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Why farmers continue to use pesticides despite environmental, health and sustainability costs

Clevo Wilson, Clem Tisdell

Ecological Economics · 2001 · 897 citations · 33 references

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Environmental and Economic Costs of Pesticide Use

David Pimentel, H. Acquay, M. Biltonen et al. · BioScience · 1992 · 771 citations

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Arthropod biological control agents and pesticides

J. P. Aeschlimann · Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment · 1991 · 568 citations

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Sprayed to Death: Path Dependence, Lock-in and Pest Control Strategies

Robin Cowan, Philip Gunby · The Economic Journal · 1996 · 472 citations

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Population regulation of the rice brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens Stål) within rice fields in the Philippines.

Peter E. Kenmore, F. O. Carin̄o, Christina Perez et al. · Journal of Plant Protection · 1984 · 212 citations

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Pesticides and the third world

Gilles Forget · Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health · 1991 · 165 citations

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