Report of the Working Party on Pesticide Residues, 1988-90
Author : Great Britain. Working Party on Pesticide Residues
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 16,97 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Food
ISBN :
Author : Great Britain. Working Party on Pesticide Residues
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 16,97 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Food
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789251027325
Author : Steering Group on Chemical Aspects of Food Surveillance
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Food
ISBN :
Author : G A Best
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1845693183
This volume covers the developments in pesticide usage, with particular emphasis on the regulations that safeguard users, consumers and the environment. It provides a comprehensive guide to the use of pesticides and the efforts of manufacturers to develop pesticides that are both effective and environmentally benign. The difficulties and hazards associated with their applications, their environmental effects, particularly in wate and the control of storage, uses and residue levels in non-agricultural habitat and in foodstuffs are also discussed.
Author : Great Britain. Working Party on Pesticide Residues
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 47,25 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Ecology
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Author :
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251030073
Author :
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Food contamination
ISBN : 9789251033418
Author :
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251031964
Author : Gordon R. Conway
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 38,85 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 113406358X
Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are toxic to humans; some fungicides and herbicides cause cancer. Nitrates result in the contamination of drinking water and produce the risk of the blue-baby syndrome in infants and of stomach cancer in adults. Agriculture produces methane, ammonia, nitrous oxide and the products of burning off, all of which add to the world's problems of acid rain, depletion of the ozone layer and global warming. This book, which focuses on the UK, the USA and Third World countries, is the first comprehensive review of agriculture and pollution: it examines the facts and assesses the relative dangers of each pollution problem. It also considers the effects of pollution on agriculture itself crop yields are depressed and livestock damaged by various forms of pollution from all sources. The authors offer solutions to these apparently overwhelming problems, and describe existing technology which would allow us to deal with them. Originally published in 1991
Author : Tracey Clunies-Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 18,69 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 1134063938
In the last forty years, agriculture in the industrialised countries has undergone a revolution. That has dramatically increased yields, but it has also led to extensive rural depopulation; widespread degradation of the environment; contamination of food with agrochemicals and bacteria; more routine maltreatment of farm animals; and the undermining of Third World economies and livelihoods through unfair trading systems. Confronted by mounting evidence of environmental harm and social impacts, mainstream agronomistis and policy-makers have debatedly recognized the need for change. 'Sustainable agricultutre' has become the buzz phrase. But that can mean different things to different people. We have to ask: sustainable agriculture for whom? Whose interests are benefiting? And whose are suffering? At issue is the question of power – of who controls the land and what it produces. Most of the changes currently under discussion will actually strengthen the status quo and the underlying causes of the damage. The result will be greater intensification of farming, environmental destruction and inequality. There are no simple off-the-shelf alternatives to industrial agriculture. There are, however, groups throughout the world, who have contributed to this report and who are working together on a new approach. An agriculture that, in Wendell Berry's words, 'depletes neither soil nor people'. Originally published in 1992