Environmental Guidelines for Pesticide Use on Industrial Crops - UNEP Environmental Management Guidelines No. 1

Pest control is directly related to two of man's most pressing problems: the provision of food and agricultural commodities for ever-expanding populations and the maintenance of health by the suppression of vectors of human disease. Although many crop pests have been overcome effectively by cultural management or by other non-chemical means, during the past three decades there has been a continually increasing use of pesticides in the control procedures.