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We, Toxicologists and Health Professionals, call for a global elimination of Highly Hazardous Pesticides.
Oct 25, 2022
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Many pesticides pose a threat to human health and the environment and result in heavy costs to societies. Due to their extensive use over a long period of time, highly hazardous pestici
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Appeal for a ban of highly hazardous pesticides
Oct 25, 2022
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Decades of experience has shown that, despite numerous ‘safe use’ programs, the ’safe use’ of highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) is not possible. Peop le, farmanimals, wildlife and the
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Agroecology in Africa : Challenges and Opportunities
Oct 25, 2022
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Concept Note The exploitation of forests, rangeland and cropland in the short term, led in many countries of Africa to a deterioration of the environment that was manifested in the degr
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Film on PAN Africa's agro-ecological farm at Beer, les Ndiayes (Thiés, Senegal) ( October 2023 )
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- -COTE D'IVOIRE: Pesticides that kill their users. KORHOGO, northern Côte d'Ivoire (IPS) - Pesticides are designed to insects and parasitic plants that destroy crops. But in some regions of northern Côte d'Ivoire, these chemicals are also killing farmers. are also killing farmers
- Mali: Nanguila poisoned by pesticides. The village of Nanguila, south of Bamako, has been poisoned by obsolete pesticides.
- Senegal: Food poisoning caused by pesticides in Saint Louis. Food poisoning: 25 young people admitted to emergency in Saint-Louis, an yet another case of food poisoning raises the question of the need to set up a poisons centre to diagnose such cases in time and offer appropriate treatment. appropriate treatment.