The increasing yield of vegetable production in Vietnam has resulted in enhanced use of pesticides, giving serious problems for human health and the environment. From the early 1990s onwards the Vietnamese government started to develop and implement a pesticide policy, which has not been very successful up till now. This proposal aims in organising a workshop that aims to bring together the relevant people to outline a project that is able to quantify the ecological and economic consequences of current pesticide usage and the implications of stricter law enforcement on pesticide imports and labelling of pesticides.
