This paper examines pesticide1 markets and regulations in Mali. As a founding member of CILSS2, Mali has committed to establish national regulatory institutions necessary to implement the common pesticide regulations in force throughout the CILSS region. This study explores progress to date in Mali’s country-level implementation of these mutually agreed-upon regional pesticide policies. As part of a seven-country set of comparative case studies, this work collectively aims to explore the reasons for uneven rates of country implementation of regional agricultural input policies.