This chapter outlines the rationale and importance of policy analysis for designing rational decision making in crop protection. The first section describes the most important trends in crop protection that shape the current policy agenda and exert pressure to change the pro-pesticide bias. The second section focuses on efforts in achieving stakeholder concensus on policy change.
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