HEALTH COSTS AND EXTERNALITIES OF PESTICIDE USE IN LOCUST AND GRASSHOPPER CONTROL IN THE SAHEL

Victorin A. Houndekon and Hugo De Groote

No 20966, 1998 Annual meeting, August 2-5, Salt Lake City, UT from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: To evaluate the economic cost of classical chemical control of locusts, externalities of chemical pesticides in the Sahel are estimated through a farmer survey. The costs of human health, losses in domestic animals and of destroying obsolete pesticides are estimated at $4 per treated ha for chemical control.

Keywords: Environmental Economics and Policy; Health Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 9
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.20966

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