Pesticide use in Brazil in the era of agroindustralization and globalization

摘要

Although most environmentalists expect profound change in pesticide use (and associated human health hazards and environmental degradation) to be brought about by agricultural trade liberalization in developing countries, empirical evidence on this subject is thin. A dearth of reliable data on pesticide use in developing countries has prevented systematic research in this erea. In this paper, we have analyzed pesticide use in Brazil in the 1990s, a decade characterized by trade liberalization.