Do Bolivian small holder farmers improve and retain knowledge to reduce occupational pesticide poisonings after training on Integrated Pest Management?

From 2004 to 2009 no significant changes were seen among the FFS farmers, while the neighbor farmers still improved significantly, as the variables ‘No use of pesticide WHO class 1’, ‘Knowledge of alternatives to pesticide use’ and ‘Good personal protection when handling pesticides’ became significant (p < 0.05), while the variables ‘Good technical handling’ and Good knowledge of pesticide toxicity’ became borderline significant (p < 0.10) and ‘No self-reported symptoms after spraying past month became non-significant (p > 0.05) changing from being significant at first follow up.In Figure 2 the change is illustrated in a graph showing that the FFS farmers almost doubled their mean KAP-score during their intensive training period from 2002 to 2004 with no further improvement there after while the neighbor farmers showed a steadier but less pronounced improvement through the whole period from 2002 to 2009.

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