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Since the 1960s, the world’s population has more than doubled and agricultural production per person has increased by a third. Yet this growth in production has masked enormous hidden costs arising from widespread pesticide use – massive ecological damage and high incidences of farmer poisoning and chronic health effects.

Whereas once the risks involved with pesticide use were judged to be outweighed by the potential benefits, increasingly the external costs of pesticides, to environments and human health, are being seen as unacceptable.

The Pesticide Detox explores the potential for the phasing-out of hazardous pesticides and the phasing-in of cost effective alternatives already available on the market. This book makes clear that it is time to start the pesticide detox and to move towards a more sustainable agriculture.

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Contents

Preface		Jules Pretty
Chapter 1	Pesticide Use and the Environment	Jules Pretty and Rachel Hine
Chapter 2	The Health Impacts of Pesticides: What do we Know?	Misa Kishi
Chapter 3	Paying the Price: The Full Cost of Pesticides	Jules Pretty and Hermann Waibel
Chapter 4	Corporations and Pesticides	Barbara Dinham
Chapter 5	Agrobiologicals and Alternatives	David Dent
Chapter 6	Farmer Decision Making and Ecological Pest Management	Catrin Meir and Stephanie Williamson
Chapter 7	The Human and Social Dimensions of Pest Management for Agricultural Sustainability	Niels Röling
Chapter 8	Ecological Basis for Low-Toxicity Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Rice and Vegetables	Kevin Gallagher, Peter Ooi, Tom Mew, Emer Borromeo, Peter Kenmore & Jan-Willem Ketelaar
Chapter 9	Towards Zero-Pesticide Use in Tropical Agroecosytems	Hans Herren, Fritz Schulthess and Markus Knapp
Chapter 10	Transforming Potato Systems in the Andes	Steve Sherwood, Donald Cole, Charles Crissman and Myriam Paredes
Chapter 11	Breaking the Barriers to IPM in Africa: Evidence from Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana and Senegal	Stephanie Williamson
Chapter 12	Towards Safe Cocoa Pest Management in West Africa	Janny Vos and Sam Page
Chapter 13	Agroecological Interventions in the USA	Carol Shennan, Tara Pisani Gareau & J Robert Sirrine
Chapter 14	The Transition to Safe Pest Management in Industrialised Agricultural Systems	Stephanie Williamson, David Buffin
Chapter 15	Policies and Trends	Harry van der Wulp and Jules Pretty