FOOTWAYS for Environmental consultants

Our innovative methodologie and tools allow users to quantify the levels of pesticides leaving agricultural fields and entering water systems. Our approach is based on a characterisation of the agricultural areas where pesticides are used and the deployment of state-of-the-art pesticide fate models used in the research community. These models have benefited of >20 years of validation and improvement activities and are used extensively in the field of pesticide risk assessment for registration purposes.

FOOTWAYS staff are experts in the prediction of transfers of pesticides in the soil and benefit from an international reputation in this very specialised discipline. We offer our expertise and experience in this field to environmental consultancies as part of collaboration partnerships or responses to open calls.

Our expertise can be useful in the following areas:

• The evaluation of the specific vulnerability of territories to pesticides;
• The delineation of water protection zones;
• The estimation of transfer times;
• The coupling of FOOTWAYS modelling outputs with hydro(geo)logical models;
• The establishment of priority lists of pesticides;
• The design of action plans to reduce pesticide transfer to water resources;
• The optimisation of monitoring programmes;
• The identification of priority zones;
• The prioritisation of actions to put in place to restore water quality.

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