Environmental hazards of pesticides from pineapple crop production in the Río Jiménez watershed (Caribbean Coast, Costa Rica)

Echeverría-Sáenz, Silvia; Mena, Freylan; Pinnock, Margaret; Ruepert, Clemens; Solano, Karla; Cruz, Elba de la; Campos, Bruno; Sánchez-Ávila, Juan; Lacorte, Sı́lvia; Barata, Carlos

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.07.092

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“…In addition, the expansion of crops in close proximity to forests may have negative ecological impacts in this critical corridor region, surrounding remnant forest patches with a harsh matrix that may lower forest connectivity and ecosystem health over the long-term [60][61][62][63]. Pineapple and banana production in Costa Rica depends on extremely high applications of fertilizer and toxic pesticides [47,64]. In Costa Rica these agro-chemicals have degraded water quality and disrupted downstream ecosystems [47,63], and contaminated montane forests with pesticides [65].…”

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“…Pineapple and banana production in Costa Rica depends on extremely high applications of fertilizer and toxic pesticides [47,64]. In Costa Rica these agro-chemicals have degraded water quality and disrupted downstream ecosystems [47,63], and contaminated montane forests with pesticides [65].…”

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“…The 1996 Forest Law lowered deforestation rates shortly after its passing [37,45], but its long-term effectiveness has not been evaluated, especially in light of the recent boom in pineapple production (figure 1). In the last decade, production of pineapples in Costa Rica has soared due to cheap labor, improved varieties, and extensive pesticide and fertilizer use [46,47]; this reflects an 88% increase in global pineapple area from 1986 to 2010 ( [17]; figure 1).…”

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Land cover dynamics following a deforestation ban in northern Costa Rica

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DeFries

Sesnie

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Environ. Res. Lett.

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Forest protection policies potentially reduce deforestation and re-direct agricultural expansion to already-cleared areas. Using satellite imagery, we assessed whether deforestation for conversion to pasture and cropland decreased in the lowlands of northern Costa Rica following the 1996 ban on forest clearing, despite a tripling of area under pineapple cultivation in the last decade. We observed that following the ban, mature forest loss decreased from 2.2% to 1.2% per year, and the proportion of pineapple and other export-oriented cropland derived from mature forest declined from 16.4% to 1.9%. The post-ban expansion of pineapples and other crops largely replaced pasture, exotic and native tree plantations, and secondary forests. Overall, there was a small net gain in forest cover due to a shifting mosaic of regrowth and clearing in pastures, but cropland expansion decreased reforestation rates. We conclude that forest protection efforts in northern Costa Rica have likely slowed mature forest loss and succeeded in re-directing expansion of cropland to areas outside mature forest. Our results suggest that deforestation bans may protect mature forests better than older forest regrowth and may restrict clearing for large-scale crops more effectively than clearing for pasture.

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Land cover dynamics following a deforestation ban in northern Costa Rica

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Sesnie

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Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…In fact, there are several studies that support the population's appreciation of the severity of contamination of surface water bodies in Costa Rica, both by solid wastes, wastewater and other industrial and agricultural pollutants (Arias-Andrés et al, 2016; Contraloría General de la República, 2013; Echeverría- Sáenz et al, 2012;Echeverría-Sáenz et al, 2016;Fournier et al, 2017).…”

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What do we Think About Water? Public Perception of the Current Situation of Water Resources in Costa Rica: an Indicator of Water Understanding and Management

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Pizarro-Mendez³

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The objective of this research was to determine the level of knowledge and perception of the Costa Rican population about water for human consumption, general concepts, the impact of human activities, the occurrence of extreme events and water management and governance. In 2016, a quantitative-descriptive study of population perception was carried out through a semi-structured survey in which 800 people were consulted, through calls to landlines. It was found that the Costa Ricans: a) perceived that water is a public good and that there is greater availability of water than there is in reality, b) 22 % indicated having supply problems, infrastructure and/or water quality, c) are aware of the contamination of water bodies and willing to pay more for the treatment of wastewater, d) perceived a negative impact due to floods and landslides and, e) 55 % agreed that water for consumption comes from wells and springs, but only 12 % and 36 % had a general notion of what an aquifer and groundwater is, respectively. It is concluded that education programs should include general concepts on groundwater, water management and governance and that the willingness to pay more for wastewater treatment should be taken into consideration by the institutions for the improvement of environmental sanitation.

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“…Most of these compounds irreversibly inhibit cholinesterases, especially acetylcholinesterase, in the central and peripheral nervous systems of organisms to cause respiratory paralysis . Because of the high toxicity and wide application of organophosphorus compounds, increasingly serious public concerns regarding food safety and the environment have been raised . OPPs enter drinking water and beverages through a variety of sources.…”

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Temperature-controlled ultrasound- and vortex-assisted liquid-liquid microextraction combined with GC for the determination of the concentrations of organophosphorus pesticides in beverage samples

Zhao

Yang

et al. 2013

J. Sep. Science

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The aim of this work was to develop temperature-controlled ultrasound- and vortex-assisted liquid-liquid microextraction as a fast and efficient approach for the extraction of nine organophosphorus pesticides in beverage samples followed by GC with flame photometric detection analysis. The combination of ultrasonication and vortexing were used to assist the microextraction, and the use of a dispersion solvent was avoided. Several variables that could potentially affect the extraction efficiency, namely, the type and volume of extraction solvent, sequence, and time of ultrasonication and vortexing, ultrasonication bath temperature and ionic strength were optimized. Under optimum conditions, the calibration graphs were linear over the range of 0.5-200 μg/L. The LOD (S/N = 3) was between 0.01 and 0.05. The optimized method exhibited a good precision level with RSD values between 4.5 and 9.8%. The enrichment factors for the nine organophosphorus pesticides were between 224 and 339. Four beverage samples were successfully analyzed using the proposed method.

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Environmental hazards of pesticides from pineapple crop production in the Río Jiménez watershed (Caribbean Coast, Costa Rica)

Cited by 65 publications

References 28 publications

Land cover dynamics following a deforestation ban in northern Costa Rica

Land cover dynamics following a deforestation ban in northern Costa Rica

What do we Think About Water? Public Perception of the Current Situation of Water Resources in Costa Rica: an Indicator of Water Understanding and Management

Temperature-controlled ultrasound- and vortex-assisted liquid-liquid microextraction combined with GC for the determination of the concentrations of organophosphorus pesticides in beverage samples

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