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The Capital–Labour–State Dynamics of Herbicide Adoption in Rainfed India

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper engages debates around the capital–labour–state dynamics of agrarian transitions to address the oft‐studied but still little‐understood question of why farmers adopt herbicides when they do. Over the last several years, smallholder farmers in India have begun using the herbicide bispyribac sodium at breakneck speeds, particularly in
Carly Nichols, Nidhi Kumari
wiley   +1 more source

Blackgrass (Alopecurus myosuroides Huds.) Multiple Resistance to ACCase- and ALS-Inhibitors and Its Competition with Winter Wheat. [PDF]

Genes (Basel)
Papapanagiotou AP, Vasilakoglou I, Alvanou MV, Giantsis IA, Madesis P, Eleftherohorinos IG.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Dependent Articulation in the Global Pesticide Complex: Argentina's Agrochemical Industry After the Generics Market Revolution

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the late 1990s, the pesticide industry has undergone a ‘generics revolution’ as the centre of production, and trade has shifted to the global South. China and India have become major producers, capturing Latin American markets from Northern multinationals. As a major pesticide user and a key node in global supply chains, Argentina offers
Christian Berndt, Tomás Palmisano, Marion Werner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association between glyphosate exposure and renal injury: evidence from NHANES 2013-2016. [PDF]

World J Emerg Med
Li T, Liu E, Jin M, Lu Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Embedded Pesticide Use: Exploring the Pesticide‐Land Nexus

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the turn of the century, global land grabs, farmland financialization and land‐based food sovereignty movements have returned the land question to the heart of agrarian studies. Meanwhile, abiding interest in pesticides has been reanimated in the face of changes in production, regulation and knowledge of toxicity.
Julie Guthman, Marion Werner
wiley   +1 more source

Detection of S-Metolachlor in Surface Water near Cornfields Using pH-Sensitive <i>Green</i> Molecularly Imprinted Polymers. [PDF]

Molecules
Rapacz-Kinas D, Smolińska-Kempisty K, Urbanowska A, Wolska J.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Remaking State Power Through a Paraquat Ban in Malaysia

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of the state in its ability to enact environmental regulations. Specifically, this study investigates how Malaysian state actors changed, shifted and betrayed various, oftentimes competing interests to ban paraquat, an acutely toxic herbicide.
Caitlyn Sears
wiley   +1 more source

A fungal natural product that inhibits plant cellulose biosynthesis by disrupting cellulose synthase complexes. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Wu Z, Liu L, Han W, Cai X, Xiao P, Sun Z, Yan C, Reid S, Chen Y, Ma Z, Tang Y, Jacobsen SE.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Long Arc of Forest Land Dispossession and Degradation—Firm and State Actions on Sámi Lands in the Wood‐Based Commodity Frontier in Northern Sweden, 1673–1955

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents a new way of obtaining deep explanations of environmental problems. We expose the production strategies, corporate strategies and state actions that have been taken by firms and state agencies to facilitate the geographical expansion of the wood‐based commodity frontier at the expense of reindeer pastoralists among the ...
David Harnesk, Lars Östlund
wiley   +1 more source