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Every day we take for granted hundred of chemicals in our homes while perhaps deploring the use of pesticides by farmers. The benefits that chemicals bring are not totally without risk. It is up to us...
The overuse of insecticides damages the environment. One way of controlling insect pests is by the use of chemicals called sex pheromones. Males are attracted by specific pheromones appropriate to a...
Discusses the problems of pesticides in the Third World. These include outbreaks of secondary pests, pesticide resistance, the need for continuous research and development of improved pesticides and the...
A survey of the effects on foxes, otters, bees, birds, etc. of the effects of DDT, dieldrin, aldrin, glyophosate, lindane, paraquat, 2,4,5-T, ioxynil and phosphorus compounds. The dangers of spray drift on...
Films intended to challenge the notion that ill-health is a matter merely for individual concern, arguing that society is also involved, and change must come about through political action. 1: Argues that...
Documents excessive and uncontrolled use of pesticides in Guatemala. The country’s cotton production depends on aerial spraying of pesticides every two or three days during the harvest. The consequences...
Examines the role of pesticides in correcting the imbalance between world food production and population growth. Shows the work of scientists at Jealott’s Hill Research Station, where test procedures are...
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