Transformation in Pesticide Governance

The Transformation

To simultaneously achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda in areas such as Biodiversity Conservation, Food Production and Consumption, a fundamental transformation in land use and agricultural production seems indispensable.

Different interests, needs, and priorities render this task a real challenge. So the general question arises:  How can we achieve successful sustainable transformation in areas of societal, economic, and environmental trade-offs?

To answer this question the TRAPEGO project focuses on pesticide use in agriculture in Switzerland; a cross-cutting theme where interests related to agricultural production are challenged by human and environmental health concerns.

News

The TRAPEGO webinar series will resume, with specific dates and topics to be published here on the website soon.

Lucca Zachmann was the first doctoral student in the Trapego project to successfully defend his dissertation! Congratulations!

The TRAPEGO webinar series will be continued in spring 2024. The exact dates and topics will be published on this website.

Our research on barriers to evidence use for sustainable pesticide policy and practice is now featured on the European Commission platform for evidence-based policymaking: https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/blog/barriers-evidence-use-sustainability-pesticide-case_en

Agricultural Economics & Policy Blog (German)

RSS Agrarökonomische Kommentare zur Schweizerischen Agrarpolitik
  • Nicht jeder biologisch erzeugte Wein ist mit dem Biolabel gekennzeichnet 09/12/2024
    Lucca Zachmann, Chloe McCallum, Robert Finger* Der biologische Landbau ist weltweit auf dem Vormarsch und hat insbesondere in Europa eine hohe politische Relevanz. Mit verschiedenen Massnahmen werden Anreize für die Umstellung auf biologische Anbaumethoden geschaffen, z.B. durch Direktzahlungen oder Kennzeichnungssysteme/Labels, die den ProduzentInnen Mehrpreise ermöglichen. In einer kürzliche veröffentlichten Studie (Zachmann, McCallum, and Finger 2024b) […]

TRAPEGO project meeting, summer 2022