Insect Population Dynamics, Pesticide Use, and Farmworker Health
Author: Sunding, David
Date Published: 2000
One of the most serious concerns motivating pesticide regulation is the impact of chemicals on the health of farmers and farmworkers. While there are a large number of potential regulations to address this problem, the typical response of state and federal regulators to concerns about farmworker poisoning is the ban the use of the product in question. This paper considers less extreme interventions, and uses a dynamic, stochastic model to assess their impacts on pesticide productivity, pesticide use, and, ultimately, worker health levels.
Date Published: 2000
One of the most serious concerns motivating pesticide regulation is the impact of chemicals on the health of farmers and farmworkers. While there are a large number of potential regulations to address this problem, the typical response of state and federal regulators to concerns about farmworker poisoning is the ban the use of the product in question. This paper considers less extreme interventions, and uses a dynamic, stochastic model to assess their impacts on pesticide productivity, pesticide use, and, ultimately, worker health levels.
