Number of documents: 23
Tomato Integrated Pest Management : an Ecological Guide
Training material
2000 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Frederike Praasterink, Jan Ketelaar
The ecological guides are technical reference manuals. They give background information and refer to exercises/studies that can be done in the field during training of trainers (TOT), farmers field schools (FFS) and action research to better understand a topic. The information in the guides is not specific for one country. [...]
English
Production system: Vegetables and Melons
Claim no easy victories: Evaluating the Pesticide Industry's Global Safe Use Campaign
Case study
2000 - World Development - Gerd Walter-Echols, Harry van der Wulp
The pesticide industry's Global Safe Use campaign has reportedly produced a
dramatic decline in pesticide-related health and environmental problems in Guatemala. This paper challenges this claim, reanalyzing existing data and further evaluating claims of the campaign's efficacy.
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Acute Pesticide Poisoning: A Major Global Health Problem
Case study
1990 - World Health Statistics Department - J. Jeyaratnam
A global 1990 analysis on pesticides and the dangers they cause to health and crops.
Global -
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