Evaluating alternative policies to reduce pesticide groundwater pollution in Dutch arable farming

Skevas, Theodoros

doi:10.1080/09640568.2019.1606618

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“…Concern over increasing groundwater nitrate pollution from agricultural practices has been voiced on a very widespread basis-including England [1], the USA [2], Spain [3] and China [4]. Similar concern has been expressed with regard to pesticide pollution [5][6][7].…”

Section: Diffuse Groundwater Pollution Control 21 Problem Definitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Institutional Issues around Agricultural Land-Use Control for Groundwater Conservation—A Long-Term Perspective

Foster

Chilton

2021

Water

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Key aspects of policy development and implementation for the control of agricultural land use to conserve groundwater are overviewed. This is one of today’s greatest environmental challenges and one on which only limited progress has been made internationally. For this purpose, the objectives of agricultural land-use control in defined areas are either to reduce diffuse pollution of groundwater and/or to regulate excessive abstraction for crop irrigation to sustain groundwater resources. Progress on both of these fronts has been assessed from the published work, and the lessons learnt are summarised for global application.

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Section: Diffuse Groundwater Pollution Control 21 Problem Definitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Institutional Issues around Agricultural Land-Use Control for Groundwater Conservation—A Long-Term Perspective

Foster

Chilton

2021

Water

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“…Many pesticides currently in use have shown negative impacts on plant growth, soil fertility and soil microbial population functioning and diversity, causing potential long-term damage to the sustainability of agricultural systems [2,3]. Moreover, the degradation products of some pesticides exhibit higher mobility than their parent compounds and contaminate groundwater by soil infiltration and surface water by sediments runoff [4][5][6]. CP is extensively used to kill soil insect pests in the agricultural sector [7].…”

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Evaluation of Compost and Biochar to Mitigate Chlorpyrifos Pollution in Soil and Their Effect on Soil Enzyme Dynamics

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The widespread environmental contamination of chlorpyrifos (CP) has raised human health concerns and necessitated cost-effective methods for its remediation. The current study evaluated the degradation behavior of CP in compost and biochar amended and unamended (original and sterilized) soils in an incubation trial. Two levels of CP (100 and 200 mg kg−1), compost and biochar (0.50%) were applied, and soil was collected at different time intervals. At the higher CP level (200 mg kg−1), CP a showed lower degradation rate (ƙ = 0.0102 mg kg−1 d−1) compared with a low CP level (ƙ = 0.0173 mg kg−1 d−1). The half-lives of CP were 40 and 68 days for CP at 100 and 200 mg kg−1 in original soil, respectively, and increased to 94 and 141 days in sterilized soils. CP degradation was accelerated in compost amended soils, while suppressed in biochar amended soils. Lower half lives of 20 and 37 days were observed with compost application at CP 100 and 200 mg kg−1 doses, respectively. The activities of soil enzymes were considerably affected by the CP contamination and significantly recovered in compost and biochar amended soils. In conclusion, the application of organic amendments especially compost is an important strategy for the remediation of CP contaminated soil.

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“…Transaction costs connected to policy implementation have to be weighted against the incentive benefits of volumetric pricing. Altogether, economic, social, and environmental issues have to be carefully considered in order to design suitable water policies [43,44].…”

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The Impact of Environmental Taxes on Agriculture – the Case of Slovakia

Inkábová¹,

Andrejovská²,

Glova³

2021

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Environmental protection is one of Europe's key values. The agricultural sector performance depends on the tax system that affects the profitability. The aim of this paper is to identify and quantify the impact of environmental instruments on the production and financial situation of the Slovak agriculture, which is expressed through the output/input and ROE indicators. The national database of Slovak agriculture provided by Radela company and environmental indicators based on Eurostat and Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) databases, time period 2009-2018 were examined. The used research methods were multiple regression analysis, correlation coefficient and cluster analysis. The paper defined main hypothesis, that production and financial indicators were dependent on the same variables. The results of the analysis confirmed the statistical significance of energy tax. If the percentage of energy tax in agriculture increase by 1% production would decrease by 0.01458 with a probability of 95% and ROE indicator would decrease by 2.375 with a probability of 99%. The results of the analysis confirmed stated hypothesis. The second part of the analysis deals with the hierarchical clustering. The position of Slovak agriculture across EU Member States based on two time periods 2009 and 2018 changed according the settlement of fiscal instruments.

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Evaluating alternative policies to reduce pesticide groundwater pollution in Dutch arable farming

Cited by 26 publications

References 33 publications

Institutional Issues around Agricultural Land-Use Control for Groundwater Conservation—A Long-Term Perspective

Institutional Issues around Agricultural Land-Use Control for Groundwater Conservation—A Long-Term Perspective

Evaluation of Compost and Biochar to Mitigate Chlorpyrifos Pollution in Soil and Their Effect on Soil Enzyme Dynamics

The Impact of Environmental Taxes on Agriculture – the Case of Slovakia

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