At the end of 2019 and start of 2020, CPSP’s researcher Maxine Brassell obtained data from all three sites and began establishing a picture of the ...
Press Release - States must stop exporting unwanted toxic chemicals to poorer countries says UN expert.pdf GENEVA (XX July 2020) – The practice of wealthy States exporting their banned toxic chemicalsto poorer nations lacking the capacity to control the risks is deplorable and must end, a UN expertsaid today, with the endorsement of 35 fellow experts...
CPSP works in Maharashtra to collect data regarding insecticide poisoning deaths across regions of the state. ...
Bans of HHP will not prevent all suicidal deaths if patients are treated by doctors as if they have ingested potentially lethal pesticides, since treatment for these patients can be hazardous in its own right. We will therefore work with the World Health Organisation to develop international and then national guidelines for the management of...
Component parts of the United Nations working on highly hazardous pesticides (FAO, WHO, UNEP) provide technical advice to countries and offer the most effective route to international change and impact, particularly through governing bodies: the World Health Assembly and FAO Conference. CPSP works with the WHO and FAO looking at suicide prevention (WHO) and pesticide regulation...
Removing highly hazardous pesticides from agriculture requires cultural change, including movement to integrated pest management and agroecology methods which preserve natural predators while minimising pesticide use. We support these efforts in a modest way, always trying to identify pivotal points where modest investment of time, people or funds offers the potential for significant impact. ...
A key aim of CPSP’s work on pesticide regulation is to increase capacity for effective pesticide regulation at national level. CPSP aims to increase its work outside of Nepal and India by engaging with regional pesticide regulation bodies, for example the Coordinating Group of Pesticide Control Boards of the Caribbean (CGPC), the Southern African Pesticide...
