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- Title
FAO Push against Pesticides.
- Authors
Dooley, Erin E.
- Abstract
Hazardous pesticides banned elsewhere, including methyl parathion, are still being sold in Southeast Asia, especially in Cambodia, and used without proper precautions. In 1993, the UN Food & Agricultural Organization (FAO) launched an innovative integrated pest management program in Southeast Asia. To further reduce human risk from pesticides, the FAO is staging field schools in which farmers learn about rice ecology and the effects of pesticides on ecosystems, and is showing farmers how to organize their own field schools so that information can be disseminated to an even greater audience.
- Subjects
SOUTHEAST Asia; PESTICIDES; FOOD &; Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; PUBLIC health; UNITED Nations
- Publication
Environmental Health Perspectives, 2001, Vol 109, Issue 9, pA 419
- ISSN
0091-6765
- Publication type
Article