional conceptual framework for curriculum development for pesticide risk reduction training. The workshop was also aimed at strengthening capacities of member countries to carry out these activities. The workshop included introductory presentations on risk reduction and the link between impact assessment and curriculum [...]

This paper presents an application of a difference in differences model to measure environmental and economic impacts of Farmer Field School on crop and pest management practices of rice in Thailand. Panel data from 241 farm households were collected three times over a period of four years in five rice-producing [...]

In January 2001, the growers, several state agencies and other parties signed a memorandum of agreement to transition the industry towards integrated pest management. The study we report on here was associated with that effort and had four objectives: 1) Estimate observer error and quantify efficacy of the current burrowing [...]

Crop productivity has increased worldwide since the late 1950s thanks to the modernisation of agriculture. However, many small-scale farming systems located in regions with limited access to resources have seen their profitability constrained by the intensification of input use. The rain-fed cotton farming sector in South and Central India provides [...]

This paper presents an application of a two and three stages difference in differences model to measure environmental and economic impacts of Farmer Field School on crop and pest management practices of rice in Thailand. Panel data from 241 farm households were collected three times over a period of four [...]