Agrochemicals and obesity

Organic Pollution from Agrochemicals

Challenges in agrochemicals design

Design of active ingredients is a multidimensional task. Sufficient target activity in combination with high bioavailability and no (or at least low) toxicological behaviour are prerequisites for promising candidates. In this respect, pharmaceutical and agrochemical companies need to address the same issues. Considering the target activity one can generally conclude that “target is target” rega...

Agrochemicals and the Ghanaian Environment, a Review

Agrochemicals are generally recognized as a significant factor in enhancing the ability to meet Ghana’s need for sufficient, safe and affordable food and fiber, however, increased usage have led to environmental deterioration. In Ghana agriculture and public health sectors remain the major contributors of pollutants into the environment. This is a systematic review of studies done in Ghana to g...

Hazardous agrochemicals, smoking, and farmers' differences in wage-risk tradeoffs

Copyright 2010 by [S.A.Nastis, A.Michailidis]. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. This paper utilizes the theory of compensating differentials for job risks from the labor economics literature to evaluate farmers' differences in wage-risk tradeoffs. In th...

Trade Liberalization, Part-time Farming, and the Use of Agrochemicals∗

This paper investigates the effects of changes in prices and wages, which may be caused by trade liberalization, on the micro behavior of farmers, in particular, on the use of agrochemicals and parttime farming. I demonstrate that a small decrease in the price of an agricultural product decreases the use of agrochemicals if there are no arable land rental transactions. On the other hand, if a c...