Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators, 2012 Edition

Osteen, Craig; Gottlieb, Jessica; Vasavada, Utpal

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2141408

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“…answered more likely, only 10% answered less likely, and 36% said that it made no difference. Largely due to consumer concerns about pesticide residues, organic food sales in the United States increased from $11 billion to $25 billion from 2004 to 2011, although this only accounted for 3.5% of food sales in 2011 (120).…”

Section: Wwwannualreviewsorg • Fifty Years Since Silent Spring 379mentioning

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Fifty Years Since Silent Spring

Epstein¹

2014

Annu. Rev. Phytopathol.

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Rachel Carson's 1962 Silent Spring exposed both observed and potential environmental and health externalities of the increasing organochlorine and organophosphate insecticide use in the United States post-World War II. Silent Spring was a critical component in a popular movement that resulted in increased regulation and the development of safer pesticides. Most changes in pesticide use in the global north have involved pesticide substitutions, although riskier pesticides remain in use. Many ideas in Silent Spring are compatible with the theory of integrated pest management (IPM), and IPM has been broadly embraced in the United States and internationally as a strategy for achieving least-use and/or least-risk pesticide use in agriculture. IPM is a politically feasible policy that purports to reduce pesticide use and/or risk in agriculture but often does not, except in extreme cases of pesticide overuse that result in negative agricultural/economic consequences for growers.

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Section: Wwwannualreviewsorg • Fifty Years Since Silent Spring 379mentioning

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Fifty Years Since Silent Spring

Epstein¹

2014

Annu. Rev. Phytopathol.

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“…We also asked about record keeping because the current (just expired) Farm Bill includes provisions in the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) for nutrient management plans. Environmental Quality Incentives Program, by far the largest working land conservation program in the United States (Osteen et al 2012), provides incentives for such plans, and there is evidence that-at least in the case of hog production-it is the most common conservation practice adopted in the industry (Key et al 2011). We hypothesized that women would rank each conservation practice as less effective than men would due to lack of knowledge.…”

Section: Id Questionmentioning

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The impact of gender on agricultural conservation knowledge and attitudes in an Iowa watershed

Druschke¹,

Secchi²

2014

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

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Female agricultural land ownership and operatorship are on the rise in Iowa and across the nation, but little research exists that explores agricultural conservation outreach to women and gendered differences in conservation knowledge and attitudes. The authors surveyed all agricultural landowners and operators in the Clear Creek Watershed in eastern Iowa about conservation knowledge and attitudes, as well as preferred sources of information about conservation. Clear Creek is a high-visibility watershed for conservation outreach for several reasons, including its long-standing watershed stakeholder council and its connection to the impaired Iowa River. Analysis of the survey results demonstrated that female respondents had significantly lower levels of knowledge about best management practices and significantly more positive attitudes towards conservation and collaboration than men. Meanwhile, women looked to the same sources for conservation information as male respondents, including neighbors, friends, and conservation agencies like the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Cooperative Extension, and the Farm Service Agency. These gendered results have significant consequences for the future of agricultural conservation practice and policy and for the subsequent health of the nation's soils and waterways. While lacking in knowledge about specific conservation practices, female respondents valued conservation practices, looked to government agencies for information about conservation, and expressed interest in collaborating with government entities for conservation on their land. Agricultural conservation practitioners can use these findings to tailor outreach efforts that will more effectively reach the nation's female landowners and operators. Key words: conservation-farmer attitudes-female landowners-female operatorsgender-watershed managementThe times they are a-changin': female agricultural land ownership and operatorship are on the rise in Iowa, and female agricultural landowners and operators may have different conservation outreach needs than their male counterparts. Shifts in land ownership mean that Iowa women now own a majority of the rented farmland in Iowa and own or co-own just under half of Iowa's overall farmland (Duffy and Smith 2008), while single women own a full fifth of Iowa's farmland (Clayton 2009). Female operatorship is on the rise across the state and nationwide (USDA NASS 2009). Meanwhile, throughout the agricultural Midwest, conservation staff and policymakers are under increasing pressure to understand who conserves soil and water and how best to reach them. However, relatively little research exists that works to understand how female agricultural landowners and operators might differ from their male counterparts when it comes to conservation. This is an issue likely to become more and more important as agricultural production in the United States intensifies to meet increasing global demand for food, feed, fiber, and fuel. To help fill this research gap, in 2010 we dis...

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“…In many instances, sustainability criteria are rather loosely defined. Short descriptions of organic and many other environmentally relevant topics are provided by Osteen et al (2012).…”

Section: Sustainable Organic and Local Foodsmentioning

confidence: 99%