Rethinking the Circle of Poison

Wright, Angus

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“…The problem is that organophosphates do present dangerous health consequences to users in the field and now there is every indication that thousands of agricultural workers in the state of Sinaloa suffer major health damage. 23 Indeed, the problem of agricultural workers health in the borderlands is one that has been totally uninvestigated. We know very little about how much sickness and death have been caused by indiscriminate use of chemicals in the borderlands.…”

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Environmental issues in the United States‐Mexico borderlands

Bath

1986

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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Environmental issues in the United States‐Mexico borderlands

Bath

1986

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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“…The evolution of pesticide resistance by insect, pests and weeds has long been taken as the primary natural reason for pesticide dependence and various new varieties of pesticides have been constantly invented to combat the genetic evolutional process [25,[29][30][31][32][33]. However, overemphasizing the natural and technological processes, although important indeed, may conceal more deep-seated socio-economic and political factors in human society, as pesticide dependence 'is first and foremost a social question; technical fixes or regulatory changes will only acquire significance within the framework of serious social change' ( [34], p. 55). Hence, this review puts pesticides back into the social-political process context they are embedded in to explore the societal reasons of technological dependence.…”

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What Socio-Economic and Political Factors Lead to Global Pesticide Dependence? A Critical Review from a Social Science Perspective

2020

IJERPH

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Dependence on chemical pesticides has become one of the most pressing challenges to global environmental sustainability and public health. Considerable regulatory efforts have been taken to mitigate pesticide dependence, which however has resulted in a prevalent ‘managerial failure’. Massive pesticide application has generated severe genetic resistance from pests, which has in turn further aggravated pesticide dependence and thus induced agrochemical industries to develop new pesticide varieties. This review proposes to look beyond the resistance-dependence nexus and presents a comprehensive discussion about global pesticide dependence in a social science perspective, i.e., revealing the socio-economic and political factors that reinforce pesticide dependence. These factors are classified into five intertwined themes: (1) agricultural regime, (2) social process of pesticide application, (3) economic analysis, (4) politics and governance, and (5) promotional failure of alternatives. It is found that pesticide dependence is not just a technological issue in the sphere of natural sciences, but more a human-made issue, with deep-seated socio-economic and political reasons. Addressing contemporary trap of global pesticide dependence entails a full acknowledgement and comprehension of the complex and intertwined factors. Furthermore, this review identifies two major explanatory approaches underlying the extant social science literature: a structuralist approach that stresses macro-level structures such as institutions, policies and paradigms, and an individualist approach that focuses on the decision-making of farmers at the micro level. This review recognizes the limitations of the two approaches and calls for transcending the duality. This study advocates a policy framework that emphasizes alignment and coordination from multi-dimensions, multi-actors and multi-scales. For future research, collaborations between natural and social scientists, and more integrated and interdisciplinary approaches should be strengthened.

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Pesticides, caution, and experimentation in st. Vincent, Eastern Caribbean

Grossman

1992

Hum Ecol

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Rethinking the Circle of Poison

Cited by 23 publications

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Environmental issues in the United States‐Mexico borderlands

Environmental issues in the United States‐Mexico borderlands

What Socio-Economic and Political Factors Lead to Global Pesticide Dependence? A Critical Review from a Social Science Perspective

Pesticides, caution, and experimentation in st. Vincent, Eastern Caribbean

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