Chemicals

L inventory of problems my POPs to the nin r v B s li the:-risk of contamination of populations by the POPs due the use of pesticides prohibited; -The existence of cases of contamination because of the misuse of m knowledge practices; -M knowledge of POPs, the quality of pesticides s manipulated and the dangers of their use on man and the environment because of low awareness about these th my; People essentially concern are by these problems my are farmers mainly farmers and to a certain extent my s and or (b) producers who massively use pesticides. The ranchers are also concerned because they sometimes use of POPs acaricides for the treatment of ticks. Among the producers, the more s affect by my s li pop noise problems include those revenues low cannot enable d access to formal markets for pesticides. The children of these producers are directly concerned because they represented feel officers carrying these dangerous products under conditions inadapt es. Women as they use packaging for various uses: contain water, oils, cows milk they use for most of the cases, these products dangerous to treat the vegetables in vegetable gardens l. To overcome these difficult s pr feels project proposes d develop a coh rent d education program, awareness and communication to eliminate the use of pesticides POPs and do adopt good practices of management of persistent and harmful products. Indeed, DEDRAS-NGO is implementing since January 2007 in the town of Sylvester a project of fight against poverty in the workplace Boo areas productive li s nutrition and community health. The pr this project happens point appointed to take into account the rs essential environmental s alit r success of any initiative to combat poverty in this region of the nin B r.

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