Dependence on chemical pesticides has become one of the most pressing challenges to
global environmental sustainability and public health. Considerable regulatory efforts have …

The global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science
research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous generics sector, shifts in geographies …

Assessments of pesticide impacts globally and holistic policies to address them require
accurate pesticide use data, but good use data are difficult to find. For comparable estimates …

Agriculture is now more dependent on pesticides than ever. The value of global pesticide
imports increased 3x faster in the 2000s than in the 1990s. Structural transformations in the …

Pesticides are an important and widely used tool for crop protection, but they also pose
significant risks to agricultural sustainability, human health and the environment. In this …

The expansion of commercial agriculture is one of the primary drivers of livelihood and land-
use changes in the world. Globalisation and other factors have intensified this expansion to …

The ubiquity of chemicals demands new ways of thinking about human–nature
assemblages. This article develops a dialogue between agrarian political economy, critical …

CONTEXT Integration of farms into markets with adoption of maize as a cash crop can
significantly increase income of farms of the developing world. However, in some cases, the …

Demands for drastically reducing pesticide use call for different perspectives and narratives
that can open new understandings of pesticide use and enact new action plans …

In this paper we develop the concept of “inscrutable spaces” to describe spaces that are
made difficult to know by an interplay of biophysical, epistemic, and political economic …