Awareness of Health Implications of Agrochemical Use: Effects on Maize Production in Ejura-Sekyedumase Municipality, Ghana

Mabe, Franklin Nantui; Talabi, Kwadwo; Danso-Abbeam, Gideon

doi:10.1155/2017/7960964

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“…We consider a household's experience from any reported cases of chemical intoxication in the community. We also believe that characteristics such as the education level of the household's head and the number of children in school could influence how the household perceives the risk of chemical contamination (Mabe et al ., ). Furthermore, we use two alternative variables to determine the directional effect of a household's subjective belief about the risk of food safety.…”

Section: Identification Strategymentioning

confidence: 97%

Food Safety and Adverse Selection in Rural Maize Markets

Kadjo¹,

Ricker‐Gilbert²,

Shively³

et al. 2019

J Agricultural Economics

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Without enforced standards or reliable third‐party verification, food safety threats such as pesticide residues and aflatoxin contamination are generally unobservable or only partially observable to both buyers and sellers, especially of staple foods in rural maize markets in sub‐Saharan Africa. As a result, sellers have more information about food quality than do buyers. Such information asymmetries can impede market development and undermine human health. We study farm household behaviour in the context of imperfect food safety information. We pool observations obtained from 707 food storage containers maintained by 309 farm households in Benin, surveyed following the maize harvests of 2011/2012 and 2013/2014. Our results indicate that when a household perceives a food safety risk associated with application of insecticides, on average it is 33 percentage points less likely to apply insecticides to maize it intends to consume than it is to maize it intends to sell. These individuals are also more likely to sell maize than households without food safety concerns. Results highlight the potential value of improved storage technologies and quality control to promote market transactions and reduce hidden health risks.

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Section: Identification Strategymentioning

confidence: 97%

Food Safety and Adverse Selection in Rural Maize Markets

Kadjo¹,

Ricker‐Gilbert²,

Shively³

et al. 2019

J Agricultural Economics

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“…Literature review shows that 35.6% the respondents had low awareness. Also the socioeconomic variables are labor, age, marital status, household size, and years of education, extension contacts, farm size, and quantity of pesticides were significantly influencing agrochemical use that is pesticides within their farms (Mabe et al, 2017).…”

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Systematic Review on Adverse Effect of Pesticide on Top Ten Importers of African Countries

Tolera¹

2020

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As agricultural production in African countries intensifies; pesticide utilization becomes more widespread and the users are extremely exposed to these pesticides due to lack of pesticide registration scheme; importing highly toxic pesticides; no national plan for pesticide residue; involvement of children and women. The purpose of this systematic review was to review adverse effect of pesticide among top ten imported African countries. In this review, top ten importers African countries were selected based of imported amount for ten years were considered from imported period of 2002 to 2017. The articles were searched from PUBMED, GOOGLE SCHOLAR, and MEDLINE and EMBASE engines. The first leading three continents for pesticides exported were European (48.2%), Asian (33.7%) and North America (12.7%), while the countries were China (14.3%), Germany (11.8%) and United States (11.5%) at the end of 2017. The first three leading importer of African countries were South Africa shared (25.7%), Nigeria (15.8%) and Ghana (14.5%). The three major imported pesticides were Fungicides, herbicides and insecticides. In this review, Ethiopia (827), Kenya (801), and Morocco (542) are the main importers of pesticides until end of 2017. The review also found that farmers were faced with endocrine disruption, carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, teratogenicity, cardiovascular, dermatitis and birth defects. The main associated factor for these problems were low awareness, improper handling of pesticide, and lack of training, and careless disposal of empty pesticides containers. The study concluded that more than one billion US$ of pesticides sales was carried out into ten African countries. The farmers within these country were faced different health problems due to different determinant factors. Proper training and education should be advised for farmers Keywords: Adverse effect, African countries, Import, Pesticide

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“…Thus, if the food currently produced was to be equitably distributed, there would be no person going hungry as there is more food produced than the world population needs. This increased agricultural productivity is largely attributed to the use of agrochemicals, fertilizers, and chemical pesticides [1,[3][4][5][6][7].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The use of fertilizers and pesticides is considered as the panacea for improved crop production [4][5][6]. Despite the high cost of fertilizers and pesticides, farmers are always availed with these inputs as governments in many countries provide subsidies, with a sole purpose of increasing food security.…”

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Risks, Uncertainties, and Ethics of Nanotechnology in Agriculture

Mwaanga¹

2018

New Visions in Plant Science

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The use of agrochemicals, though has increased the agricultural productivity, has severely adversely affected soil and aquatic systems with associated flora and fauna and also the health of the farmers and society consuming the chemically grown food. Therefore, the advent of nano-agrochemicals, such as nanopesticides, nanofertilizers and nanosensors, designed to increase solubility, enhances bioavailability and promotes targeted delivery, and their controlled release will have immense potential benefits that include efficient dosage of fertilizers, improved vector and pest management, reduced chemical pollution and ultimately increased agricultural productivity. However, many questions remain unresolved on the toxicology and safety of these systems to human and ecosystems health. Risk assessment of this technology lags far behind its application. This chapter will therefore discuss the nano-ecotoxicology and risks, uncertainties, and ethical concerns of use of nanotechnology in agriculture. Furthermore, the current levels of public awareness and perception of nanotechnology will be discussed.

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Awareness of Health Implications of Agrochemical Use: Effects on Maize Production in Ejura-Sekyedumase Municipality, Ghana

Cited by 26 publications

References 12 publications

Food Safety and Adverse Selection in Rural Maize Markets

Food Safety and Adverse Selection in Rural Maize Markets

Systematic Review on Adverse Effect of Pesticide on Top Ten Importers of African Countries

Risks, Uncertainties, and Ethics of Nanotechnology in Agriculture

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