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Funding Program:
Integrated Pest Management Competitive Grants Program |
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Project Title:
Pacific Islands Pesticide Safety Education Center Planning and Training Meeting |
Project Directors (PDs):
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Lead State: MI Lead Organization: National Pesticide Safety Education Center (non-profit corporation in Michigan) |
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Cooperating State(s):
American Samoa, California, Guam, Hawaii, Northern Marianna Islands |
| Undesignated Funding: $30,000 |
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Start Date: Mar-01-2019 End Date: Feb-29-2020 |
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Summary:
Recent IPM Roadmap changes include emphasis on pesticide safety education. Applicator pesticide training supports traditional agriculture, commercial applicators, and the needs of municipal, territorial or national regulatory agencies. Complex pest management/pesticide issues confront applicators, educators, or regulators; pesticide application, safety and instructional technology are constantly changing. Recent changes to the Worker Protection Standard and federal pesticide applicator Certification and Training rules, pesticide product use patterns, increased educational requirements, concerns regarding pollinators, and pesticide misuse/use of unregistered pesticide products have created significant educational needs. This project specially focuses on educators and their Pacific Island stakeholders, an underserved population identified in the RFA. Currently there is a lack of instructors due to retirements, job turnover, lack of funding, and low institutional priority.
The PI is requesting funding to (1) support a pesticide needs assessment, (2) provide initial and future train-the-trainer education for Pacific Islanders, (3) plan to meet Pacific Island Pest Management/Pesticide Safety educator needs, and (4) create a sustainable Pacific Island Pesticide Safety Education Center. Participants in the project will include educators from five land-grant universities, EPA Region IX, the Hawaii and Arizona departments of agriculture, and potential pesticide safety educators from the Pacific Islands. Needs assessments will be conducted as part of the Hawaii Department of Agriculture annual meeting and as an on-line survey to other potential participants. Based on results of the needs assessment, planning committee members will meet virtually to plan: (1) pesticide training objectives/opportunities, (2) on-line training, (3) hands-on training workshop agenda, and (4) program sustainability. Objectives: The primary purpose of funding provided through this proposal is to: (1) Establish a Pacific Islands Collaboration Team (aka IPM Work Group), (2) conduct a needs assessment and (3) develop an ongoing train-the-trainer course specifically for Pacific Islanders. Western Region IPM funding will help justify securing funding from USDA’s Higher Education in Insular Areas program grant. Additional funding sources could, and will, include other agencies who apply pesticides. For example, pesticides are used to (1) maintain military facilities (Department of Defense), (2) manage insect vectors (CDC, Department of Health), (3) control invasive and agricultural pests (Departments of the Interior and USDA) and (4) control forest, structural, and agricultural pests (Department of Agriculture). The second objective of this proposal is to consider the future feasibility of creating a Pacific Islands Pesticide Safety Education Center (PIPSEC). Such a Center could coordinate a wide variety of pesticide programs such as pesticide safety training, pesticide registrations for minor crops, pesticide impact assessment, compliance assistance education for EPA regulatory pesticide programs (e.g., Worker Protection Standard, Applicator Certification and Training [2016]), data management, and environmental and pesticide use surveys. In addition, the Center could serve as a liaison with all of the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands, state lead agencies, EPA Region IX, and other regulatory agencies to meet stakeholder needs. Short, medium, and long-term objectives are detailed in Appendix I. |
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