e-learning courses on the Pesticide Registration Toolkit and Highly Hazardous Pesticides
The FAO Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP) and FAO elearning Academy, together with the European Union, the Swedish Chemicals Agency, and the partners of Inter-Organization Programme for the sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC): UNITAR, the World Bank, ILO, WHO, OECD, UNDP, UNIDO and FAO have created the following three elearning courses about the Toolkit:
- Pesticide Registration Toolkit (https://elearning.fao.org/course/view.php?id=936)
- Lesson 1 - Importance of pesticide registration
- Lesson 2 - Pesticide registration toolkit: Structure and contents
- Lesson 3 - Pesticide registration strategies
- Using the Pesticide Registration Toolkit (https://elearning.fao.org/course/view.php?id=1216)
- Lesson 1 - The decision-making process in pesticide registration
- Lesson 2 - Using the Registration tools section for the analysis of the pesticide registration dossier
- Lesson 3 - Exploring the Information sources section
- Highly Hazardous Pesticides (https://elearning.fao.org/course/view.php?id=901)
- Lesson 1: Introduction and identification
- Lesson 2: Assessment and mitigation
- Lesson 3: Alternatives
The courses are certified and available free of charge, as a global public good, through the FAO elearning Academy.
You can do these courses at your own pace and can download them to your PC is your internet connection is not always stable.
The course provide a good introduction to the Toolkit but do not cover all Toolkit modules yet.