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Sustainable Plant Protection Transition: A Global Health Approach (SPRINT)

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Project Identification
862568
Project Period
9/2020 - 8/2025
Investor / Pogramme / Project type
European Union
  • Horizon 2020
  • Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research (Societal Challenges)
MU Faculty or unit
Faculty of Science
Cooperating Organization
University of Ljubljana
University of Aveiro
University of Antwerpen
Aarhus Universitet
University College Cork
Universität Bern
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Universiteit Utrecht
Wageningen University
  • Responsible person Prof. Violette Geissen
Stichting Wageningen Research
Ecologic Institute
Technical University of Denmark
Université de Bordeaux
University of Hohenheim
Stichting Radboud universitair medisch centrum

SPRINT will develop, test, validate and deliver a holistic global health approach to integrated assessments of the impacts of plant protection products (PPP) on ecosystem, plant, animal and human (EPAH) health, using three main attributes for state of health: resilience, reproduction/ productivity and manifestation of diseases. SPRINT takes the main crops and cropping systems in different European landscapes into account with the aim being to develop transition pathways for reduced reliance on PPP use, and improve farmer and citizen awareness. The goal is integrated risk assessment at the local, regional, national and European level, focusing on different PPP use patterns in contrasting farming systems (conventional, integrated, organic). SPRINT consists of 9 interlinked work packages. The distribution and the impacts of PPPs on EPAH health will be evaluated at 11 case study sites (CSS), each with contrasting farming systems. Ten CSS cover Europe and leading European crops, and one additional study is in Argentina on soy production for feed. PPP environmental fluxes, direct (food/feed ingestion) and indirect (air/dust inhalation and dermal uptake) animal and human exposure routes will be measured and used to improve current exposure, fate and toxicokinetic models (e.g. EFSA-FOCUS, BROWSE, BREAM). Improved (eco)toxicological assays will be performed based on both the findings from the CCS and existing databases. Such assays will cover direct and indirect exposure to multiple PPP residues, realistic ranges of PPP concentrations, multi-species scenarios, and short- and long-term exposures. Modelling of sustainability and cost-benefit at micro- and macro-economic scale will be conducted to derive recommendations for sustainable transition pathways and a research agenda on PPPs. Stakeholders will be closely involved at all levels in the project, from the inventory phase at CSS to the cost-benefit analysis through an independently chaired project advisory group.

Sustainable Development Goals

Masaryk University is committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to improve the conditions and quality of life on our planet by 2030.

Sustainable Development Goal No. 2 – Zero hunger Sustainable Development Goal No. 3 – Good health and well-being Sustainable Development Goal No. 6 – Clean water and sanitation Sustainable Development Goal No. 12 – Responsible consumption and production Sustainable Development Goal No. 13 – Climate action Sustainable Development Goal No. 14 – Life below water Sustainable Development Goal No. 15 – Life on land Sustainable Development Goal No. 17 – Partnerships for the goals

Publications

Total number of publications: 10

2024

2023

2022

2021

  • Collection of human and environmental data on pesticide use in Europe and Argentina: Field study protocol for the SPRINT project

    SILVA Vera ALAOUI Abdallah SCHLUNSSEN Vivi VESTED Anne GRAUMANS Martien VAN DAEL Maurice TREVISAN Marco SUCIU Nicoleta MOL Hans BEEKMANN Karsten FIGUEIREDO Daniel HARKES Paula HOFMAN Jakub KANDELER Ellen ABRANTES Nelson CAMPOS Isabel MARTINEZ Maria Angeles PEREIRA Joana Luisa GOOSSENS Dirk GANDRASS Juergen DEBLER Freya LWANGA Esperanza Huerta JONKER Marlot VAN LANGEVELDE Frank SORENSEN Martin T. WELLS Jerry M. BOEKHORST Jos HUSS Anke MANDRIOLI Daniele SGARGI Daria NATHANAIL Paul NATHANAIL Judith TAMM Lucius FANTKE Peter MARK Jennifer GROVERMANN Christian FRELIH-LARSEN Ana HERB Irina CHIVERS Charlotte-Anne MILLS Jane ALCON Francisco CONTRERAS Josefina BALDI Isabelle PASKOVIC Igor MATJAZ Glavan NORGAARD Trine APARICIO Virginia RITSEMA Coen J. GEISSEN Violette SCHEEPERS Paul T. J.

    Article in Periodical

    Plos one, year: 2021, volume: 16, edition: 11, DOI

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