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Pesticide risk assessment and management in a globally changing world. Report from a European interdisciplinary workshop

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Global climate change will affect worldwide agriculture in many ways. The anticipated or already occurring changes raise concerns about the sustainability of production and the ability of agriculture to feed human populations. This appeals to sustainable agriculture providing ecosystem services more efficiently than today, and accordingly to substantial evolutions of pesticide risk assessment (RA) and risk management (RM). The RA/RM issues were discussed by two European research networks in a 2011 workshop. The RA-RM-monitoring conceptual cycle tends to be virtual, with poor connections between certain steps. The design of more comprehensive emissions scenarios could improve the accuracy of predicted runoff transport, while the microcosm/mesocosm approach could help establish causal relationships between fate / exposure and populations / communities. Combined with ecological modelling, effects can be extrapolated to higher spatial and temporal scales. Risk management of diffuse sources should be designed simultaneously at the watershed and individual plot scales. Monitoring is key to assessing the effectiveness of risk reduction measures reduce and evaluate the overall quality of the aquatic compartment. More flexible monitoring strategies clearly linked to RM decisions are therefore needed. Although some technical questions remain, it is time to apply passive samplers more routinely. A set of research and development needs covering the whole RA/RM cycle is listed in conclusion.
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hal-00939126 , version 1 (30-01-2014)

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M. Babut, G. Arts, A. Barra Caracciolo, N. Carluer, N. Domange, et al.. Pesticide risk assessment and management in a globally changing world. Report from a European interdisciplinary workshop. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2013, 20 (11), p. 8298 - p. 8312. ⟨10.1007/s11356-013-2004-3⟩. ⟨hal-00939126⟩
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