Pesticide use in banana and plantain production and risk perception among local actors in Talamanca, Costa Rica

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Plantago 100%
• Costa Rica 91%
• Musa 90%
• Pesticides 69%
• Economics 14%
• Farmers 14%
• Occupational Groups 13%
• Crop Protection 11%
• Child 8%
• Psychological Handling 7%
• Social Conditions 7%
• Farms 7%
• Risk Management 6%
• Poverty 6%
• Fathers 6%
• Focus Groups 5%
• Risk Assessment 5%
• Poisons 4%
• Interviews 4%
• Technology 4%
• Pressure 4%
• Mothers 3%
• Safety 3%
• Health 3%
• Population 2%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• risk perception 75%
• pesticide 54%
• plantation 33%
• smallholder 15%
• gender 12%
• economics 10%
• exposure 10%
• crop protection 9%
• social condition 8%
• monoculture 7%
• poverty 6%
• risk management 5%
• health risk 5%
• farm 5%
• risk assessment 4%
• safety 4%
• hazard 4%
• health 4%
• effect 2%
• method 1%

Chemical Compounds

• Pesticide 57%
• Risk Assessment 7%
• Safety 5%
• Toxic 4%
• Pressure 3%