How The Stockholm Convention Triggered Positive Change In Senegal
Title
How The Stockholm Convention Triggered Positive Change In Senegal
Published
August 30, 2012
Document type
Publication
Case study
Description
In most African developing countries, people live in hard socioeconomical conditions which don’t give them any choice or decisionmaking power when it comes to protecting their environment. These people, who are essentially farmers, use a lot of chemicals to increase their agricultural production or to combat endemic vector diseases. Some of these chemicals are Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), which are regulated by the Stockholm Convention.