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Pesticide exposure among Bolivian farmers : associations between worker protection and exposure biomarkers

, 2019
The use of pesticides has increased during the past decades, also increasing the risk of exposure to toxic pesticides that can cause detrimental health effects in the future. This is of special concern among farmers in low-to-middle-income countries that
Leander, Karin,, Lindh, CH, Stenius, U, Berglund, M,, Tirado, Noemi, Leander, Karin, Steinus, Ulla,, Dreij, K,, Barrón Cuenca, Jessika, Lindh, Christian H., Vikström, Max, Cuenca, Jessika Barrón, Stenius, Ulla, Lindh, Christian H.,, Berglund, Marika, Cuenca, JB, Dreij, Kristian,, Tirado, Noemi,, Vikström, Max,, Dreij, Kristian, Leander, K,, Steinus, Ulla, Barrón Cuenca, Jessika,, Tirado, N, Berglund, Marika,, Vikstrom, M, Lund University.   +26 more
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Effects of Outsourced Agricultural Extension Services on the Technical Efficiency and Financial Returns of Soybean Farms in Northern Cameroon

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda, Doria A. Medondjeu, Dorothy E. Fon, Stefan Sieber   +3 more
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Uncovering renewable energy policy impact channels on land values, the local farm structure, and farmland heterogeneity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt, Stefan Seifert, Saskia Wolff, Tobia Lakes, Marten Graubner, Axel Werwatz, Silke Hüttel   +6 more
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Dietary exposure to pesticides in poultry: From semen quality to embryonic mortality and tissue accumulation

Poultry Science
The widespread use of pesticides in agriculture increases the risk of chronic dietary exposure in poultry. This study investigated the effects of low-dose exposure to tebuconazole (TEB), imidacloprid (IMI), and glyphosate (GLP), administered individually
Skarlet Napierkowska, Pascal Froment, Artur Kowalczyk, Joanna Rosenberger, Piotr Kaczyński, Bożena Łozowicka, Jan P. Madej, Joelle Dupont, Mariusz Birger, Łukasz Smaga, Wojciech Niżański, Agnieszka Partyka   +11 more
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Pesticide use in periurban areas [PDF]

, 2012
Public concern about pesticide use is very high, although it varies with social, ethical and political factors. In periurban regions, farmers live close to people with other occupations.
Ahmed, Nur
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Pesticides, Preference Heterogeneity and Environmental Taxes [PDF]

, 2007
In this paper we present results from two Choice experiments (CE) designed to take account of the different negative externalities associated with pesticide use in agricultural production. For cereals production the most likely impact of pesticide use is
Iain Fraser, Balcombe, Kelvin, Chalak, A., Balcombe, K., Bailey, A., Kelvin Balcombe, Alastair Bailey, Bailey, Alastair, Fraser, Iain M, Chalak, Ali, Fraser, I., Ali Chalak   +11 more
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Embedding Chemistry and Pharmacy Into Sustainability

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, EarlyView.
Chemistry and pharmacy provide products and processes that are indispensable for our high living standard. To understand their relationship with sustainability is important to allow them to contribute to sustainability in a sustainable manner. An integrated overview of green, circular, and sustainable chemistry and pharmacy is given and how they have t
Klaus Kümmerer
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Atrazine and cancer incidence among pesticide applicators in the agricultural health study (1994-2007). [PDF]

, 2011
Atrazine is a triazine herbicide used widely in the United States. Although it is an animal carcinogen, the mechanism in rodents does not appear to operate in humans.
Beane Freeman LE, Rusiecki JA, Hoar Zahm S, Aaron Blair, J. Sloan, Michael C.R. Alavanja, Koutros S, Andreotti G, Shelia Hoar Zahm, Hoppin, JA, Sloan J, J. Rusiecki, Jay H. Lubin, Blair, A, F. Barone-Adesi, Sloan, J, Zahm, SH, J. Coble, Jane A. Hoppin, Lubin JH, M. Alavanja, S. Koutros, BARONE ADESI, Francesco, Dale P. Sandler, Francesco Barone-Adesi, J. Lubin, Coble JB, Andreotti, G, A. Blair, Jennifer A. Rusiecki, Hoppin JA, Joseph B. Coble, G. Andreotti, Barone-Adesi, F, S. H. Zahm, Jennifer Sloan, Laura E. Beane Freeman, C. Hines, Sandler, DP, Lubin, JH, L. B. Freeman, D. Sandler, Alavanja M.C.R., Coble, JB, Koutros, S, Sandler DP, Rusiecki, JA, Alavanja, MC, Blair A, Hines CJ, Gabriella Andreotti, Freeman, LE, J. Hoppin, Cynthia J. Hines, Hines, CJ, Stella Koutros   +55 more
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Desigualdad medioambiental en la pampa húmeda argentina: metodologías cualitativa y cuantitativa para evaluar la exposición a pesticidas de estudiantes de una escuela rural

L'Ordinaire des Amériques, 2019
After applying qualitative and quantitative methodologies, the present work analyzes some of the ecological inequality conditions in which secondary students of a rural school and their families live in as a consequence of pesticide exposure in Argentina.
Johana Kunin, Fátima Pérez, Mariana Pieroni, Guillermo Hough, Damián Verzeñassi   +4 more
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Health effects and pesticide perception as determinants of pesticide use : evidence from Bangladesh [PDF]

In a recent survey of 820 Boro (winter rice), potato, bean, eggplant, cabbage, sugarcane, and mango farmers in Bangladesh, over 47 percent of farmers were found to be overusing pesticides.
Dasgupta, Susmita, Meisner, Craig, Huq, Mainul   +2 more
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