Agricultural practices often involve tank-mixing and co-application of insecticides with fungicides to control crop pests. However, natural methods relying on biological control agents such as hymenopteran parasitoids have been shown to be highly effective in suppressing crop pest populations. The current body of insecticide risk assessment data ac...
Misuse and poor handling of chemical pesticides in agriculture is hazardous to the health of farmers, consumers, and to the environment. We studied the pest and disease management practices and the type of pesticides used in four root, tuber, and banana (RTB) crops in Rwanda and Burundi through in-depth interviews with a total of 811 smallholder fa...
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Faced with health, environmental, and socio-economic issues related to the heavy use of pesticides, diffuse phytosanitary pollution becomes a major concern shared by all the field actors. These actors, namely the farmers and territorial managers, have expressed the need to implement decision support tools for the territorial management of diffuse p...
Fiche de présentation du logiciel de calcul de 2 indicateurs, l'IRSA (Indicateur de Risque sur la Santé de l'Applicateur) et l'IRTE (Indicateur de Risque de Toxicité pour l'Environnement) à partir des propriétés des matières actives et des produits commerciaux. Le modèle propose une gestion multi-échelles, de la parcelle au bassin versant, et une g...
