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By linking provincial pesticide usage reports from several Chinese statistical yearbooks (1998-2011) with the Chinese … between people who drink surface water and ground water in regions with different intensities of rice pesticide use before and …% increase in rice pesticide use unfavorably alters a key medical disability index (Activities of Daily Living or ADL) by 1% for …
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This paper examines the long-term health impact of Agent Orange, a toxic military herbicide containing dioxin that was used extensively during the U.S.-Vietnam war in the 1960-70s. Using a nationally representative health survey and an instrumental variable approach that addresses the potential...
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This paper assesses the impact of glyphosate use in agriculture on birth outcomes of human populations in surrounding areas. Glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide in the world. Still, despite ongoing controversy, little is known about its effects on human populations at large. Our...
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farmers where approved. For the last two decades, an important matter of debate has been their impact on pesticide use …
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The present study explores the impacts of pesticide usage and burned biomass on the ecological footprints in OECD … heteroskesedasticity and autocorrelation. In both estimations, the results find that pesticide usage and burned biomass have positive and … significant impacts on the ecological footprints of OECD countries but in particular pesticide usage has stronger effect in …
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Benin. Targeted staggered control (TSC) has been introduced to reduce pesticide use in cotton cropping and generate an … estimated benefit of FCFA48,800 (€74.40) per cotton hectare accruing from increased productivity and reduced pesticide cost …
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