Perspective: regulation of pest and disease control strategies and why (many) economists are concerned

Wesseler, Justus

doi:10.1002/ps.5204

Cited by 9 publications

(13 citation statements)

References 40 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In recent years, the proper use of pesticides in the agricultural field has been given more attention and importance thanks to increasing awareness of the impact of these substances on the health and safety of humans, as well as on the eco-system [1][2][3][4]. This has led to the issue of stricter standards and regulations with respect to the introduction of new products into the market and their labelling criteria [5][6][7].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Applying Hierarchical Task Analysis to Depict Human Safety Errors during Pesticide Use in Vineyard Cultivation

2019

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The use of pesticides in agriculture is a significant problem at a global level, not only from an environmental perspective but also from the farmers’ health and safety point of view. In the literature, several studies have discussed the safe behavior and risk perception of farmers. However, human errors when dealing with pesticides and the related work equipment are rarely considered. To reduce this research gap, a study of the human safety errors in pesticide use based on hierarchical task analysis is proposed. In particular, such a bottom-up approach was applied to vineyard cultivation and considered all the activities that operators carry out when using pesticides. The results of this study showed that most of the identified human errors were action errors, i.e., potential failures of the operator in completing the activity successfully. In addition, retrieval and checking errors resulted in being rather common. These outputs shed light on the gap between the information received and the practical need for operators to reduce their failure to perform specific activities. Therefore, while the present study augments current knowledge on the safe use of pesticides, further research is needed to address human errors in agricultural activities, thus extending these results to a larger sample size as well as to other cultivation types.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Applying Hierarchical Task Analysis to Depict Human Safety Errors during Pesticide Use in Vineyard Cultivation

2019

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…There is, however, a shortage of plant protection products of biological origin available for use in the EU . Despite numerous promising results, the initiatives taken by the European Commission to promote the authorization of ‘low‐risk products’, as well as the fact that a number of biological products are currently under review for EU registration and it is not likely that this situation will change significantly any time soon . Also, despite the commercial mass production of natural enemies having a long history, augmentative biological control is applied on a not very significant acreage …”

Section: Plant Protection Product Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Problems of implementing compulsory integrated pest management

Matyjaszczyk

2019

Pest Management Science

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Compulsory integrated pest management poses a number of challenges and issues for debate. Some of are discussed with reference to European Union requirements set out in Annex III of Directive 128/2009. Requirements on the use of plant protection products bring with them problems with dose reduction in the light of a resistance prevention strategy, the lack of threshold levels, the necessity of chemical treatments and the limited availability of effective products of biological origin. Use of preventive measures of pest control faces barriers related to profitability and a lack of knowledge on the part of farmers. Challenges to control the system, as well as the fact that some legally enforced rules are not suitable for all crops, seem also to be an issue.

show abstract

“…The increase in agricultural production has facilitated the spread of diseases, pests, and weeds in crops [5,6]. Thus, for achieving high productivity, pesticides and fertilizers have been adopted as the most efficient manner for the short-term control of undesirable organisms [7,8] and have been used in various steps of the production cycle of cultures, whereas such compounds become subject to environmental contamination [9,10]. However, the use of these compounds in agriculture is not unanimous, although its impacts can be considered positive by some segments of society; for others, its impacts are negative, mainly through the environmental point of view [11,12].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Behavioral Parameters of Planarians (Girardia tigrina) as Fast Screening, Integrative and Cumulative Biomarkers of Environmental Contamination: Preliminary Results

López

Saraiva

Gravato

et al. 2021

Water

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The present study aims to use behavioral responses of the freshwater planarian Girardia tigrina to assess the impact of anthropogenic activities on the aquatic ecosystem of the watershed Araguaia-Tocantins (Tocantins, Brazil). Behavioral responses are integrative and cumulative tools that reflect changes in energy allocation in organisms. Thus, feeding rate and locomotion velocity (pLMV) were determined to assess the effects induced by the laboratory exposure of adult planarians to water samples collected in the region of Tocantins-Araguaia, identifying the sampling points affected by contaminants. Furthermore, physicochemical and microbiological parameters, as well as the presence of inorganic compounds (dissolved aluminum, total barium, total chloride, dissolved iron, total fluoride, total manganese, nitrates, nitric nitrogen, total sulfate, total zinc) and surfactants, were determined on each specific sampling point. The behavioral biomarkers (feeding rate and pLMV) of the freshwater planarians were significantly decreased when organisms were exposed to water samples from four municipalities (Formoso do Araguaia, Lagoa da Confusão, Gurupi and Porto Nacional), sites of the Tocantins-Araguaia hydrographic region—TAHR. Both behavioral biomarkers decreased up to ~37–39% compared to organisms in ASTM medium only. Our results showed that these behavioral biomarkers can be used for fast screening monitoring of environmental samples of freshwater ecosystems, since a decrease in feeding rate and locomotor activity was observed in sites impacted by anthropogenic activities. However, the absence of effects observed in some sampling points does not represent the absence of contamination, since several other classes of contaminants were not determined. In these negative results, the absence of deleterious effects on behavioral biomarkers might only be indicative that the potential presence of contaminants on such sites does not significantly affect the performance of planarians. This fast screening approach seems to be useful to determine contaminated sites in freshwater ecosystems for biomonitoring purposes. This knowledge will help to develop biomonitoring programs and to decide appropriate sampling sites and analysis.

show abstract

Perspective: regulation of pest and disease control strategies and why (many) economists are concerned

Cited by 9 publications

References 40 publications

Applying Hierarchical Task Analysis to Depict Human Safety Errors during Pesticide Use in Vineyard Cultivation

Applying Hierarchical Task Analysis to Depict Human Safety Errors during Pesticide Use in Vineyard Cultivation

Problems of implementing compulsory integrated pest management

Behavioral Parameters of Planarians (Girardia tigrina) as Fast Screening, Integrative and Cumulative Biomarkers of Environmental Contamination: Preliminary Results

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About