Handbook for community based pesticide action monitoring corporate accountability and international advocacy

This handbook provides information and monitoring tools to carry out community monitoring focused on collecting information on the situation at the local level on how pesticides are used and their impacts. And using the documentation from the monitoring for national and international advocacy. It outlines a monitoring and documenting approach, based on Community Pesticide Action Monitoring (CPAM). Elements of corporate accountability has also been added to the tools/questionnaires as corporations are among the biggest violators of human rights. The handbook focuses on four international instruments: (i) The Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade (ii) The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (iii) The International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management (The Code) (iv) The Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM)

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Title Handbook for community based pesticide action monitoring corporate accountability and international advocacy
Description This handbook provides information and monitoring tools to carry out community monitoring focused on collecting information on the situation at the local level on how pesticides are used and their impacts. And using the documentation from the monitoring for national and international advocacy. It outlines a monitoring and documenting approach, based on Community Pesticide Action Monitoring (CPAM). Elements of corporate accountability has also been added to the tools/questionnaires as corporations are among the biggest violators of human rights. The handbook focuses on four international instruments: (i) The Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade (ii) The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (iii) The International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management (The Code) (iv) The Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM)
Agroecology Category
  • Input reduction and recycling
  • Biodiversity
Agroecology Keyword
  • Bio-pesticide
  • Chemical input control
  • Crop protection
  • Input reduction
  • Integrated pest management
  • Environmental protection
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Author
Year 2015
Type of document Practical how-to
Language English
Country Asia
Administrative Level 1
Administrative Level 2
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