International projects
Functional tools for Pesticide Risk assessment and management
Researchers (2)
| no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
14231 |
PhD Matevž Pompe |
Chemistry |
Researcher |
2006 - 2009 |
274 |
| 2. |
08857 |
PhD Irena Rogelj |
Animal production |
Researcher |
2006 - 2009 |
706 |
Organisations (2)
Abstract
FOOTPRINT aims at developing a suite of three pesticide risk prediction and management tools, for use by three different end-user communities: farmers and extension advisors at the farm scale, water managers at the catchment scale and policy makers/registration authorities at the national/EU scale.The tools will be based on state-of-the-art knowledge of processes, factors and landscape attributes influencing pesticide fate in the environment and will integrate innovative components, which will allow users to:i) identify the dominant contamination pathways and sources of pesticide contamination in the landscape;ii) estimate pesticide concentrations in local groundwater resources and surface water abstraction sources;iii) make scientifically-based assessments of how the implementation of mitigation strategies will reduce pesticide contamination of adjacent water resources.The three tools will share the same overall philosophy and underlying science and will therefore provide a coherent and integrated solution to pesticide risk assessment and risk reduction from the scale of the farm to the EU scale. The predictive reliability and usability of the tools will be assessed through a substantial programme of piloting and evaluation tests at the field, farm, catchment and national scales. The tools developed within FOOTPRINT will allow stakeholders to make consistent and robust assessments of the risk of contamination to water bodies at a range of scales relevant to management, mitigation and regulation (farm, catchment and national/EU).They will in particular:i) allow pesticide users to assess whether their pesticide practices ensure the protection of local water bodies and,ii) provide site-specific mitigation recommendations.The FOOTPRINT tools are expected to make a direct contribution to the revision of the Directive 91/414/EC, the implementation of the Water Framework Directive and the future Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides.
