This manual addresses the urgent need for safer and more sustainable farming by promoting organic and agroecological practices. It aims to equip farmers, particularly women, with practical, low-cost methods for pest management that restore biodiversity, improve soil health, and reduce reliance on toxic chemicals.
A practical manual of low-cost solutions for managing pests without toxic chemicals aimed to help restore biodiversity, improve soil health, and preserve traditional agricultural knowledge, written in Hausa and English.
Africa needs to find ways to enable its population to lead better lives. This includes access to healthy and sustainably produced food. This policy paper takes a closer look at the role of synthetic fertilizers in African food systems.
The Pesticide Atlas is a comprehensive overview of facts and figures on global pesticide production and consumption, its impact on people, biodiversity and the climate, and alternative solutions.
Considering the danger of Highly Hazardous Pesticides, especially to women farmers, the Smallscale Women Farmers Association in Nigeria (SWOFON) conducted a snapshot survey of pesticide usage among its members. The survey is aimed at evaluating the potential pesticide-related risk to women farmers as well as aiding in informed advocacy for better food and human safety policies.
This second volume of our Nigerian pesticides study provides evidence to support a process of withdrawing highly hazardous pesticides from the Nigerian market, based on their toxicity to human health and the environment, and to promote safer alternatives to chemical pesticides for crop and pest management.
Industrial agriculture is responsible for both colossal environmental and climate damage as well as global injustice. It is high time for a socially and politically oriented regulation of the agrifood industry. We hope that this atlas will stimulate a broad-based social debate on this vital topic.
