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Book (stand-alone)A regional approach to the implementation of the Rotterdam Convention (2007-2008) 2008
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No results found.FAO is committed to environmentally friendly agricultural production. In cooperation with its partners, the Organization has been working on developing tools and programmes to help countries manage pesticides more effectively and to move towards sustainable agriculture. The Rotterdam Convention is one of many concrete examples of FAO's commitment to helping its partners, particularly developing countries, achieve sustainable agricultural production and address the challenging problems associated with pesticide use. The first key objective of the Rotterdam Convention is to promote shared responsibility among its members in the international trade of hazardous chemicals, both pesticides and industrial chemicals. The second key objective is to contribute to the environmentally sound use of hazardous chemicals by facilitating information exchange among the parties concerned and by providing for a national decision-making process on their import and export. For the last few years, many co untries in Asia and the Pacific have made significant efforts to improve their national infrastructure for the management of pesticides and chemicals. The Convention has played a crucial role in assisting governments in coping with this task. This publication presents the experiences of various countries in this region in relation to the implementation of the Rotterdam Convention. The reports reflect the progress which has been made and the steps which remain to be undertaken to achieve the two key objectives of the Convention. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetStrengthening capacities to address harmful pesticides: how the Rotterdam Convention is working in Latin America 2018
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This brochure describes a series of projects carried out in Colombia, Panama, Dominican Republic and Honduras during 2013-2017 to improve their implementation of the Rotterdam Convention and notably their response to incidents involving severely hazardous pesticide formulations (SHPFs). The projects were planned and run by the countries themselves, with technical support from the Rotterdam Secretariat. All four countries are Parties to the Convention, and the goal was to help them fulfil the resulting obligations. The technical support gave the countries a better understanding of the problem, enhanced the capacities of the personnel engaged in the different activities, and introduced better technologies, such as digital surveillance systems and mobile applications to improve the recording of data on pesticide incidents. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetMise en oeuvre de la Convention de Rotterdam à travers une collaboration régionale en Afrique de l'Ouest
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2018The objective of this report is to describe the administrative and operational aspects of the collaborative CSP-DNA programme in West Africa and to assess its impact on national implementation of the Convention. The case of CILSS is further used to try to identify conditions that are important for regional collaborative programmes on the Rotterdam Convention to be effective elsewhere.
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