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, October 7th, 2024 16-17h
The zoom link will be communicated shortly before the webinar on the trapego.ch homepage (here)
Luzi Schneider (Swiss Specialist Centre for Sugar Beet Cultivation): The role of economic and political factors and research in the transformation of sugar beet cultivation in Switzerland
Further webinars will follow on November 4th and December 2nd. Exact topics will be published on this website.
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
- Die Rolle der Anbaudiversifizierung im Umgang mit Dürrerisiken 25/09/2024Jonas Schmitt, Frank Offermann, Andreia F. S. Ribeiro & Robert Finger Dürreereignisse sind eine der Hauptursachen für große Ernteverluste, die sich auf die Ernährungssicherheit und das Einkommen der Landwirte auswirken. Die Diversifizierung der angebauten Ackerkulturen während einer Anbausaison ist eine bekannte Strategie des Risikomanagements auf landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben, um diesen Dürrerisiken zu begegnen. Unklar ist jedoch, […]
TRAPEGO project meeting, summer 2022