Environmental and Economic-Effects of Reducing Pesticide Use in Agriculture (Reprinted from Biosci, Vol 41, Pg 402, 1991) In this article, we review three perspectives used to place an economic value on pesticide use in agriculture and present associated empirical results. One... D Pimentel,L ...
Do Risk Preferences Really Matter? The Case of Pesticide Use in AgriculturePesticidesProduction riskRisk preferencesEven if there exists an extensive literature on the modeling of farmers' behavior under risk, actual measurements of the quantitative impact of risk aversion on input use are rare. In ...
Thus, there is a need to curtail pesticide use and reduce the environmental impacts of pesticides. This study confirms that it should be possible to reduce pesticide use in the US by 50% without any decrease in crop yields or change in 'cosmetic standards'. The estimated increase in food ...
environmental aspects of pelsticide agriculture use in italian The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impacts of agriculture and water policy scenarios on the sustainability of selected irrigated farming system... A Donati,A Giolitti,N Marchettini,... 被引量: 0发表: 0年 Non-Hodgkin's...
Concerns over the effects of pesticide use in agriculture have led to several policy initiatives including the funding of research into pesticide-reduction technologies. The net present value of farm-level net returns were calculated for a sample of ten research projects funded by such a program. ...
A. et al. Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe. Glob. Change Biol. 21, 973–985 (2015). Article Google Scholar Tardy, V. et al. Shifts in microbial diversity through land use intensity as drivers of carbon mineralization in soil. Soil Biol. Biochem. 90, 204–213...
In recent years, the Mekong delta has been strongly developed both for agriculture and aquaculture. However, there is scope for a negative impact of agricu... Pham,K Long - 《University of Stirling》 被引量: 0发表: 2012年 An analysis of insecticide use in rice: Case studies in the Philip...
Pesticides are ubiquitous environmental pollutants negatively affecting ecosystem and human health1,2. About 3 Tg of pesticides are used annually in agriculture to protect crops3. How much of these pesticides remain on land and reach the aquifer or the ocean is uncertain. Monitoring their environme...
Neighbors perceived pesticide use in agriculture to be more harmful to the environment than did farmers and also to reduce the quality of products. Both farmers and neighbors thought that farmers are the predominant users of pesticides. However, reported pesticide users within the home setting were ...
Aktar W, Sengupta D, Chowdhury A (2009) Impact of pesticides use in agriculture: their benefits and hazards. Interdiscip Toxicol 2(1):1–12. https://doi.org/10.2478/v10102-009-0001-7 Article Google Scholar Allabashi R, Arkas M, Hörmann G, Tsiourvas D (2007) Removal of some ...