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Courtney Marie Dowdall and Ryan J. Klotz: Pesticides and global health: Understanding agrochemical dependence and investing in sustainable solutions

Courtney Marie Dowdall and Ryan J. Klotz: Pesticides and global health: Understanding... Agric Hum Values (2017) 34:1045–1046 DOI 10.1007/s10460-017-9786-8 Courtney Marie Dowdall and Ryan J. Klotz: Pesticides and global health: Understanding agrochemical dependence and investing in sustainable solutions Left Coast, 2014, 144pp, ISBN 9781611323054 Daniel Wentz   Accepted: 28 March 2017 / Published online: 3 April 2017 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2017 As our food system has become more globalized, interna- higher rates of poverty, illiteracy, and malnutrition, which tional pressure for abundant, uniform food has increased exacerbate inadequate medical service. These factors, along while the instability of agriculture has remained. These with a large number of “invisible” women and children global shifts bring with them the increased availability of workers, make the danger of pesticide exposure more dif- agrochemical inputs—most notably fertilizers and pesti- ficult to address. Although government programs in Gua- cides. Such inputs offer the potential to improve yields, temala, such as the “Safe Pesticide Use” training program, but also potential health threats to agricultural workers showed moderate success, policies focusing solely on edu- and consumers. Pesticides and Global Health examines the cation were found to be largely inadequate through assess- impacts of these agrochemicals using historical context, ment studies. epidemiological research, and examples from their own Dowdall and Klotz frame these http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

Courtney Marie Dowdall and Ryan J. Klotz: Pesticides and global health: Understanding agrochemical dependence and investing in sustainable solutions

Wentz, Daniel
Agriculture and Human Values , Volume 34 (4) – Apr 3, 2017
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Copyright © 2017 by Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
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Philosophy; Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science; History, general; Evolutionary Biology
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0889-048X
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1572-8366
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10.1007/s10460-017-9786-8
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Agric Hum Values (2017) 34:1045–1046 DOI 10.1007/s10460-017-9786-8 Courtney Marie Dowdall and Ryan J. Klotz: Pesticides and global health: Understanding agrochemical dependence and investing in sustainable solutions Left Coast, 2014, 144pp, ISBN 9781611323054 Daniel Wentz   Accepted: 28 March 2017 / Published online: 3 April 2017 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2017 As our food system has become more globalized, interna- higher rates of poverty, illiteracy, and malnutrition, which tional pressure for abundant, uniform food has increased exacerbate inadequate medical service. These factors, along while the instability of agriculture has remained. These with a large number of “invisible” women and children global shifts bring with them the increased availability of workers, make the danger of pesticide exposure more dif- agrochemical inputs—most notably fertilizers and pesti- ficult to address. Although government programs in Gua- cides. Such inputs offer the potential to improve yields, temala, such as the “Safe Pesticide Use” training program, but also potential health threats to agricultural workers showed moderate success, policies focusing solely on edu- and consumers. Pesticides and Global Health examines the cation were found to be largely inadequate through assess- impacts of these agrochemicals using historical context, ment studies. epidemiological research, and examples from their own Dowdall and Klotz frame these

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