PlantwisePlus webinars 2024 – 2025
These webinars explore key topics on understanding and reducing pesticide use and risk, featuring expert insights and practical approaches to promote safer, more sustainable pest management.
Post-pesticide registration reviews: Experiences, learnings and best practices
May 2025
This webinar explored the importance of post-pesticide registration reviews and shared practical experiences and lessons from experts across Africa. Speakers discussed how post-registration systems help ensure pesticide safety, effectiveness, and environmental protection.
Paving the way for lower risk crop protection: Regulatory pathways for the registration of biopesticides
October 2024
This webinar examined how to improve regulatory pathways for the registration of biopesticides. Experts from the PlantwisePlus programme and partner organizations shared success stories and regional initiatives aimed at reducing regulatory barriers and promoting the use of sustainable pest management solutions.
Knowledge is not enough: Social and behaviour change communication for pesticide risk reduction
October 2024
This webinar explores how social and behaviour change communication (SBCC) can be used to reduce pesticide risks for farmers, consumers, and the environment. It shares lessons from Kenya’s “Diploma Through” campaign and highlighted effective, research-informed approaches to promote safer pesticide use.
Establishing national residue monitoring programme in Kenya, part 2
July 2024
This webinar reviewed results from the recent survey and examined current analytical capacities related to pesticide monitoring. Participants discussed the essential requirements for establishing Kenya’s National Pesticide Monitoring Programme and collaborated on defining the next steps and roadmap for its development and implementation.
Establishing national residue monitoring project in Kenya, part 1
May 2024
This webinar provided an overview of national pesticide residue monitoring programmes, featuring presentations on approaches used in the US and Australia to set the stage for future sessions. It introduced the series, outlining plans for subsequent meetings to explore monitoring frameworks in greater depth and begin developing a national residue monitoring framework.
Caribbean biopesticide webinar series: Developing a biopesticide registration roadmap
May 2024
This webinar focused on sharing regional experiences with biopesticide registration and exploring future directions for strengthening these processes. Presentations from Jamaica and Guyana were followed by a review of survey responses, expert recommendations on a regional registration roadmap, and an introduction to a USDA–ECA project offering potential support.
Caribbean biopesticide webinar series: Advanced biopesticide topics
April 2024
This webinar focused on advanced topics related to biopesticide registration, providing updated survey findings and deeper discussion on key regulatory and technical issues. Participants examined exemption processes, efficacy requirements, data extrapolation across countries, and received an overview of the CABI BioProtection Portal.
Caribbean biopesticide webinar series: Specific data and information requirements for biopesticide categories
March 2024
This webinar focused on specific data and information requirements for different categories of biopesticides. It included an overview of CABI’s work, a discussion of survey responses from country representatives, and examples of regional efforts to harmonize biopesticide regulations, supported by reference materials outlining data requirements.
Caribbean biopesticide webinar series: Introductory concepts on biopesticides
February 2024
This webinar featured presentations from experts who shared insights on pesticide and biopesticide regulation, risk assessment, and safety. The two-hour session brought together diverse expertise from USDA, EPA, and agricultural research to provide a comprehensive discussion on regulatory and scientific perspectives.