CropLife Latin America: 25 years promoting science and innovation in agriculture
Supporting and promoting science-based regulatory frameworks, the adoption of new agricultural technologies and firmly promoting better agricultural practices have been the pillars of the path traveled for 25 years.
Partnerships, key for the advancement of CampoLimpio in Central America
The key factors to advance more dynamically in the recovery of empty pesticide containers and contribute to the development of the circular economy in Latin America are partnerships, the active participation of the agricultural chain and legislation that requires a management plan for these residues. This is the vision of José Perdomo, President of CropLife Latin America, the organization that leads the CampoLimpioSM program in the Latin American region.
Private Standards, sustainability or marketing
Private standards are useful for aspects of sustainability such as the preservation of ecology or improve working conditions. Not surprisingly, agricultural certification schemes have proliferated, both geographically and thematically.
Colombian coffee, a story of good agricultural practices
At least 10 pests, including insects, weeds and diseases, can affect the coffee crop of the South American country. To protect their crops, coffee growers must implement agronomic management strategies with an Integrated Pest Management plan, IPM, which include the use of herbicides, insecticides and fungicides.
Advocacy and promotion of science-based regulatory frameworks continues
2020 Annual Report - During 2020, CropLife Latin America continued to defend and promote science-based regulatory frameworks as one of its strategic priorities, maintaining permanent and proactive dialogue with regulatory authorities and other sectors. Learn about our annual report in this video.
Progress and outlook: SCIENCE-based REGULATIONS
CropLife Latin America and its network of Associations maintain a permanent and proactive dialogue with regulatory authorities, farmers, academia and other sectors to promote and defend regulations with scientific criteria that allow access to agricultural technologies. Explore on this interactive map some of the topics on the regulatory agenda in Latin America for 2021.
Interview: Latin American agchem sector coping with first Covid wave but wary of a second
Jose Perdomo, president, CropLife Latin America, and Javier Fernandez, regulatory affairs adviser, CropLife Latin America, talk to Crop Science reporter, Robert Birkett.
Perspective on the so-called Precautionary Principle in Relation to Crop Protection Products
CropLife Latin America's perspective on the disadvantages of the Precautionary Principle as opposed to Risk Assessment. While the Precautionary Principle promotes decisions based exclusively on the danger of an activity or a technology, Risk Assessment promotes decisions based on scientific analysis, opens the possibility of managing risk and facilitates the entry of new technologies.
Science Guides Us During the Crisis for the New Coronavirus
At the same time that today's technologies have given us access to information that has helped the whole world take notice, relatively soon, about the high risk of the COVID-19 disease, we can find in science the solutions and responses to situations like this that seem to overwhelm our capacity and resilience as the dominant species of the planet.
COVID-19, Vaccines and Treatments through Biotechnology and Science
Amid the global pandemic, we are witnessing the effort, work, and progress of scientists who are tirelessly seeking treatments to curb the impact and spread of Covid-19. Biotechnology, synthetic biology, access to free and open digital information, and believing in science are the key to face the Covid-19.
Best Practice Guidance to Identify Illegal Trade of Pesticides
Publication of Best Practice Guidance to Identify Illegal Trade of Pesticides, by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
In agricultural giant Brazil, a growing hazard: The illegal trade in pesticides
Over the past two decades, the trafficking of a product as seemingly banal as pesticides has quietly grown into one of the world’s most lucrative and least understood criminal enterprises. Adulterated in labs and garages, hustled like narcotics, co-opted by gangs and mafias, counterfeit and contraband pesticides are flooding developed and developing countries alike, with environmental and social consequences that are “far from trivial,” the U.N. Environment Program reported last year.
Without healthy soils, food safety is at risk
The soil is a non-renewable resource; it provides 95% of food. We need to increase agricultural production by at least 50% by 2050 when we will be 9,100 million people. How can we achieve it if we do not protect the soil? Asks José Perdomo, President of CropLife Latin America, who calls farmers to take care of their soil and change cultural practices such as excess tillage, overuse of inputs and burning. International Soil Day 2019.
Editing Plant Genomes
Genome editing in plants is achieved thanks to precision biotechnology and it aims to be a milestone in modern agriculture.
Consumers must overcome the fear of science and technology applied in agriculture
A call to consumers to trust the controls, studies, legislation, science and the agricultural practices that make it possible to bring sufficient and quality food to the tables, was a repeated mention of the speakers at the International Forum - Innovation for the Sustainability of Agriculture, held in Brasilia on June 27
Definition and consequences of illegal trade in pesticides
A global problem arises, which is the illegal trade in pesticides, in which products are presented in the market, which contravene the countries' legislations and guidelines proposed by global organizations that ensure environmental health and safety. All the socioeconomic activity arising from transactions of purchase and sale of goods and products that come from plagiarism, smuggling, or even stolen goods, are considered illegal.
Integrated Pest Management: Focus on production responsibility
Integrated management is a pest control approach that seeks to harmonize efficiency in protection and socio-environmental responsibility measures and in productivity. There are many ways to define it, but all focus on the use of control tools that seek to minimize the losses of a crop through the producers' scientific knowledge, technological support and common sense.
I do read the labels and safety sheets of the pesticides or phytosanitary
Labels and safety sheets of plant protection products inform us about the responsible usage of the product, the care and precautions that we must have when handling, applying, storing or transporting them.
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the application of agrochemicals
To achieve a successful production, a series of factors must be met, ranging from soil preparation, seed quality, agrochemical application, crop management and harvesting.
Beekeepers and farmers ─ communication is key to protect bees
Encouraging dialogue and collaboration between farmers and beekeepers should be a constant task to achieve the protection of bees, the coexistence and mutual benefit of the two activities.
