Health Effects from Pesticide Use in Costa Rica
Author | : Catharina Wesseling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Pesticides |
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Author | : Catharina Wesseling |
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Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Pesticides |
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Publisher | : Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE |
Total Pages | : 94 |
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Author | : Stefan Agne |
Publisher | : IICA Biblioteca Venezuela |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Coffee industry |
ISBN | : 9783934373013 |
Author | : Lori Ann Thrupp |
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Release | : 1988 |
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Author | : Roxana Salazar Cambronero |
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Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Pesticides |
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Author | : C Kesavachandran |
Publisher | : The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 8179935434 |
Health Effects of Pesticides covers various aspects of the use of pesticides, their behaviour, degradation, and impacts in the agrarian environment. It focuses on pesticide poisoning incidents and farm practices in developing countries. The health impacts of pesticides, including neurological effects, respiratory effects, and dermal effects are examined. Other repercussions caused as a result of pesticides, including reproductive abnormalities and cancer, are comprehensively discussed. Effects of pesticides on general health and agrarian health surveys have been touched upon.
Author | : World Health Organization |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Medical |
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Production and use of pesticides - Toxic effects of pesticides - Short and long-term health effects of pesticides : epidemiological data - Populations at risk - Public health impact - Prevention of pesticide poisoning.
Author | : Ryan E. Galt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2001 |
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Author | : Beth A. Polidoro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Environmental toxicology |
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Among the most important research priorities identified in tropical ecotoxicology is the need for risk assessment models specific to pesticide fate and toxicity in tropical watersheds. A number of different pesticides are applied in the Sixaola watershed, Costa Rica to produce export-quality plantains and bananas. Following an ecological risk assessment framework, the principal exposure pathways, environmental fate, and biological effect of current-use pesticides are integrated to provide an estimate of ecological risk to aquatic resources in the Sixaola watershed. Risk assessment of pesticide use in this region is essential for the identification of conservation or restoration priority areas, as well as for the development of better land management practices that address regional agriculture, conservation, and public health priorities.
Author | : Ryan E. Galt |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-01-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780816536542 |
Pesticides, a short-term aid for farmers, can often be harmful, undermining the long-term health of agriculture, ecosystems, and people. The United States and other industrialized countries import food from Costa Rica and other regions. To safeguard the public health, importers now regulate the level and types of pesticides used in the exporters’ food production, which creates “regulatory risk” for the export farmers. Although farmers respond to export regulations by trying to avoid illegal pesticide residues, the food produced for their domestic market lacks similar regulation, creating a double standard of pesticide use. Food Systems in an Unequal World examines the agrochemical-dependent agriculture of Costa Rica and how its uneven regulation in export versus domestic markets affects Costa Rican vegetable farmers. Examining pesticide-dependent vegetable production within two food systems, the author shows that pesticide use is shaped by three main forces: agrarian capitalism, the governance of food systems throughout the commodity chain, and ecological dynamics driving local food production. Those processes produce unequal outcomes that disadvantage less powerful producers who have more limited choices than larger farmers, who usually have access to better growing environments and thereby can reduce pesticide use and production costs. Despite the rise of alternative food networks, Galt says, persistent problems remain in the conventional food system, including widespread and intensive pesticide use. Facing domestic price squeezes, vegetable farmers in Costa Rica are more likely to supply the national market with produce containing residues of highly toxic pesticides, while using less toxic pesticides on exported vegetables. In seeking solutions, Galt argues for improved governance and research into alternative pest control but emphasizes that the process must be rooted in farmers’ economic well-being.