Clarification

Environmental Health Perspectives, Jan, 2002

> In the December 2001 Forum article "Old Pesticides Pose New Problems for Developing World" [EHP 109:A578-A579], the partnership behind the Africa Stockpiles Project was not clearly defined. The Africa Stockpiles Project is an initiative of the World Wildlife Fund and Pesticide Action Network UK that is now being developed by a strategic partnership consisting of African regional organizations (the African Union, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the African Development Bank, and Pesticide Action Network Africa), United Nations agencies (the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Environment Programme, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the Secretariat of the Basel Convention), the World Bank, and the industry association CropLife International.