It discussed the benefits, adoption challenges, and policy options for scaling up biopesticides and implementing agroecological approaches with a focus on chlorpyrifos.
- Ludovic Bernaudat (Head Knowledge and Risk Unit, Chemicals and Health Branch, UNEP)
- Shweta Dabholkar (Project and Policy Officer, Center for Pesticide Suicide Prevention)
- Tadesse Amer (Co-Coordinator, Pesticide Action Network International)
- Souleymane Yougbare (Technical Director, National Council of Organic Agriculture in Burkina Faso)
- Jayakody Arachchige Sumith (Pesticide Registrar, Ministry of Agriculture, Sri Lanka)
- Addisu Tibebu (Head Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Desk, Environnement Protection Authority Ethiopia and National Focal Point to Stockholm Convention)
- Christine Fuell (Executive Secretary ad interim of the Rotterdam Convention – FAO)
Related:
13 December 2021. Registration of biopesticides: challenges and opportunities.
Biopesticides are being increasingly used across the world. They are a heterogenous group of living organisms or natural substances, which includes microorganisms, biochemicals and semiochemicals, which vary markedly in their basic properties (composition, mode of action, environmental behaviour, etc.). There is no reason to believe a priori that all biopesticides – and more in general all biocontrol agents - are intrinsically safe. Therefore, requirements for registration are needed, not only to ensure human and environmental safety, but also to ensure their quality and effectiveness. However, very often the registration of biopesticides has been based on systems designed originally for chemical pesticides, something that has generated burdensome costs and technical difficulties on the applicant companies and eventually limited the development and commercialization of these alternative pesticides.
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