@article{00ac8a31f444465888052d7a93990b0a,
title = "Environmental and economic effects of reducing pesticide use in agriculture",
abstract = "Pesticides cause serious damage to agricultural and natural ecosystems. Thus, there is a need to curtail pesticide use and reduce the environmental impacts of pesticides. This study confirms that it should be possible to reduce pesticide use in the US by 50\% without any decrease in crop yields or change in 'cosmetic standards'. The estimated increase in food costs would be only 0.6\%. This increased cost, however, does not take into account the environmental and public benefits of reducing pesticide use by 50\%.",
author = "David Pimentel and Lori McLaughlin and Andrew Zepp and Benyamin Lakitan and Tamara Kraus and Peter Kleinman and Fabius Vancini and Roach, \{W. John\} and Ellen Graap and Keeton, \{William S.\} and Gabe Selig",
note = "Funding Information: Harris (Texas A\&M University), H. Hokkanen (Agricultural Research Centre, Jokioinen, Finland), D. Horn (Ohio State University), C. Huffaker (University of California, Berkeley), H. Janzen (Agriculture Canada), P. Johnson (University of New Hampshire), F. McEwen (University of Guelph), B. Mogensen (National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark), I. Oka (Bogor Research Institute for Food Crops, Indonesia), C. Os-teen (USDA, Washington, DC ), M. Pathak (International Rice Research Institute, Philippines), J. Pierce (Environmental Action, Washington, DC ), E. Radcliffe (University of Minnesota ), J. Schalk (USDA Veg. Lab, Charleston, NC), D. Wen (Chinese Academy of Sciences), K. Stoner (Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station), G. Surgeoner (University of Guelph), G. Teetes (Texas A\&M University), and at Cornell University, T. Dennehy, E. Glass, R. Roush, J. Tette, and C. Wien. We gratefully acknowledge the partial support of this study by a William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Grant to the Centre for Environmental Research.",
year = "1993",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1016/0167-8809(93)90030-S",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "46",
pages = "273--288",
journal = "Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment",
issn = "0167-8809",
publisher = "Elsevier BV",
number = "1-4",
}