Last week, our colleague Stella, Director of Regulatory Affairs at CL AME, participated in a workshop organized by aak-GROW/CropLife Kenya themed: Enabling Compliance to Market Requirements Amid Unfavorable Policy Changes. The workshop was an interactive session with team leads of relevant regulatory compliance agencies and business membership associations to deliberate on mechanisms to enhance farmer compliance to market requirements: local, regional, and global.

Stella provided an overview of global policy changes – notably in relation to the EU Green Deal and emerging policy issues such as Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) impact on food security and market access. The workshop recommended that all stakeholders represented collaborate in implementing measures that bring about farmer behavior change as one of the steps towards ensuring compliance.