Project information
Sustainable Plant Protection Transition: A Global Health Approach
(SPRINT)
- Project Identification
- 862568
- Project Period
- 9/2020 - 8/2025
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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European Union
- Horizon 2020
- Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research (Societal Challenges)
- MU Faculty or unit
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Faculty of Science
- prof. RNDr. Jakub Hofman, Ph.D.
- Paula da Silva Tourinho
- Mgr. Zuzana Hochmanová, Ph.D.
- Evgenia Chaideftou
- Mgr. Halyna Korovecka, Ph.D.
- Cooperating Organization
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Wageningen University
- Responsible person Prof. Violette Geissen
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.
Publications
Total number of publications: 5
2023
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Occurrence of pesticide residues in indoor dust of farmworker households across Europe and Argentina
Science of the Total Environment, year: 2023, volume: 905, edition: December 2023, DOI
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Pesticide residues with hazard classifications relevant to non-target species including humans are omnipresent in the environment and farmer residences
Environment International, year: 2023, volume: 181, edition: November 2023, DOI
2022
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A worldwide review of currently used pesticides' monitoring in agricultural soils
Science of the Total Environment, year: 2022, volume: 812, edition: March 2022, DOI
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Currently Used Pesticides’ Occurrence in Soils: Recent Results and Advances in Soil-Monitoring and Survey Studies
Pesticides in Soils. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, year: 2022, number of pages: 33 s.
2021
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Collection of human and environmental data on pesticide use in Europe and Argentina: Field study protocol for the SPRINT project
Plos one, year: 2021, volume: 16, edition: 11, DOI