Titre :	Pesticides, productivity and farmer health : a Philippine case study
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	J.M. Antle, Auteur ; P.L. Pingali, Auteur
Importance :	p 361-387
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Catégories :	SCIENCES AGRICOLES
Mots-clés :	PESTICIDES  SANTE DES AGRICULTEURS  PHILIPPINE  PRODUCTION AGRICOLE
Résumé :	The most important components of the human capital of rural people in developing countries is health so there is a growing body of literature showing the productivity effects of health associated with nutrition. So this paper presents an approach that integrates aspects of the health and education literatures to study the farm productivity effects and the health effects associated with on-farm pesticide use. This approach was implemented in a unique study of rice production and farmer health in two regions of the Philippines. Production data from a farm – level survey were integrated with health data collected from the same population of farmers to measure the impacts of pesticide use on farmer health and the impacts of farmer health on productivity. These relationships were then used in a simulation analysis to investigate the health and productivity tradeoffs implied by a policy to restrict pesticide use. The study focuses on two aspects of pesticide productivity : the conventional , direct effect of pesticides used as a production input to control pests and an indirect human health effect, operating through the chronic effects that pesticide exposure has on farmer’s health and the effects that farmer’shas on farm productivity. The empirical approach deveveloped in this paper is based on a three-step procedure : the first one involves the construction of a variable measuring health impairment, based on data generated by clinical examinations of a subset of farmers in the production survey. The second step of the analysis is to include the estimated health impairment variable as an explanatory variable in a cost function to estimate the productivity of pesticides and the productivity effects of health impairment. The last one is to use the results from the first two steps in a policy simulation in which the production and health relationships that were estimated are simulated.
Numéro du document :	A 6290/H00366
Niveau Bibliographique :	2
Bull1 (Theme principale) :	FORESTERIE
Bull2 (Theme secondaire) :	GENIE FORESTIER

Pesticides, productivity and farmer health : a Philippine case study [texte imprimé] / J.M. Antle, Auteur ; P.L. Pingali, Auteur . - [s.d.] . - p 361-387.
Langues : Anglais (eng)

Catégories :	SCIENCES AGRICOLES
Mots-clés :	PESTICIDES  SANTE DES AGRICULTEURS  PHILIPPINE  PRODUCTION AGRICOLE
Résumé :	The most important components of the human capital of rural people in developing countries is health so there is a growing body of literature showing the productivity effects of health associated with nutrition. So this paper presents an approach that integrates aspects of the health and education literatures to study the farm productivity effects and the health effects associated with on-farm pesticide use. This approach was implemented in a unique study of rice production and farmer health in two regions of the Philippines. Production data from a farm – level survey were integrated with health data collected from the same population of farmers to measure the impacts of pesticide use on farmer health and the impacts of farmer health on productivity. These relationships were then used in a simulation analysis to investigate the health and productivity tradeoffs implied by a policy to restrict pesticide use. The study focuses on two aspects of pesticide productivity : the conventional , direct effect of pesticides used as a production input to control pests and an indirect human health effect, operating through the chronic effects that pesticide exposure has on farmer’s health and the effects that farmer’shas on farm productivity. The empirical approach deveveloped in this paper is based on a three-step procedure : the first one involves the construction of a variable measuring health impairment, based on data generated by clinical examinations of a subset of farmers in the production survey. The second step of the analysis is to include the estimated health impairment variable as an explanatory variable in a cost function to estimate the productivity of pesticides and the productivity effects of health impairment. The last one is to use the results from the first two steps in a policy simulation in which the production and health relationships that were estimated are simulated.
Numéro du document :	A 6290/H00366
Niveau Bibliographique :	2
Bull1 (Theme principale) :	FORESTERIE
Bull2 (Theme secondaire) :	GENIE FORESTIER