Gren, Ing-Marie - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 4 (1994) 3, pp. 279-293
The minimum cost for reducing the farmers' use of pesticides is calculated. The measures include are; (i) a decrease in use of inputs, (ii) an improvement of the insurance system, and (iii) application of an ecotechnology where 5–10 meters along the borders of the fields are left untreated with...