From the Farmers’ Perspective: Pesticide Use and Pest Control

作者: Seyyed Mahmoud Hashemi , Rajinder Peshin , Giuseppe Feola

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7796-5_17

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摘要: Many studies have shown that farmers in developing countries often overuse pesticides and do not adopt safety practices. Policies interventions to promote a safer use of are based on limited understanding the farmers’ own perspective pesticide use. This results ineffective policies persistence significant pesticide-related health environmental problems, especially countries. chapter explores potentials limitations different approaches study agriculture from perspective. In contrast reductionist mono-disciplinary adopted, this calls for integrative methodological provide realistic thorough illustrates added value such an approach with three case Iran, India, Colombia.

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