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
Next webinar on Monday, December 2nd, 2024 16-17h
The zoom link will be communicated shortly before the webinar on the trapego.ch homepage (here)
Benjamin Hofmann (Eawag): Principles of evidence-informed governance for sustainability—best practice examples from pesticide policy and practice
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)
Agrarökonomische Kommentare zur Schweizerischen Agrarpolitik
- Artenvielfalt versus Ertrag: Heterogene Trade-offs in deutschen Grünlandflächen 24/10/2024Dario Schulz, Christian Stetter, Javier Muro, Jonas Spekker, Jan Börner, Anna Cord und Robert Finger* Grünland macht mit 34 % der gesamten landwirtschaftlichen Nutzfläche einen großen Teil der europäischen Agrarlandschaften aus. Sie sind von enormer Bedeutung für zahlreiche wildlebende Pflanzen- und Tierarten. Grünland erbringt mehrere regulierende Ökosystemleistungen. Dazu gehören die Speicherung von Kohlenstoff, die Regulierung […]
TRAPEGO project meeting, summer 2022