ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC COSTS OF THE APPLICATION OF PESTICIDES PRIMARILY IN THE UNITED STATES

By D. Pimentel. 2005

326 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Insect Science, Plant Science

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In Insect Science

1. M. Cock
2. Dennis McLaughlin
3. Wolfgang Kinzelbach
4. R. C. Bueno
5. A. Bueno
6. J. C. Lenteren

In Plant Science

1. Dennis McLaughlin
2. Wolfgang Kinzelbach
3. Thomas Berger
4. M. Cock
5. Pepijn Schreinemachers
6. J. C. Lenteren

Citations in the corpus

• The state of commercial augmentative biological control: plenty of natural enemies, but a frustrating lack of uptake (2012, background): “For commercial augmentative biological control it is similar, but higher if we take indirect costs for chemical control into account which are related to environmental pollution and human health problems (Pimentel et al. 1980; Pimentel 2009 ).”
• Influence of spray characteristics on potential spray drift of field crop sprayers: A literature review (2014, background): “About 3 billion kg of pesticides are applied each year with a purchase price of nearly 40 billion US $/year (Pimentel, 2005).”
• Quantifying pesticide overuse from farmer and societal points of view: An application to Thailand (2013, background): “Economic analysis of the external costs related to pesticide use—for example, for the USA (Pimentel, 2005; Pimentel et al., 1993), the UK (Pretty et al.”
• Climate-smart pest management: building resilience of farms and landscapes to changing pest threats (2019, background): “These can be substantial if it is considered that costs of groundwater contamination by pesticides alone are as high as US$2 billion/year in the USA (Pimentel 2005), or that ‘worldwide, for every 100 agricultural workers, between one and three suffer acute pesticide poisoning, leading to many…”
• Food security and sustainable resource management (2015, background): “The adverse environmental and human health impacts of pesticides are well documented and it is now reasonable to ask whether the crop production increases obtained from extensive pesticide use have been worth the costs [Pimentel, 2005].”
• Effects of integrated pest management, biological control and prophylactic use of insecticides on the management and sustainability of soybean (2011, background): “The use of chemical pesticides and other highly effective crop-protection methods often promotes selection for pest resistance because they impose significant selection pressure on the pest population (Metcalf, 1986; Kogan, 1998; Pimentel, 2005).”