This webinar, under the FARM Knowledge Series, provides an opportunity to discuss the challenges policymakers face in implementing HHP reduction strategies, drawing on real-world experiences from different countries around the world. The audience discussed what is working, where the key policy gaps remain, and what practical steps different actors can take to support more realistic and sustainable pathways away from reliance on HHP, including through the exchange of lessons learned from various national experiences: Sri Lanka, Botswana, and India.
Watch the recording here.
Key documents and materials presented in the session (Click the Download button)
Presentations of speakers
Mentimeter survey result: “What are the biggest barriers to phasing out HHPs in your country?”
FARM, CABI, and PAN UK thank all speakers and the moderator for their valuable time and contribution to the webinar: Jeevani Marasinghe, Registrar of Pesticides, Office of the Registrar of Pesticides, Department of Agriculture, Sri Lanka; Esaiah Tjele, Programme Officer Crops, Secretariat of the Southern African Development Community, Botswana; Gagnesh Sharma, Director, National Centre for Organic and Natural Farming, Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, India; Sheila Willis, Head of International Programmes, PAN UK; Alex Stuart, International Project Manager (Agroecology), PAN UK; Robert Malek, Pesticide Risk Reduction Expert, CABI; Melanie Bateman, Global Lead Synthetic Pesticides, CABI.