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The toxicity of pesticides to the environment and humans is often framed as an unfortunate effect of their benefits to agricultural production. In Economic Poisoning, Adam M. Romero upends this narrative and provides a fascinating new history of pesticides in American industrial agriculture prior to World War II. Through impeccable archival research, Romero reveals the ways in which late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American agriculture, especially in California, functioned less as a market for novel pest-killing chemical products and more as a sink for the accumulating toxic wastes of mining, oil production, and chemical manufacturing. Connecting farming ecosystems to technology and the economy, Romero provides an intriguing reconceptualization of pesticides that forces readers to rethink assumptions about food, industry, and the relationship between human and nonhuman environments.
Agricultural chemicals industry --- Pesticides --- Factory and trade waste --- Environmental aspects
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Chemical industry --- Agricultural chemicals industry --- Industries chimiques --- Produits chimiques agricoles --- Industrie --- Canada.
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"How Hawaiʻi became the epicenter of the biotech seed industry, and how a resistance movement arose to confront the industry's power. Hawaiʻi is a primary site for development of herbicide-resistant corn seed and, until recently, was host to more experimental field trials of genetically engineered crops than anywhere else in the world. It is also a node of powerful resistance. While documentaries and popular news stories have profiled the biotech seed industry in Hawaiʻi, Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility is the first book to detail the social and historical conditions by which the chemical-seed oligopoly came to occupy the most geographically isolated islands in the world and made the soils of Hawaiʻi the epicenter of agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology testing. Andrea Brower, an activist-scholar from Hawaiʻi, examines the consequences related to genetically engineered seed development for Hawaiʻi's people and the social movement that has risen in response. With insights beyond the islands, Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility illuminates why visions for a radically better world must be expanded by intersectional and systemically oriented movements. "-- ""Details the social and historical conditions by which Hawaiʻi became the epicenter of the biotech seed industry, and how a resistance movement arose to confront the industry's power"--Provided by the publisher"--
E-books --- Plantes transgeniques --- Semences --- Agricultural chemicals industry --- Transgenic plants --- Seed industry and trade --- Industrie --- Hawaii.
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In April 2013, about 30 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer detonated during a fire at a facility in West, Texas, killing at least 14 people and damaging nearby schools, homes, and a nursing home. This incident raised concerns about the risks posed by similar facilities across the country. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) play a central role in protecting workers and communities from chemical accidents, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) administers a chemical facility security program. This book addresses how man
Ammonium nitrate --- Chemical industry --- Fertilizer industry --- Agricultural chemicals industry --- German saltpeter --- Nitric acid ammonium salt --- Norway saltpeter --- Nitrates --- Safety measures.
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"The Monsanto Papers is the inside story of Lee Johnson's landmark lawsuit against Monsanto, a David-and-Goliath showdown pitting a dying cancer victim and an eclectic team of young, ambitious lawyers against one of the world's most powerful corporate giants. For Lee, the case was a race against the clock, with doctors predicting he wouldn't survive long enough to take the witness stand. For the public, the legal challenge presented a question of corporate accountability. With enough money and influence, could a company endanger its customers, hide evidence, manipulate regulators, and get away with it all--for decades?"--
Agricultural chemicals industry --- Corrupt practices --- Johnson, Lee. --- Monsanto Chemical Company --- Monsanto Chemical Company. --- Trials, litigation, etc. --- United States.
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The Handbook of Cleaner Production comprises a series of reference guides to cleaner production methods, technologies, and practices for key industry sectors. Each volume covers, for each industry sector: * manufacturing technologies * waste management * pollution control and remediation * methods for estimating and reporting emissions * treatment and control technologies * health risk exposures for workers and the wider community * cost data for pollution management * cleaner production and prevention options * safe chemical handling practices Best Practices in the Agrochemi
Agricultural chemicals industry. --- Agricultural chemicals --- Best management practices (Pollution prevention) --- Industrial ecology. --- Environmental aspects. --- Materials management --- BMPs (Pollution prevention) --- Pollution prevention --- Nonpoint source pollution --- Agricultural pollution --- Chemical industry --- Farm supply industries
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Although consumption of spirits on a global scale is vast, the spirits industry derives its profits from a relatively small number of countries and product lines. This valuable book provides an overview of all aspects of the industry, covering all major categories of spirits, and contains a wealth of information on trading statistics, regulations and consumption patterns. It discusses the challenges facing the giant companies, profiling the leading companies in detail, and assesses whether their structure is appropriate to long-term success in the industry.The international spirits ind
Fertilizer industry. --- Fertilizers. --- Artificial fertilizers --- Chemical fertilizers --- Crops --- Fertilisers --- Fertilization of soils --- Fertilizers and manures --- Field crops --- Soils --- Agricultural chemicals --- Plants --- Soil amendments --- Soil fertility --- Agricultural chemicals industry --- Fertilizers --- Fertilization --- Nutrition --- Liquor industry. --- Distilling industries. --- Licensed beverage industry --- Beverage industry --- Liquor traffic --- Alcoholic beverage industry
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Improving fertilizer recommendations for increased return from fertilizer investments and optimized crop response to fertilizer has been a major area of investigation of IFDC. Since 2008, IFDC through its Natural Resource Management (NRM) Program has partnered with national agricultural research services to undertake research, development and extensive on-farm trials in various agroecosystems in West Africa to develop site specific fertilizer recommendations for crops. Validation trials have been conducted in many countries (Benin (maize, cassava), Burkina (rice, maize and sorghum) Ghana (maize, cocoa and cassava) and Togo (maize and cassava). However, these fertilizer recommendation data remain scattered and most of them need final statistical analysis before they can be fully utilized and/or scaled out. As part of its efforts to improve fertilizer use and efficiency in West Africa, and following the recent adoption of the West African fertilizer recommendation action plan (RAP) by ECOWAS, IFDC has taken technical lead with key partner institutions and experts to build on previous and current fertilizer recommendations for various crops and countries in West Africa for wider uptake by public policy makers and fertilizer industry actors.
Fertilizers --- Fertilizer industry --- Life sciences. --- Agriculture. --- Ecosystems. --- Soil science. --- Soil conservation. --- Life Sciences. --- Soil Science & Conservation. --- Conservation of soil --- Erosion control, Soil --- Soil erosion --- Soil erosion control --- Soils --- Agricultural conservation --- Soil management --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Agriculture --- Earth sciences --- Biocenoses --- Biocoenoses --- Biogeoecology --- Biological communities --- Biomes --- Biotic community ecology --- Communities, Biotic --- Community ecology, Biotic --- Ecological communities --- Ecosystems --- Natural communities --- Ecology --- Population biology --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Control --- Prevention --- Conservation --- Artificial fertilizers --- Chemical fertilizers --- Crops --- Fertilisers --- Fertilization of soils --- Fertilizers and manures --- Field crops --- Agricultural chemicals --- Plants --- Soil amendments --- Soil fertility --- Agricultural chemicals industry --- Fertilization --- Nutrition --- Endangered ecosystems. --- Threatened ecosystems --- Biotic communities --- Nature conservation
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