Objective
There is a great need for more information about the environmental impact of pesticides. Their have been various attempts to develop scoring and ranking systems which describe the environmental impact of pesticides. Most of these scoring and ranking systems are developed to give farmers advise on the environmental impact of pesticides, but others are used to compare various farming systems or to advise policy making. Some of them are already used in practice, others are still in development.
The project is a concerted action to exchange information between European research groups and to reach consensus on methods to translate data on the environmental impact of pesticides into a ranking or scoring system. The specific objectives of this concerted action are:
- to compare and discuss existing methods of scoring and ranking pesticides according to their environmental impact;
- to formulate recommendations for the improvement of existing methods in relation to the purposes for which they can be used;
- to disseminate results to other interested organisations which can benefit from it.
During the concerted action participants will describe the methods they have developed. The papers will be reviewed by the other partners. Then a common database is compiled of 15 to 20 pesticides. Participants will rank these pesticides according to their environmental impact with the use the methods described. In a workshop the outcomes are discussed and recommendations for improvements and applications are drawn up. The papers and the results of the workshops are laid down in a final report which will be discussed in a European conference with participation of persons and organisations interested in the application of these ranking systems. The report and the proceedings of the conference will be published and widely distributed.
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- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture
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3505 UTRECHT
Netherlands
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