...Zhenzhen Liu; Longjiao Wen; Xianhui Geng Purpose This paper examines how natural enemies, as ecological control agents, influence farmers’ pesticide use decisions and how this effect is conditioned by farmers’ cognitive understanding of pest–enemy dynamics and their risk attitudes. Design...

... amount of pesticides. Design/methodology/approach The relationship between farm size and pesticide use was investigated by using national household-level panel data from 1995 to 2016. Finding Farms that are small and fragmented lead to the use of large amounts of pesticides in China. For a given...

...Fangbin Qiao; Jikun Huang; Linxiu Zhang; Scott Rozelle Purpose The purpose of this study is trying to document and examine the impacts of pesticide use on farmers' health. Different from previous studies, the paper is not only going to focus on the visible effect, but also the invisible effect...