Cultivating Crisis : : The Human Cost of Pesticides in Latin America / / Douglas L. Murray.
Since World War II, the Green Revolution has boosted agricultural production in Latin America and other parts of the Third World, with money, technical assistance, and other forms of aid from United States development agencies. But the Green Revolution came at a high price—massive pesticide dependen...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tabels
- Preface
- 1 Development's Unkept Promise
- 2 Pesticides and the Central American Cotton Boom
- 3 Cotton and the Pesticide Crisis
- 4 Addressing the Crisis through Nontraditional
- 5 Pesticides and Social Inequity in Nontraditional Agriculture
- 6 The Search for Solutions: Integrated Pest Management
- 7 The Search for Solutions: The safe-Use Paradigm
- 8 Pesticides, Development, and Crisis: Toward a resolution
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index