Improving pesticide surveillance in Ghana

Sub-Saharan AfricaChristina Förg-Wimmer, Rieke Koriath

A Ghanaian-German development cooperation success story Pesticides may only be registered and marketed if they are not harmful to human health, do not contaminate groundwater and have no negative impact on the environment. In Ghana, due to limited logistics and human resources at relevant governmental institutions, there is insufficient testing of the quality of pesticides…