Trends in pesticide use and drivers for safer pest management in four African countries

Williamson, Stephanie; Ball, Andrew S.; Pretty, Jules

doi:10.1016/j.cropro.2008.04.006

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“…Other parts of sub-Saharan Africa have similar problems with the widespread use of highly toxic and illegal pesticides (Ecobichon 2001;Williamson et al 2008;Handford et al 2015). Like in many African countries, also in Ethiopia, different studies conducted on knowledge, attitude and perception (KAP) among smallholders (Mekonnen and Agonafir 2002;Amera and Abate 2008;Mengistie et al 2014;Damte and Tabor 2015) have shown that farmers have low knowledge, attitude and perception on pesticides use.…”

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“…Rethinking this approach is needed to identify alternatives, for instance in terms of good agricultural practices, integrated pest management (IPM) or organic farming. Currently, IPM seems the most promising strategy for widespread application by vegetable farmers, as it can change farmers' perceptions, attitudes and practices in using pesticides without requiring large investments or radical transformations in management systems (PAN UK 2007;Williamson et al 2008). There is no policy promoting organic agriculture in Ethiopia although there are some local initiatives to produce and export organic crops, for instance coffee (PAN UK 2007).…”

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“…These latter ones are manufactured domestically or formulated from imported active ingredients. Besides, there is repeated use of the same class of pesticides (mainly class II) to control pests and diseases, while repeated use may cause pest resistance (UNU 2003;Williamson et al 2008).…”

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“…Pesticide use patterns of smallholder farmers are more complicated compared with large-scale farmers, as they are usually resource-poor as well as risk-averse. In addition, due to high exposure and unsafe application techniques, smallholders experience more pesticides health risks than larger-scale farmers (Ngowi et al 2007;Williamson et al 2008).…”

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Pesticide use practices among smallholder vegetable farmers in Ethiopian Central Rift Valley

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Pesticide use is a common practice to control pests and diseases in vegetable cultivation, but often at the expense of the environment and human health. This article studies pesticide-buying and use practices among smallholder vegetable farmers in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia, using a practice perspective. Through in-depth interviews and observations, data were collected from a sample of farmers, suppliers and key governmental actors. The results reveal that farmers apply pesticides in violation of the recommendations: they use unsafe storage facilities, ignore risks and safety instructions, do not use protective devices when applying pesticides, and dispose containers unsafely. By applying a social practice approach, we show that these pesticide-handling practices are steered by the combination of the system of provision, the farmers' lifestyle and the everyday context in which pesticides are being bought and used. Bringing in new actors such as environmental authorities, suppliers, NGOs and private actors, as well as social and technological innovations, may contribute to changes in the actual performance of these pesticides buying and using practices. This article argues that a practice approach represents a promising perspective to analyse pesticide handling and use and to systematically identify ways to change these.

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“…The importance to carry out the avoidance behavior test in the tropics comes also from the fact that most of developing countries are high users of agrochemicals i.e. Brazil (Chrisman et al, 2009), Colombia (García-Santos et al, 2011, South-African countries (Williamson et al, 2008), India (Abhilash and Singh, 2009) or China (Wei et al, 2007). Field studies on soil toxicity are much harder to be found in developing countries except very few (Forster et al, 2006;).…”

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Effect of Triazophos and Pendimethalin on Avoidance Behavior of Eisenia fetida in Natural Soil of Kota (Rajasthan)

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Pesticides Removal by Filtration over Cactus Pear Leaves: A Cheap and Natural Method for Small‐Scale Water Purification in Semi‐Arid Regions

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This study aims to examine the efficiency of Opuntia ficus‐indica for removing organochlorine pesticides from surface waters. Adsorption properties such as size, dose, and time of O. ficus‐indica for aldrin, dieldrin, and dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) were studied through stirring and column methods. Because of their high affinity and swelling characteristics, dried O. ficus‐indica was studied in stirring while fresh unpeeled O. ficus‐indica was applied in both stirring and column experiments and proved to be well‐suited to column application. Before removing pesticides, the column was flashed with distilled water eliminate the turbidity and smell from fresh unpeeled cactus. The removal of pesticides increased with an increasing adsorbent dose and decreased with adsorbent particle sizes. The optimum adsorbent dose is 10 g for dried and 15 g for fresh unpeeled O. ficus‐indica. The experimental results show that O. ficus‐indica possesses strong adsorption ability for aldrin, dieldrin, and DDT, and the adsorption isotherm data obeyed the Freundlich model. The results of our small‐scale experiments suggest a strong potential to develop local small‐scale water treatment units that can be used at the level of individual households or local communities, using a widely available adsorbent.

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Trends in pesticide use and drivers for safer pest management in four African countries

Cited by 285 publications

References 29 publications

Pesticide use practices among smallholder vegetable farmers in Ethiopian Central Rift Valley

Pesticide use practices among smallholder vegetable farmers in Ethiopian Central Rift Valley

Effect of Triazophos and Pendimethalin on Avoidance Behavior of Eisenia fetida in Natural Soil of Kota (Rajasthan)

Pesticides Removal by Filtration over Cactus Pear Leaves: A Cheap and Natural Method for Small‐Scale Water Purification in Semi‐Arid Regions

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