In modern agriculture, pesticides feature so prominently in growers’ arsenal to reduce crop damage caused by various … agricultural productivity negatively. In an era of an increasing public awareness on the external effects of pesticides, the EU is … impacts of pesticides are also affecting the farmers’ production environment. A damage abatement specification is used …

active substances, among these more than 20 pesticides formerly used in crop growing. By doing so the progress in WUE has … been put into question. This paper argues that a sudden reduction of pesticides by 50 % would lead to a need for more than … saving technologies including pesticides. Specific research is needed to clarify which countries would be affected most by a …

This article focuses on the demand system of French farmers concerning pesticides uses. We estimate the demand …. Then we compare two indexes that are used in agronomic literature to measure the intensity of pesticides uses. We retain a … and 2006 covering pesticides uses of three crops. We confirm the previous results of the literature that farmers response …