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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | HEALTH COSTS AND EXTERNALITIES OF PESTICIDE USE IN LOCUST AND GRASSHOPPER CONTROL IN THE SAHEL
Autores: | Houndekon,   Victorin A.; De Groote,   Hugo.
Data: | 1998-05-20
Ano: | 1998
Palavras-chave: | Environmental Economics and Policy; Health Economics and Policy.
Resumo: | To evaluate the economic cost of classical chemical control of locusts, externalities of chemical pesticides in the Sahel are estimated through a farmer survey.  The costs of human health, losses in domestic animals and of destroying obsolete pesticides are estimated at $4 per treated ha for chemical control.
Tipo: | Conference Paper or Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

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http://purl.umn.edu/20966

Editor: | AgEcon Search

Relação:

American Agricultural Economics Association&gt;1998 Annual meeting, August 2-5, Salt Lake City, UT

Selected Paper

Formato:

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