Regulatory Challenges in West Africa: Instituting Regional Pesticide Regulations during a Period of Rapid Market Growth
2017
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Regulatory Challenges in West Africa: Instituting Regional Pesticide Regulations during a Period of Rapid Market Growth
Keywords
Sahelian countries successfully launched their regional pesticide regulator, the Comité Sahélien des Pesticides (CSP), in the early 1990s.; • Repeated large-scale pest invasions motivated strong interest among the nine Sahelian countries to pool their scarce technical resources to combat pests and monitor pesticide use collectively.; • Despite collective good will and effective early collaboration by phytosanitary technicians, political leaders required two rounds of legislative action, over ten years, to produce a consistent, enforceable umbrella legal framework.; • Two decades later, ECOWAS is trying to introduce a similar harmonized regional pesticide registration system in the humid coastal zone countries.; • Because of their later start, the coastal countries face two difficult new challenges not faced by the Sahelian countries: a) rapidly growing pesticide markets and b) well-established but differing national regulatory structures that now need to be harmonized.; • Lessons from the CILSS experience suggest that the coastal countries will need to focus on four key issues in order to successfully implement regional pesticide regulations:; 1. Securing sufficient financing for national and regional regulators; 2. Technical harmonization, building on existing HIP protocols; 3. Legal harmonization, by enlisting a trained legal draftsmen to assist the technicians; 4. Launching a sub-regional technical secretariat for the coastal countries.
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Nov 09 2017
Publication Type
Working or Discussion Paper
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Record Identifier
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/270648
Language
English
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