Assessing the intensity of pesticide use in agriculture

Sattler, Claudia; Kächele, Harald; Verch, Gernot

doi:10.1016/j.agee.2006.07.017

Cited by 84 publications

(32 citation statements)

References 13 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Such abrupt changes in the ecosystem can have an effect on the presence and dynamics of insect pests, plant diseases and weed populations and possibly increases in pesticide use. The growing awareness of the risks related to the intensive use of pesticides has led to a more critical attitude by society towards agriculture 4…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the risk of pesticide environmental impact in several Argentinian cropping systems with a fuzzy expert indicator

Arregui

Sánchez

Althaus

et al. 2010

Pest Management Science

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the risk of pesticide environmental impact in several Argentinian cropping systems with a fuzzy expert indicator

Arregui

Sánchez

Althaus

et al. 2010

Pest Management Science

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Pesticide residues from agriculture areas can reach the aquatic environment through direct run off, leaching, careless disposal of empty containers, equipment washings, etc. (Sattler et al, 2007). The growing awareness of the risks related to the intensive use of pesticides has led to a more critical attitude by the society towards agriculture.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Levels of pesticide residues in irrigation effluent from tomato fields in Owiro Estate, Tanzania

Kihampa¹,

Mato²,

Mohamed³

2010

International Journal of Biological and Chemical Sciences

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Pesticide residues lindane, chlorpyrifos and endosulfan sulphate were detected in water from the spring source, within field and return channel of vegetable farms in Ngarenanyuki, Tanzania. Extraction of the pesticide residues were conducted by liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) method. The detection and concentrations of pesticide residues were determined by gas chromatography equipped with electron capture detector (GC-ECD). The percentage detections in return channel and within field were observed to be 67 and 33 respectively whereas no pesticides were detected in the spring source. The average concentrations for lindane, chlorpyrifos and endosulfan sulphate within field and return channel were 3.0, 0.27 and 3.35, and 2.8, 0.06 and 3.13 mg/L, respectively. Absence of residues detection in spring source indicates that the source of pesticides in water from the field and return channel were the applications of pesticides in vegetable farms. This work, thus, seeks to provide information on levels of pesticide residues in water that will assist in a scientific assessment of the impact of pesticides application on public health and ecosystem in Tanzania.

show abstract

“…Important sources of non-GHG pollutants causing acidification are fertilizer use (NH 3 ), manure management (NH 3 ) and tractor fuel combustion (NO x ) (Galbraith et al, 2006). Also, pesticides have the potential to contaminate the air and pose a risk on the environment and human health (Sattler et al, 2007). Thus, sustainable intensification, including increased fertilizer, pesticide and fuel use efficiency and adoption of improved manure management technologies, is important to maintain or improve the air quality.…”

Section: Qualitative Assessment Of Other Environmental Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

GHG emissions and other environmental impacts of indirect land use change mitigation

2016

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The implementation of measures to increase productivity and resource efficiency in food and bioenergy chains as well as to more sustainably manage land use can significantly increase the biofuel production potential while limiting the risk of causing indirect land use change (ILUC). However, the application of these measures may influence the greenhouse gas (GHG) balance and other environmental impacts of agricultural and biofuel production. This study applies a novel, integrated approach to assess the environmental impacts of agricultural and biofuel production for three ILUC mitigation scenarios, representing a low, medium and high miscanthus‐based ethanol production potential, and for three agricultural intensification pathways in terms of sustainability in Lublin province in 2020. Generally, the ILUC mitigation scenarios attain lower net annual emissions compared to a baseline scenario that excludes ILUC mitigation and bioethanol production. However, the reduction potential significantly depends on the intensification pathway considered. For example, in the moderate ILUC mitigation scenario, the net annual GHG emissions in the case study are 2.3 MtCO2‐eq yr−1 (1.8 tCO2‐eq ha−1 yr−1) for conventional intensification and −0.8 MtCO2‐eq yr−1 (−0.6 tCO2‐eq ha−1 yr−1) for sustainable intensification, compared to 3.0 MtCO2‐eq yr−1 (2.3 tCO2‐eq ha−1 yr−1) in the baseline scenario. In addition, the intensification pathway is found to be more influential for the GHG balance than the ILUC mitigation scenario, indicating the importance of how agricultural intensification is implemented in practice. Furthermore, when the net emissions are included in the assessment of GHG emissions from bioenergy, the ILUC mitigation scenarios often abate GHG emissions compared to gasoline. But sustainable intensification is required to attain GHG abatement potentials of 90% or higher. A qualitative assessment of the impacts on biodiversity, water quantity and quality, soil quality and air quality also emphasizes the importance of sustainable intensification.

show abstract

Assessing the intensity of pesticide use in agriculture

Cited by 84 publications

References 13 publications

Assessing the risk of pesticide environmental impact in several Argentinian cropping systems with a fuzzy expert indicator

Assessing the risk of pesticide environmental impact in several Argentinian cropping systems with a fuzzy expert indicator

Levels of pesticide residues in irrigation effluent from tomato fields in Owiro Estate, Tanzania

GHG emissions and other environmental impacts of indirect land use change mitigation

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About