Measuring pesticide ecological and health risks in West African agriculture to establish an enabling environment for sustainable intensification

C. Jepson, P.; Guzy, Michael; L. Blaustein, Kathy; Sow, M.; Adama Sarr, Mamadou; Mineau, Pierre; E. Kegley, Susan

doi:10.1098/rstb.2013.0491

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Measuring pesticide ecological and health risks in West African agriculture to establish an enabling environment for sustainable intensification

Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences • Feb 17, 2014

Authors:

P. C. Jepson

Michael Guzy

Kathy L. Blaustein

Abstract

We outline an approach to pesticide risk assessment that is based upon surveys of pesticide use throughout West Africa. We have developed and used new risk assessment models to provide, to our knowledge, the first detailed, geographically extensive, scientifically based analysis of pesticide risks f...

Subject

Agriculture

Context (archaeology)

Environmental planning

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