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"As pesticide traders are important sources of information about the health impacts of pesticides, a crucial … understanding of their perception is necessary to guide further pesticide information dissemination efforts through this channel. To … this end, a 2003 survey of 110 Bangladeshi pesticide traders was conducted with questions on the pesticides in stock …
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pesticide use or handling, and over 87 percent openly admitting to using little or no protective measures while applying … pesticides, overuse is potentially a threatening problem to farmer health as well as the environment. To model pesticide overuse …, the authors used a 3-equation, trivariate probit framework, with health effects and misperception of pesticide risk as …
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"In this paper, the authors have assessed the incidence and determinants of pesticide poisoning among rice farmers in … negative externalities, and suggest that future research on pesticide-related damage should include information on local water …
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An efficient and affordable access to jobs, education and services is considered a fundamental element for development. However, the mobility conditions in the cities have deteriorated because of the increasing motorization and urbanization. The number of new cars that enter the cities every...
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The Water and Sanitation Program's (WSP's) Global Scaling up Sanitation Project combines the approaches of Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), behavior change communications, and social marketing to generate sanitation demand and strengthen the supply of sanitation products and services at...
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After a period of stagnation, the story of hydropower infrastructure is changing. Emerging global dynamics are recasting the role and value of hydropower in development, recognizing its potential contribution to a complex web of energy security, water security and regional development and...
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