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

Houndekon, Victorin A.; De Groote, Hugo

doi:10.22004/ag.econ.20966

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

Houndekon, Victorin A. ; De Groote, Hugo

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.

Subject(s):

Environmental Economics and Policy
Health Economics and Policy

Issue Date:

1998

Publication Type:

Conference Paper/ Presentation

DOI and Other Identifiers:

10.22004/ag.econ.20966

Record Identifier:

https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/20966

PURL Identifier:

http://purl.umn.edu/20966