Trends in pesticide use and drivers for safer pest management in four African countries

By S. Williamson, Andrew S. Ball, J. Pretty. 2008

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science, Strategy and Management

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Understanding the agricultural input landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa : recent plot, household, and community-level evidence (2014, positive): “This finding is similar to Williamson, Ball, and Pretty (2008) who observed a very high rate of pesticide use not just on cash crops and vegetables, but also on staple crops.”
Farmers’ Criteria for Pesticide Selection and Use in the Pest Control Process (2018, background): “As mentioned above, the consideration of pesticide prices is a regular practice among farmers in developing countries [33,39].”
Fall armyworm in Africa: a guide for integrated pest management (2018, background): “Capacity for Reducing Pesticide Risk • Personal protective equipment (PPE) may not be compatible with conditions in Africa – and there is evidence that PPE is not available, used, or even marketed (e.g., Williamson et al. 2008; Ajayi and Akinnifesi 2007; Jepson et al. 2014).”
Sustainable intensification in African agriculture (2011, background): “Pest management has centred on integrated approaches that seek to make the best of sound and novel science, to introduce new system components to provide pest management services and to limit the use of synthetic and harmful pesticides where possible (Williamson et al., 2008).”
Cost:benefit analysis of botanical insecticide use in cabbage: Implications for smallholder farmers in developing countries (2014, background): “…rates due to insects resistance, using insecticides meant for industrial crops such as cocoa and cotton for vegetables, using empty pesticides containers for storing drinking water are practised in Ghana and often lead to pesticidal poisoning (Ntow et al., 2006; Williamson et al., 2008).”
Pesticidal plants in Africa: A global vision of new biological control products from local uses (2017, background): “…lower use there is broad agreement that current use is potentially harmful owing to the well documented potential negative impacts on users and consumers (Rother, 2013; Williamson et al. 2008) and on the environment including beneficial insects (de Bon et al. 2014; Stevenson and Belmain, 2016).”