Special Topic: Pesticide Use in USAID Activities

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1 Special Topic: Pesticide Use in USAID Activities GEMS Environmental Compliance- ESDM Training Series Kabul July / August /1/2016 1

2 SESSION OBJECTIVES: Understand importance of pesticide use in USAID programming Food security, economic growth Vector control, public health Characterize adverse impacts of pesticide use on human health and the environment. Discuss USAID approach to assessing and mitigating impacts + preparation of compliance documentation. Understand pesticide safer use from partner perspective and discuss project-based best practices. 8/1/2016 2

3 PESTICIDE USE JESSICA SCRANTON Key input for increased agricultural production, can promote economic growth Used to protect food stocks, important aspect of food aid programming (e.g., FFP) Vector control efforts can improve public health PMI, Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) 8/1/2016 3

4 TYPICAL PESTICIDE USES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES In-field crop protection Household insect and structural pest control Treatment of export crops, fumigation of timber Spraying for mosquito and other disease vector control Stored product protection (seeds, food aid crops, etc.) Outbreak pest control locusts, rodents, etc. Dosing of lakes, ponds & lagoons to control disease vectors Insecticide treated bed nets Livestock tick control-dipping, spraying, pouring And other uses...

5 PESTICIDE SAFER USE + COMPLIANCE Pesticides are especially harmful to human and environmental health Pesticides are produced and formulated to kill USAID approaches pesticide use with extreme caution Dedicated portion of Reg CFR216.3(b) USAID Pesticide Procedures Pesticide Evaluation Report and Safer Use Action Plan: PERSUAP 8/1/2016 5

6 WHAT DO USAID S REGULATIONS REQUIRE? Simply stated... IF Pesticide procurement or use is part of a proposed activity, THEN: Additional environmental analysis is required More specifically...

7 PESTICIDE PROCUREMENT OR USE Procurement includes.. 1. Direct purchase of pesticides 2. Payment in kind, donations, provision of free samples and other forms of subsidies 3. Provision of credit to borrowers could be procurement 4. Guarantee of credit to banks or other credit providers could be procurement Use includes.. 1. Sale 2. Handling, transport, storage, 3. Mixing, loading, application 4. Disposal 5. Provision of fuel to transport pesticides 6. Technical assistance in pesticide management, including training

8 FERTILIZERS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO USAID S PESTICIDE PROCEDURES Fertilizers are often lumped with pesticides under the generic heading of agrochemicals. BUT the Pesticide Procedures do not apply to: Use of synthetic fertilizers Use of organic fertilizers Still, the EMMP can specify and identify good fertilizer use and soil fertility practices, Refer to USAID Sector Environmental Guidelines for agricultural best management practices.

9 REGULATION 216 AND PESTICIDE USE USAID Pesticide Procedures, 216.3(b), apply the principles of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) to every activity that involves or influences pesticide purchase or use.

10 WHAT IS INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT (IPM)? IPM is an ecologically-based pest management approach which prioritizes: - The health of crops and their ecological system; - Monitoring, degrees of intervention, reduced risk and low toxicity controls such as biological and botanical controls; - Actions required when pests reach economicallydamaging levels.

11 WHAT IS INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT? In IPM, the use of pesticide is a last resort. How to select IPM pest control options: Favor the least toxic controls The more selective the control the fewer non- target impacts. Safe for farmers and their families, safe for consumers, Safe for the ecosystem. *CGIAR policy statement on IPM

12 PESTICIDE EVALUATION REPORT & SAFER USE ACTION PLAN (PERSUAP) PERSUAP is triggered by an IEE determination and has two major parts that meet 216.3(b) Pesticide Procedures: Pesticide Evaluation Report & Safer Use Action Plan Response to the Pesticide Procedures requirements Identifies actions and actors for mitigation & monitoring, including compliance with host country & private** procedures

13 USAID PESTICIDE PROCEDURES When a project includes assistance for procurement or use, or both, of pesticides registered for the same or similar uses by USEPA without restriction, the Initial Environmental Examination for the project shall include a separate section evaluating the economic, social and environmental risks and benefits of the planned pesticide use to determine whether the use may result in significant environmental impact. Factors to be considered in such an evaluation shall include, but not be limited to the following: (a) The USEPA registration status of the requested pesticide; (b) The basis for selection of the requested pesticide; (c) The extent to which the proposed pesticide use is part of an integrated pest management program; (d) The proposed method or methods of application, including availability of appropriate application and safety equipment; (e) Any acute and long term toxicological hazards, either human or environmental, associated with the proposed use and measures available to minimize such hazards; (f) The effectiveness of the requested pesticide for the proposed use; (g) Compatibility of the proposed pesticide with target and non-target ecosystems; (h) The conditions under which the pesticide is to be used, including climate, flora, fauna, geography, hydrology, and soils; (i) The availability and effectiveness of other pesticides or nonchemical control methods; (j) The requesting country's ability to regulate or control the distribution, storage, use and disposal of the requested pesticide; (k) The provisions made for training of users and applicators; and (l) The provisions made for monitoring the use and effectiveness of the pesticide. 8/1/

14 OPEN DISCUSSION: Examples from the Field

15 Thank you 8/1/