Mapping Geospatial Processes Affecting the Environmental Fate of Agricultural Pesticides in Africa.

ABSTRACT: The application of agricultural pesticides in Africa can have negative effects on human health and the environment. The aim of this study was to identify African environments that are vulnerable to the accumulation of pesticides by mapping geospatial processes affecting pesticide fate. The study modelled processes associated with the environmental fate of agricultural pesticides using publicly available geospatial datasets. Key geospatial processes affecting the environmental fate of agricultural pesticides were selected after a review of pesticide fate models and maps for leaching, surface runoff, sedimentation, soil storage and filtering capacity, and volatilization were created. The potential and limitations of these maps are discussed. We then compiled a database of studies that measur

SUBMITTER: Hendriks CMJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6801543 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature