Recent studies have estimated the potential yield impacts of pesticide reductions in the
European Union. While these estimates guide policy design, they are often based on worst …

Integrated pest management (IPM) is an educated and systematic effort to use multiple
control techniques to reduce pest damage to economically acceptable levels while …

Temporal crop diversification could reduce pesticide use by increasing the proportion of
crops with low pesticide use (dilution effects) or enhancing the regulation of pests, weeds …

Widespread contamination of ecosystems with pesticides threatens non-target organisms.
However, the extent to which life-history traits affect pesticide exposure and resulting risk in …

Sustainable agriculture requires balancing crop yields with the effects of pesticides on non-
target organisms, such as bees and other crop pollinators. Field studies demonstrated that …

Land conservation and increased carbon uptake on land are fundamental to achieving the
ambitious targets of the climate and biodiversity conventions. Yet, it remains largely …

Increasing diversity on farms can enhance many key ecosystem services to and from
agriculture, and natural control of arthropod pests is often presumed to be among them. The …

The farming practices adopted since the end of the Second World War, based on large
areas of monocultures and chemical use, have adversely affected the health of farmers and …

Accidents related to pesticides have occurred with increasing frequency in recent years. One
such accident, involving O, O–dimethyl phosphoramidothioate (DMPAT), which is an …

While many pesticides are detrimental to human health and the environment, drastically
reducing their use and risks in agriculture has been set as a key target for global …