Pesticide Environmental Accounting: A method for assessing the external costs of individual pesticide applications

Leach, Adrian; Mumford, John

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2007.02.019

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“…The method, data handling and philosophy of the PEA is described in detail in Leach and Mumford (2008). Economic data from the original studies (summarised in Pretty et al 2001) were updated for 2009/2010 prices using national treasury data and converted to Euros, where necessary, from an online historical exchange rate database (OANDA 2010).…”

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“…These costs are external to the individual decision maker because they are usually absorbed by society (Baumol and Oates 1988;Pretty et al 1999). Pesticide externalities result in suboptimal economic and policy solutions and failure to recognise and apportion external costs of pesticides can result in inappropriate balances of net costs and benefits arising from pesticide use decisions (Leach and Mumford 2008). The difficulty of calculating external costs of pesticide use for applications of individual pesticides and their varying formulations has meant that it has not been done at a practical level.…”

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“…These include research in the USA (Pimentel et al 1992;Pimentel 2005;Tegtmeier and Duffy 2004), in the UK (Pretty et al 2000) and in the UK, USA and Germany (Pretty et al 2001). However, these several accounting attempts have considered the combined costs of all pesticides for each country and not the costs of individual pesticides at a local scale (Leach and Mumford 2008). Kovach et al (1992) considered the problem in terms of local farm level decisions on pesticide choice and produced a system for calculating the environmental impact of a pesticide in terms of a quotient that summarized the environmental and public health impact of an individual pesticide.…”

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“…The Pesticide Environmental Accounting (PEA) tool provides a monetary estimate of environmental and health impacts per hectare-application of pesticide (Leach and Mumford 2008). The model combines the Environmental Impact Quotient method (rating human health and eco-toxicological behaviour of specific pesticides) with absolute estimates of external pesticide costs in the UK, USA and Germany.…”

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Pesticide environmental accounting: a decision-making tool estimating external costs of pesticides

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Mumford

2011

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In cost-benefit analyses of pesticide use an area-based measure of both costs and benefits is needed for spatial analysis of net benefits. The Pesticide Environmental Accounting (PEA) tool provides a monetary estimate of environmental and health impacts per hectare-application of pesticide (Leach and Mumford 2008). The model combines the Environmental Impact Quotient method (rating human health and eco-toxicological behaviour of specific pesticides) with absolute estimates of external pesticide costs in the UK, USA and Germany. The model converts external costs of a pesticide to other countries using GDP per capita and % GDP from agriculture. For many countries, resources are not available for intensive assessments of external pesticide costs. Economic and policy applications include rationalising pesticide choice, estimating impacts of pesticide reduction policies or calculating benefits from technologies that replace pesticides (sterile insect technique (SIT) or biological pesticides such as Metarhizium). PEA is a logical integration of diverse data and approaches. The assumptions provide transparency and consistency but at the cost of specificity and precision, a reasonable tradeoff for a method that provides both comparative estimates of pesticide impacts and area-based assessments of absolute impacts. The method has been applied to cost-benefit analyses of SIT in fruit flies (two species) and pesticide choice in Desert Locust (DL) campaigns in Africa. An example of external cost calculations for sugar beet herbicides in Europe is presented. There are also planned uses in public health mosquito control.

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“…Shadow price of CO2 emissions CO2 estimates found in literature sources (Table 3A9): (2000) and (2001) were redistributed over the three EIQ model components (derived from Leach and Mumford (2008) and adapted to the Brazilian context). Based values were adjusted to the Brazilian context (Table 3A.10).…”

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Sustainability metrics for agri-food supply chains

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Enhancing sustainability in food production requires knowledge about the economic, environmental and social performance of the various stages of agri-food supply chains. An integrated indicator can provide synthetized information about the extent to which food products are sustainably produced and can guide sustainability improvements. The overall objective of this thesis was to perform integrated assessments of relative sustainability performance of (stages of) agri-food supply chains using integrated indicators. To achieve the overall objective this thesis first The results of this thesis suggests that the three proposed integrated indicators can be used in different socio-economic and environmental contexts to capture the multidimensional nature of relative agri-food supply chain sustainability. Their implementation helps to overcome some of the limitations of the single-issue and composite indicators that are commonly used in sustainability assessments such as incommensurability, subjectivity and comparability. The indicators provide information that can be used by businesses, stakeholders and policy makers to identify opportunities for relative sustainability performance improvements of agrifood supply chains.

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External Costs of Food Production

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Pesticide Environmental Accounting: A method for assessing the external costs of individual pesticide applications

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Pesticide environmental accounting: a decision-making tool estimating external costs of pesticides

Pesticide environmental accounting: a decision-making tool estimating external costs of pesticides

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