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AGROW world crop protection news.
Publisher: [Richmond, Surrey, UK] : PJB Publications

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Biodiversity : new leads for the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries

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The continuing quest for new drugs and agrochemicals has seen researchers looking to the natural world for potential products. Plants and microorganisms have long been investigated as sources of new lead compounds, but the scope of this book has been widened to include substances derived from marine organisms. Advances in genetic engineering, high throughput screening and structure elucidation have also opened up further avenues for exploration. Competitive pressure from the field of combinatorial chemistry has expedited new approaches to natural product analysis and stimulated debate on the i


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Selected historic agricultural data important to environmental quality in the United States
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Year: 2012 Publisher: Reston, Va. : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey,

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Selected historic agricultural data important to environmental quality in the United States
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Year: 2012 Publisher: Reston, Va. : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey,

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Le Roundup face à ses juges
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ISBN: 9782707197399 2707197394 Year: 2017 Publisher: Paris: La Découverte,

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"Depuis plusieurs années, l'inquiétude ne cesse de croître quant aux dangers du pesticide le plus utilisé au monde dans les champs et les jardins : le glyphosate. D'autant qu'en 2015, le Centre international de recherche sur le cancer l'a déclaré "cancérigène probable" pour l'Homme, contredisant ainsi les agences de santé américaines ou européennes qui avaient assuré l'innocuité du Roundup de Monsanto, puissant herbicide dont le principe actif est le glyphosate. Prolongeant son enquête retentissante de 2008 sur les dangers des produits toxiques de la firme américaine ("Le Monde selon Monsanto", livre et film), Marie-Monique Robin montre dans ce livre (et le film associé) que la dangerosité du glyphosate est plus grande encore qu'on le craignait. Dans le monde entier, il rend malades ou tue sols, plantes, animaux et humains, car l'herbicide est partout : eau, air, pluie, sols et aliments. Le produit, cancérigène, est aussi un perturbateur endocrinien, un puissant antibiotique et un chélateur de métaux. D'où autant d'effets délétères documentés ici par des entretiens très forts avec des victimes aux États-Unis, en Argentine, en France et au Sri Lanka, ainsi qu'avec de nombreux scientifiques. Ce livre choc révèle l'un des plus grands scandales sanitaires et environnementaux de l'histoire moderne. Il montre que, face à l'impuissance ou l'absence de volonté des agences et des gouvernements pour y mettre fin, la société civile mondiale se mobilise : en octobre 2016, s'est tenu à La Haye le Tribunal international Monsanto, où juges et victimes ont instruit le procès du Roundup, en l'absence de Monsanto, qui a refusé d'y participer. Donnant son fil conducteur au livre, ce procès a conduit à un avis juridique très argumenté, qui pourrait faire reconnaître le crime d'"écocide", ce qui permettrait de poursuivre pénalement les dirigeants des firmes responsables."


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The pesticide conspiracy
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ISBN: 0385138847 0385133847 Year: 1978 Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday,

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Agricultural chemicals : USDA could enhance pesticide and fertilizer usage data, improve outreach, and better leverage resources : report to congressional requesters.
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Year: 2010 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office,

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How to comply with the Worker Protection Standard for agricultural pesticides : what employers need to know
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Year: 2005 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances,

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Economic poisoning : industrial waste and the chemicalization of American agriculture
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ISBN: 0520381572 Year: 2022 Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press,

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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.


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Agricultural chemicals : USDA could enhance pesticide and fertilizer usage data, improve outreach, and better leverage resources : report to congressional requesters.
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Year: 2010 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office,

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