Pesticide Use and Fish Harvests in Vietnamese Rice Agroecosystems

Heather Klemick and Erik Lichtenberg ()

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2008, vol. 90, issue 1, pages 1-14

Abstract: Criticisms of the Green Revolution have focused on environmental and human health problems associated with pesticides. Pesticides may also have adverse effects on wild fish and other aquatic animals in rice paddies that supply an additional source of food and income for some farm households and provide natural pest control. We use survey data from the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam to estimate the impact of pesticides on fish harvests from rice fields. The results confirm findings of ecological studies that pesticide use harms fish populations. However, fish harvest losses are small enough that ignoring them is likely economically rational. Copyright ©2008 American Agricultural Economics Association.

Date: 2008

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/servlet/useragent ... &year=2008&part=null link to full text (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.blackwell ... bs.asp?ref=0002-9092

Access Statistics for this article

American Journal of Agricultural Economics is edited by Peter Berck, Robert J. Myers, Ian M. Sheldon and B. Wade Brorsen

More articles in American Journal of Agricultural Economics from American Agricultural Economics Association
Series data maintained by Christopher F. Baum ().