Journal
CROP PROTECTION
Volume 141, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2020.105428
Keywords
Crop protection; Policy; Pesticide use reduction; Spain; Statistics; Sustainability
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- Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain, project 'The social construction of food quality: mediations between production and consumption in a knowledge based economy' [Q2432001B]
- Spanish Plan of Innovation, Technical and Scientific Research 2017-2020 -Ramon Cajal [RYC2018-024025-I]
- Cabildo de Tenerife, under the TFinnova Programme - MEDI fund
- Cabildo de Tenerife, under the TFinnova Programme - FDCAN fund
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Spain is one of the greatest global consumers of conventional pesticides, but its pesticide policy has significant shortcomings and inconsistencies, such as lacking clear objectives and strategies for reducing the use of conventional pesticides and informing citizens about pesticide residues.
This paper explores Spanish pesticide policy with a focus on developments during the last decade. Spain is one of the greatest global consumers of conventional pesticides and leader in various related rankings among European Union countries. However, reviews of pesticide policies examining the key plans, facts, strategies and stakeholders are largely lacking. In providing an overview of Spanish responses to the European Directive 2009/128/EC on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides, this article contributes to filling this research gap. Spanish National Action Plans lack measurable quantitative objectives for reduction in the use of conventional pesticides and further implementation of Integrated Pest Management. Spanish National Action Plans also lack strategies for informing citizens about pesticide residues, and efficient means of keeping up to date with the authorisation of new active substances and delivery of pesticide use and sales data, in time and form. Moreover, there are no clear trends in conventional pesticide use reduction and sales, despite a significant reduction in the use of the more toxic active substances. Overall, this paper reveals various important shortcomings and incongruences in Spanish pesticide policy, which deserve further scholarly exploration and should be a matter of concern for public bodies.
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