Declining International Cooperation on Pesticide Regulation Frittering Away Food Security /

• Main Authors: Yeung, May T. (Author), Kerr, William A. (Author), Coomber, Blair (Author), Lantz, Matthew (Author), McConnell, Alyse (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy
• Subjects: International economics.; Agricultural economics.; Economics.; Agricultural Economics.; International Economics.

This Palgrave Pivot investigates barriers to international agricultural trade caused by a lack of standardized maximum residue levels (MRL) for pesticides. As upwards of ninety percent of the food entering international supply chains will show pesticide residues, this issue poses a serious threat to...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Why Maximum Residue Limits for Pesticides are an Important International Issue
• 2. The Importance of Trade for Food Security
• 3. Incentives, or Not, for Governments to Remove Asynchronous MRLs as Trade Barriers
• 4. The Economics of International Harmonization of MRLs
• 5. Previous Examinations of MRLs
• 6. Case Studies of Trade Problems Related to MRLs
• 7. What Do Administrators Say?
• 8. Institutional Initiatives to Deal with Internationally Asynchronous MRLs
• 9. The Way Forward. .