A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides
Mansfield, Becky (Ohio State University)
Werner, Marion (University at Buffalo)
Berndt, Christian (University of Zurich)
Shattuck, Annie (Indiana University Bloomington)
Galt, Ryan (University of California at Davis)
Williams, Bryan (Mississippi State University)
Argüelles, Lucía (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Barri, Fernando Rafael (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina))
Ishii, Marcia (Pesticide Action Network North America)
Kunin, Johana (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET))
Lapegna, Pablo (University of Georgia)
Romero, Adam (University of Washington)
Caicedo, Andres (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Abhigya (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)
Castro-Vargas, María Soledad (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Marquez, Emily (Pesticide Action Network North America)
Ojeda, Diana (University of The Andes, Colombia (UniAndes))
Ramirez, Fernando (University of Costa Rica)
Tittor, Anne (University of Jena)

Data:	2024
Resum:	The global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous generics sector, shifts in geographies of pesticide production, and dynamics of agrarian change have led to more pesticide use, expanding to farm systems that hitherto used few such inputs. Declining effectiveness due to pesticide resistance and anemic institutional support for non-chemical alternatives also have driven intensification in conventional systems. As an inter-disciplinary network of pesticide scholars, we seek to renew the social science research agenda on pesticides to better understand this suite of contemporary changes. To identify research priorities, challenges, and opportunities, we develop the pesticide complex as a heuristic device to highlight the reciprocal and iterative interactions among agricultural practice, the agrochemical industry, civil society-shaped regulatory actions, and contested knowledge of toxicity. Ultimately, collaborations among social scientists and across the social and biophysical sciences can illuminate recent transformations and their uneven socioecological effects. A reinvigorated critical scholarship that embraces the multifaceted nature of pesticides can identify the social and ecological constraints that drive pesticide use and support alternatives to chemically driven industrial agriculture.
Nota:	Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Global pesticide complex ; Pesticide industry ; Pesticide regulation ; Pesticide social science research agenda ; Pesticide toxicity ; Pesticides
Publicat a:	Agriculture and human values, Vol. 41, issue 2 (June 2024) , p. 395-412, ISSN 1572-8366

DOI: 10.1007/s10460-023-10492-w

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