The benefits of pesticides to mankind and the environment

By J. Cooper, H. Dobson. 2007

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Insect Science, Plant Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. M. Khan
2. Thomas Guillemaud
3. C. Damalas
4. D. Bourguet

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1. C. Damalas
2. Thomas Guillemaud
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Citations in the corpus

• Heavy Metals and Pesticides Toxicity in Agricultural Soil and Plants: Ecological Risks and Human Health Implications (2021, background): “Scientists have defined pesticides as synthesized chemical compounds used in many areas, including in the agricultural sector, to control pests [13].”
• Plant Secondary Metabolite Biosynthesis and Transcriptional Regulation in Response to Biotic and Abiotic Stress Conditions (2021, background): “An important question therefore arises: can pesticides induce chemical changes in plants that affect human health [160]? Studies suggest that this might be possible at the time of application but is less critical at the time of consumption [160].”
• Pesticide-Induced Stress in Arthropod Pests for Optimized Integrated Pest Management Programs. (2016, background): “Despite their recognized importance for food production as well as human and animal health (31, 104, 120), the layperson’s perception of pesticides is largely negative, especially when synthetic compounds are considered (11, 15, 18, 29).”
• Effect of Endocrine Disruptor Pesticides: A Review (2011, background): “Moreover, they insure increased food production, a safe and secure food supply, and other secondary benefits [3].”
• Pesticide Exposure, Safety Issues, and Risk Assessment Indicators (2011, background): “There are also many other kinds of benefits that may be attributed to pesticides, but these benefits often go unnoticed by the general public [2,5].”
• Agriculture Development, Pesticide Application and Its Impact on the Environment (2021, background): “There is also a secondary benefit from pesticide usage, which is less immediate and less intuitively obvious, with long-term consequences, including farm and agribusiness revenues, nutrition and health improvement, food safety, quality of life improvement, a wider range of viable crops, life expecta”
• Pesticide use and risk perceptions among farmers in the cotton belt of Punjab, Pakistan (2015, background): “Numerous major and minor benefits from pesticide use have been outlined, with the most pronounced being the economic benefits derived from the protection of commodity yield and quality and the reduction of other costly inputs such as labor and fuel (Cooper and Dobson, 2007; Damalas, 2009).”
• The Hidden and External Costs of Pesticide Use (2016, background): “Pesticide use has been shown to have a marked positive effect on agriculture (Cooper and Dobson 2007 ; Gianessi 2009 ; Gianessi and Reigner 2005 , 2007 ) and human health (Cooper and Dobson 2007 ).”