Despite efforts, UK pesticide use is on the rise. What is needed to really reverse this? Precision farming or a shift to agroecology? Payments for proper IPM? A new independent extension/advisory service? Pesticide taxes? Supermarket interventions? More farmer-led research? It’s up to you to tell us.

This session will look to identify barriers to reducing pesticide use, particularly in the farming sector, and what would be required to overcome these barriers. It will be run as a workshop so all attendees can participate and give their views. The outputs of this session will feed into a project run by Pesticide Action Network, Friends of the Earth, Soil Association and RSPB, which is looking to engage with a wide-ranging group of civil society organisations in order to form a collaboration working together to reduce pesticide-related harms.