“Pesticides protect the fruit, but not the people”: using community-based ethnography to understand farmworker pesticide-exposure risks

SA Snipes, B Thompson… - … journal of public …, 2009 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We used community-based ethnography and public health risk assessment to
assess beliefs about pesticide exposure risks among farmworkers in the Lower Yakima …

Latino/Hispanic farmworkers and farm work in the eastern United States: the context for health, safety, and justice

TA Arcury, AJ Marín - Latino farmworkers in the Eastern United States …, 2009 - Springer
The context in which farmworkers in the eastern United States (US) labor and live affects
their health and safety, and the process of achieving justice. This context includes …

Childhood asthma, air quality, and social suffering among Mexican Americans in California's San Joaquin Valley:“nobody talks to us here”

NA Schwartz, D Pepper - Medical Anthropology, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Nearly one in five Mexican American children residing in California's San Joaquin Valley
(the Valley) in 2007 had an asthma attack at some point in their life. Numerous …

Pesticide exposure among farmworkers and their families in the eastern United States: matters of social and environmental justice

TA Arcury, SA Quandt - Latino farmworkers in the Eastern United States …, 2009 - Springer
Pesticides are found in the workplaces and living quarters of farmworkers and their families.
Despite federal regulations designed to reduce pesticide exposure among farmworkers …

[PDF][PDF] Pesticide Perceptions in a South African agricultural community

DS Helmus - 2009 - dissertations.wsu.edu
Chair: Marsha Quinlan Due to the scientific uncertainty of pesticide impacts on human
health, limiting pesticide exposure becomes an important task. Socio-economic factors …

Actividad biológica de extractos vegetales en Phyllophaga ravida y P. obsoleta (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae)

MMT Álvarez, AE Castro Ramírez - 2009 - ecosur.repositorioinstitucional.mx
Resumen en español:" Phyllophaga ravida y P. obsoleta son dos especies rizofagas del
complejo “gallina ciega”, cuyas densidades larvales en las parcelas de agricultura de …