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Mitigating Measures. Pesticides. EXITOS will have
on
no
pesticide
direct adverse
use.
impact
It will have substantial indirect
however,
beneficial
and
impact,
perhaps Fome indire- ' adverse irpact. The Project
activities
will
that
support
promote better pesticide management practices
mitigate and
any
serve
adverse
to
impact that might result from Project
Training
implementation.
and information delivery support will mostly
and
occur
national through
organizations regional
(e.g., CATIE, Zamorano, INCAP),
funded
and
by
will
natural
mostly
resource
be
management projects in the region
HADS II,
(e.g.,
LUPE).
RENARM,
EXITOS will act as a broker directing
demands
pesticide-related
towards appropriate regional and local reference groups,
the progress
expanding
realized
on
under PROEXAG in developing
IPM
these
networks
networks.
around
Regional
specific crops or themes will
with
be promoted
select country
as appropriate,
or regional organizations assuming lead responsibility
carrying out IPM
in
technical activities. EXITOS will also strengthen
systems in
referral
the region for IPM diagnostic services
governments,
with universities,
research and training organizations, and
entities
technical
of
service
corporations. It will, in addition, facilitate
cQllaboration integration
of regional
and
organizations and bilateral
management
activities
through
in pesticide
training and awareness programs. All cultivars
under
introduced
EXITOS will be introduced through formal government quarantine
programs.
Natural Resource Use Conflicts. EXITOS will have no direct, and little
significant indirect impact on natural resource use conflicts. It will help
mitigate existing natural resource use conflicts, however, by providing
funding to articulate and objectively evaluate the larger issue of NTA
promotion and its effect on land use patterns. It will also indirectly reduce
the need to convert additional lands by providing the Technical Assistance
required to improve NTA crop management practices that contribute to
intensification as opposed to extensification of agriculture. It may,
moreover, directly help mitigate other specific natural resource use
conflicts--both NTA and NTI related--on a case-by-case basis as appropriate
through provision of short-term TA and/or training.
Pollution and Waste Disposal. EXITOS will have no direct, and little if
any significant indirect impact on industrial pollution or waste disposal
problems. It will nonetheless indirectly help mitigate pollution/waste
disposal problems by providing the TA required to help NTI operators improve
their operations and become more responsible--and therefore profitable-­
businessmen. It may, moreover, directly help mitigate specific
pollution/waste disposal problems on a case-by-case basis as appropriate
through prol'sion of short-term TA and/or training.
2.0 PURPOS
The purpose of A.I.D. Invironmental Assessments Is "to
host
provide
country
Agency
decision
and
makers with a full discussion of
environmental
the significant
effects of a proposed action. The IA includes
which would
alternatives
avoid or minimise adverse effects or enhance the quality of the