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Pesticides and agriculture

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Pesticides have played a critical but sometimes controversial role in the development of agriculture. This book provides an authoritative account of the development of the modern pesticides industr...
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  • 06 August 2018
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  • Discusses the competitive strategies of the major pesticide companies
  • Identifies the main forces driving the pesticides industry
  • Explains the evolution of the pesticide industry as a context for understanding its future development
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Price: £170.00
Publisher: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
Imprint: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
Series: Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Publication Date: 06 August 2018
ISBN: 9781786762795
Format: eBook
BISACs:

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, Agricultural and rural economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy, Sustainable agriculture, Agronomy and crop production, Pest control / plant diseases

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‘…a fascinating and absorbing read…this book will find a readership that extends well beyond those specifically in agriculture. Pesticides and agriculture will be of immediate interest to anyone involved in production agriculture, agricultural education or agricultural research…Beyond this readership, the book should also be of interest to those who work in sectors allied to or associated with agriculture, such as horticulture, agricultural engineering and environmental sciences, as well as educated lay readers and policy makers…As a window into the history and development of the agricultural pesticides industry, I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It has been a joy to review.’
Food Science and Technology – the journal of the Institute of Food Science and Technology; review by Emeritus Professor Ralph Early, Harper Adams University, UK

1.The evolution of the pesticide industry in the Pre-Productivist Period (2500 BC–1929 AD);
2.The evolution of the pesticide industry in the Productivist Period (1930–1973);
3.The evolution of the pesticide industry in the Divergent Period (1974–2017);
4.The evolution of the pesticide industry under Residual Productivism (1974-2017);
5.The evolution of the pesticide industry under Neo-Productivism (1974-2017);
6.The evolution of the pesticide industry under Post-Productivism (1974-2017);
7.The evolution of the pesticide industry under the ‘Sustainability Paradigm’ (1974-2017);
8.The future of pesticides and biotechnologies