Guidance on alternative strategies for sustainable pest and

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MB vector management: Reducing and Eliminating the use of

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ID Secretariat of the Basel Convention

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Table of contents

Preface .. 5

Introduction .. 7

Chapter 1. Chapter 1.

Reducing/Eliminating the use of POPs pesticides and selecting alternative management strategies:

a roadmap . 17

Chapter 2.

Approaches of choice - Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and Integrated Vector Management (IVM)

. 25

Chapter 3.

Specific aspects of pest and vector management 43

3.1 Pesticide policy reform in support of IPM and IVM. 43

3.2 The costs of changing pest control strategies - and the costs of not changing 44

3.3 Pesticide resistance .. 46

3.4 Pesticide stocks and the obsolete pesticide problem.. 48

3.5 Farmer Field Schools 50

3.6 Capacity building in intersectoral collaboration . 52

3.7 Eliminating the use of POPs pesticides against termites .. 55

Chapter 4. Chapter 4. .. 57

Case studies

4.1 Comparing bio-environmental management and indoor residual spraying for malaria control in

India 57

4.2 Water management for malaria control in Sri Lanka 59

4.3 Malaria control in the Philippines 61

4.4 Dengue control using copepods in Viet Nam 61

4.5 Integrated management of Japanese encephalitis vectors 62

4.6 Mexico's action plan to eliminate the use of DDT in malaria control .. 63

4.7 Controlling termites in Australia .. 66

4.8 Cotton in Sudan - IPM as response to the pesticide treadmill 70

4.9 IPM of the coffee berry borer . 71

4.10 Phasing out methyl bromide - an on-going parallel process 72

4.11 Pesticide reduction schemes in Europe 72

4.12 Obsolete pesticides and associated

contaminated materials in Ethiopia 74

Annexes Annexes .. 77

Annex 1. Residue levels of POPs pesticides: tables A1-A4 78

Annex 2. Selected bibliography, grouped by subject 79

Annex 3. Selected international organizations and networks.. 82

Annex 4. Internet resources on specific issues . 86

Annex 5. Glossary and acronyms 88