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  • check food for the actual levels of pesticide residues. A US organic food advocacy group, the Environmental Working Group, is known for creating a list of...
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  • groups at risk of suicide; making methods less accessible may be useful in suicide prevention. Limiting the availability of means such as pesticides and...
    86 KB (9,607 words) - 19:03, 21 May 2024
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    Agriculture (redirect from Working the land)
    estimated in 1992 that three million pesticide poisonings occur annually, causing 220,000 deaths. Pesticides select for pesticide resistance in the pest population...
    181 KB (17,609 words) - 03:03, 16 May 2024
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    gram-positive, soil-dwelling bacterium, the most commonly used biological pesticide worldwide. B. thuringiensis also occurs naturally in the gut of caterpillars...
    77 KB (7,829 words) - 21:26, 25 April 2024
  • Pest Management Regulatory Agency (category Pesticide regulation)
    Trade Agreement Technical Working Group, the European Union, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). They work to align the...
    34 KB (3,409 words) - 07:42, 14 January 2024
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    Economy of Norway (category OECD member economies)
    g/artikler/arbeidsledighet-i-norge "Unemployment rate by age group". data.oecd.org. OECD. Retrieved 8 September 2020. SSB, https://www.ssb...
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  • World Bank Group. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 May 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2023. "Subsidies and other transfers (% of expense) - OECD members"...
    60 KB (7,292 words) - 17:45, 8 April 2024
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    rate in the world. South Korea has the highest recorded suicide rate in the OECD. In South Korea, it is estimated to affect 0.02 percent of the population...
    50 KB (5,624 words) - 06:14, 20 May 2024
  • for Pesticide Residues and contributed to technical groups of the OECD Working Group on Pesticides. Much of this work has included the development of technical...
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    Policies: Concepts and Measurements," OECD Working Paper No. 75, OECD Development Center, August 1992, SourceOECD.org, 13 July 2007 http://miranda.sourceoecd...
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    Republic of Ireland (category OECD members)
    member of the EU and a founding member of the Council of Europe and the OECD. The Irish government has followed a policy of military neutrality through...
    221 KB (19,645 words) - 23:54, 20 May 2024
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    Organized crime (redirect from Crime group)
    counterfeit goods. In 2007, the OECD reported the scope of counterfeit products to include food, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, electrical components, tobacco...
    166 KB (19,232 words) - 18:15, 16 May 2024
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    Populations of Daphnia have also developed increased resistance to local pesticides. Another factor that affects both phenotypic and behavioural plasticity...
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    Economy of Switzerland (category OECD member economies)
    as of 2013 (down from 1.851 in 2000) according to oecd.org National Accounts at a Glance 2014, OECD Publishing (2014), p. 66. Global Wealth Report 2016...
    102 KB (6,385 words) - 23:00, 18 May 2024
  • Pesticides". Retrieved October 28, 2021. Buhler, Wayne. "Take Steps to Avoid Insecticide Resistance – Pesticide Environmental Stewardship". Pesticide...
    166 KB (15,046 words) - 02:21, 21 May 2024
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    once used as a pesticide. At high levels, these metals pose a health risk. Fertilizers and pesticides: Farmers use fertilizers and pesticides to promote growth...
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    genetically modified crops on health and the environment, the effect on pesticide resistance, the impact of such crops for farmers, and the role of the...
    306 KB (32,715 words) - 02:27, 1 May 2024
  • application (VRA) technologies can apply precise amounts of water, fertilizer, pesticide, herbicide, etc. A number of empirical studies find that VRA improves...
    74 KB (8,256 words) - 07:31, 29 April 2024
  • Duncan (2007, p. 146) Duncan (2007, pp. 146–147) OECD (2009, p. 313) OECD (2008) OECD (2009) OECD (2010). "OECD Composite Leading Indicators News Release" (PDF)...
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    energy intensity is about equal to the OECD average intensity of water, fertiliser, and pesticide use is low for OECD countries. However, the review period...
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