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1 Padmajani, M. T.; Aheeyar, M. M. M.; Bandara, M. A. C. S. 2014. Assessment of pesticide usage in up-country vegetable farming in Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI). 56p. (HARTI Research Report 164)
Pesticide application ; Vegetable growing ; Efficiency ; Highlands ; Environmental effects ; Public health ; Legislation ; Training ; Farmers ; Socioeconomic environment / Sri Lanka / Badulla / Nuwara Eliya
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 632.9 G744 PAD Record No: H046595)
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2 Mateo-Sagasta, Javier; Zadeh, S. M.; Turral, H. (Eds.) 2018. More people, more food, worse water?: a global review of water pollution from agriculture. Rome, Italy: FAO; Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). 224p.
Water pollution ; Agricultural waste management ; Agricultural wastewater ; Food consumption ; Population growth ; Surface water ; Groundwater ; Risk management ; Pollutants ; Organic matter ; Pathogens ; Food wastes ; Water quality ; Models ; Farming systems ; Intensification ; Fertilizer application ; Pesticide application ; Aquaculture ; Livestock production ; Nutrient management ; Nitrogen ; Phosphorus ; Salts ; Soil salinization ; Irrigation water ; Freshwater ; Public health ; Environmental health ; Water policy ; Sediment ; Erosion control ; Eutrophication ; Lakes ; Reservoirs ; Good agricultural practices ; Economic aspects
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048855)
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Current patterns of agricultural expansion and intensification are bringing unprecedented environmental externalities, including impacts on water quality. While water pollution is slowly starting to receive the attention it deserves, the contribution of agriculture to this problem has not yet received sufficient consideration.
We need a much better understanding of the causes and effects of agricultural water pollution as well as effective means to prevent and remedy the problem. In the existing literature, information on water pollution from agriculture is highly dispersed. This repost is a comprehensive review and covers different agricultural sectors (including crops, livestock and aquaculture), and examines the drivers of water pollution in these sectors as well as the resulting pressures and changes in water bodies, the associated impacts on human health and the environment, and the responses needed to prevent pollution and mitigate its risks.
We need a much better understanding of the causes and effects of agricultural water pollution as well as effective means to prevent and remedy the problem. In the existing literature, information on water pollution from agriculture is highly dispersed. This repost is a comprehensive review and covers different agricultural sectors (including crops, livestock and aquaculture), and examines the drivers of water pollution in these sectors as well as the resulting pressures and changes in water bodies, the associated impacts on human health and the environment, and the responses needed to prevent pollution and mitigate its risks.
3 Mateo-Sagasta, Javier; Turral, H.; Burke, J. 2018. Global drivers of water pollution from agriculture. In Mateo-Sagasta, Javier; Zadeh, S. M.; Turral, H. (Eds.). More people, more food, worse water?: a global review of water pollution from agriculture. Rome, Italy: FAO; Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). pp.15-38.
Water pollution ; Agricultural wastes ; Food consumption ; Diet ; Income ; Population growth ; Farming systems ; Cropping systems ; Intensification ; Irrigated farming ; Fertilizer application ; Pesticide application ; Livestock production ; Aquaculture
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048857)
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4 Diendere, A.; Nguyen, G.; Del Corso, J.-P.; Kephaliacos, C. 2018. Modeling the relationship between pesticide use and farmers' beliefs about water pollution in Burkina Faso. Ecological Economics, 151:114-121. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.05.002]
Pesticide application ; Water pollution ; Farmers' attitudes ; Beliefs ; Water quality ; Agricultural practices ; Environmental effects ; Econometrics ; Models / Burkina Faso / Boulmiougou / Mogtedo / Vy
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048917)
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Burkina Faso is currently facing a serious deterioration of water quality due to the use of pesticides in agriculture, which is an even greater challenge for the government since farmers are unaware of the toxicity of these chemicals. Therefore, reducing pesticide use requires updating farmers' beliefs about the environmental and health consequences of their actions. Drawing on the theory of positional objectivism developed by Sen, this study seeks to determine the influence of various positional characteristics (gender, education level, socio-cultural factors, etc.) on individual beliefs. In so doing, it uses a recursive bivariate probit model. The model was tested using data collected from a sample of 389 farmers. The results from this model showed that the more farmers' had beliefs about the degradation of water quality, the less they were inclined to use pesticides. These beliefs were based on personal lived experiences and were also formed through interactions with other farmers. Moreover, government agencies and NGOs in regular contact with the farmers played a crucial role in shifting the farmers' observational positions.
5 Zadeh, S. M.; Spottorno, C.; Turral, H.; Gu, B.; Opio, C. 2018. Pesticides. In Mateo-Sagasta, Javier; Zadeh, S. M.; Turral, H. (Eds.). More people, more food, worse water?: a global review of water pollution from agriculture. Rome, Italy: FAO; Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). pp.77-91.
Pesticide application ; Water pollution ; Groundwater ; Surface water ; Lakes ; Reservoirs ; Chemical contamination ; Public health ; Agricultural sector ; Environmental effects
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048866)
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6 Karg, H.; Schlesinger, J. 2018. Open space farming. In Karg, H.; Drechsel, Pay (Eds.). Atlas of West African urban food systems: examples from Ghana and Burkina Faso. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). pp.15-29.
Farming systems ; Open spaces ; Urban agriculture ; Irrigated farming ; Wastewater irrigation ; Shifting cultivation ; Dry season ; Wet season ; Cultivated land ; Crop production ; Leaf vegetables ; Soil management ; Wastewater treatment ; Biochar ; Pesticide application ; Health hazards ; Farmers / Ghana / Burkina Faso / Tamale / Ouagadougou / Boulmiougou / Gumbehene / Kossodo
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049017)
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7 Islam, A. R. Md. T.; Shill, B. K.; Salam, R.; Siddik, Md. N. A.; Patwary, M. A. 2020. Insight into farmers’ agricultural adaptive strategy to climate change in northern Bangladesh. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 26p. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-020-00681-6]
Climate change adaptation ; Farmers ; Strategies ; Agriculture ; Pesticide application ; Financing ; Loans ; Socioeconomic environment ; Policies ; Households ; Models / Bangladesh / Taraganj / Debiganj
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049588)
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Adaptation is an emerging issue to control the threatening consequences of climate change in the agricultural sector particularly. The present study aimed to identify the adopted strategies by the farmers and contributing factors that affected the adaptation strategies in the northern region of Bangladesh. The quantitative and qualitative methods were adopted to analyze the collected data through an authoritative purposive sampling technique and finally interpreted and discussed. The results of adaption strategies showed different variations on pesticides usage. The probit model indicated that age, education, the cultivated area in an acre, housing pattern, perception on climate change and meal per day influence the farmers to triggers an adaptive strategy. The results of the binary logit model are also consistent with the probit model findings. The multi-nominal logit model indicated that age, sex, total cultivated area, and perception of climate change have negatively influenced to adopt strategy 2 (use pesticides), while age, family size and perception of climate change have positively influenced the farmers to adopt strategy 5 (use pesticides + take financial loan). As the farmers in these regions are highly dependent on traditional farming practices, thus, this study suggests that the combinations of the farmers’ indigenous knowledge with well-developed methodical adaptive measures are required to improve the socioeconomic livelihood of the farmers in the northern part of Bangladesh.
8 Sishu, F. K.; Thegaye, E. K.; Schmitter, Petra; Habtu, N. G.; Tilahun, S. A.; Steenhuis, T. S. 2020. Endosulfan pesticide dissipation and residue levels in khat and onion in a sub-humid region of Ethiopia. In Habtu, N. G.; Ayele, D. W.; Fanta, S. W.; Admasu, B. T.; Bitew, M. A. (Eds.). Advances of science and technology. Proceedings of the 7th EAI International Conference on Advancement of Science and Technology (ICAST 2019), Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, 2-4 August 2019. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. pp.16-28. (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (LNICST) Volume 308) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43690-2_2]
Pesticide application ; Endosulfan ; Pesticide residues ; Crop production ; Catha edulis ; Onions ; Subhumid zones ; Wet season ; Dry season ; Farmers / East Africa / Ethiopia / Robit Bata Watershed
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049711)
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Endosulfan, a mixture of a- and ß-isomers, is used by farmers in the wet and dry season for khat and onion production. Khat leaf samples were collected in farmer fields at intervals of 1 h; 1, 5, 9 and 14 d after application. The dissipation rate of a- and ß-isomers and residue level in khat were compared with residue levels in onion. The extraction was done by using Quick Easy Cheap Effective Rugged and Safe (QuEChERS) method and analyzed by Gas Chromatography – Electron Capture Detector (GC-ECD). Greater residue a- and ß-isomer endosulfan levels were found in khat compared to onion as khat leaves are sprayed repeatedly in two week. Residue levels of khat exceeded the tolerable EU limit of 0.05 mg.kg-1 for leafy vegetables and herbs. For both raw and processed onion sample a- and ßendosulfan residues level were below the tolerable of limit EU regulation for bulb vegetables (i.e. 0. 1 mg.kg-1). The mean half-life for the a-isomer of endosulfan was 3.4 d in the wet season and 3.6 d in the dry season whilst that for the ß-isomer was 5.0 d and 5.4 d respectively. Both isomers dissipated fastest in the wet season under conditions of high humidity and precipitation. The ß-isomer persisted longer and had a lower dissipation rate from plants surface compared to the a-isomer.
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