The OECD Pesticide Risk Reduction Project aims to promote pesticide risk reduction and sustainable pest management. It encourages the development, adoption and implementation of advanced sustainable pest management strategies and policies, including risk reduction policies/practices and alternative approaches to the use of chemicals, as well as improved risk management and compliance/enforcement activities (in particular via the use of new pesticides with lower risk properties, of bio-pesticides and the adoption and implementation of IPM).

The objectives of the Project are:

• creating strategic opportunities that facilitate risk reduction,
• giving international credibility to risk reduction tools and measures,
• reaching out to other international groups active in pesticide risk reduction, and
• promoting communication on risk reduction.

The Project aims to promote pesticide risk reduction through various activities. It organises discussions, seminars or workshops on topics related to risk reduction so as to facilitate information exchange and to propose strategic options for risk reduction. The Project also creates opportunities for outreach to important stakeholders and fora, and works on ways to evaluate progress in risk reduction efforts.

To date (and since 1994), the Project has addressed or is currently addressing the following issues that are closely related to pesticide risk reduction:

• Managing Pesticide Spray Drift;
• Pesticide Risk Indicators (and underlying pesticide use/sales statistics);
• Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
• Pesticide Compliance and Enforcement 

 

Risk Reduction Seminar Series

Since 2003, the Project has organised a Risk Reduction Seminar series in order to focus on key issues in pesticide risk reduction of concern to OECD governments. The Seminars are intended to provide an opportunity for discussion, learning and information sharing.  To date, seminars on the following topics have been organised.

 

#	Date/Location	Event Title	Related Documents
14	December 2014, Paris	Risk Reduction and Pesticide Non-professional Uses	Series on Pesticides No. 88 Main report PPTs
13	November 2012, Queenstown	Indicators for Integrated Pest Management (IPM)	Series on Pesticides No. 75 Main report PPTs
12	May 2010, Paris	Risk Reduction through Prevention, Detection and Control of the Illegal International Trade in Agricultural Pesticides	Series on Pesticides No. 59 Main report PPTs
11	November 2009, Tokyo	Pesticide Risk Reduction Strategies near/in Residential Areas	Series on Pesticides No. 58 Main report PPTs
10	February 2009, San Francisco	Pesticide Risk Reduction through Better National Risk Management Strategies for Aerial Application	Series on Pesticides No. 50 Main report Annex 3: Part 1  Part 2               Part 3  Part 4
9	June 2008, Paris	Risk Reduction through Spray Drift Reduction Strategies as Part of National Risk Management	Series on Pesticides No. 46: Main report Complete report (incl. ppts - 15 MB)
8	November 2007, Mexico City	Risk Reduction through Education / Training the Trainers	Series on Pesticides No. 45: Main report Complete report (incl. ppts - 20 MB)
7	March 2007,Brno	Risk Reduction through Better Worker Safety and Training	Series on Pesticides No. 42: Part 1 Part 2
6	November 2006, Bonn	Joint OECD/EC Seminar on Harmonised Environmental Indicators for Pesticide Risk (HAIR)	Series on Pesticides No. 40
5	November 2005, Wellington	Pesticide Risk Reduction through Better Application Technology	Series on Pesticides No. 35
4	March 2005, Paris	Risk Reduction through Good Pesticide Labelling	Series on Pesticides No. 29
3	June 2004, Bonn	Pesticide Risk Reduction through Good Container Management	Series on Pesticides No. 28 PPT
2	November 2003, Canberra	Minor Uses and Pesticide Risk Reduction	Series on Pesticides No. 26
1	March 2003, Paris	Compliance and Risk Reduction	Series on Pesticides No. 24: Main report Annex 2, Part A Annex 2, Part B

 

Past Surveys and Activities (1994-2006) on Pesticide Risk Reduction Activities

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