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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Mexico and the Pesticide Crusade -- 1. The Death of Ramon Gonzalez -- 2. The Road to Culiacan -- 3. Doctors and Bureaucrats -- 4. Going Home -- 5. King Eight Deer, the Plagues, and the Devastation of the Land -- 6. Technology and Conflict -- 7. Consumers, Workers, Growers, and Experts -- 8. Theory and Consequences -- 9. The Modern Agricultural Dilemma -- 10. Points North -- Afterword: The Death of Ramon Gonzalez and the Twenty-first Century Dilemma -- References -- Index

Pesticide use and procedures in the Culiacan Valley; agribusiness and the state in other areas of intensive food production; problems created by agricultural policies.

Ausgehend von einer Feldstudie in Culiacan, Sinaloa, erläutert der Autor die Gründe für den oft exzessiven Einsatz von Pestiziden, dem viele Landarbeiter zum Opfer fallen, und der dennoch staatlich gefördert wird. Die hohe Erkrankungs- und Sterberate muß im Zusammenhang gesehen werden mit dem unzureichenden Informationsstand der Landarbeiter, der von den Grundbesitzern zur Vermeidung von Ernteausfällen geforderten hohen Dosierung der Pflanzenschutzmittel und dem Fehlen geeigneter Arbeitsschutzvorschriften

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Mexico and the Pesticide Crusade -- 1. The Death of Ramón González -- 2. The Road to Culiacán -- 3. Doctors and Bureaucrats -- 4. Going Home -- 5. King Eight Deer, the Plagues, and the Devastation of the Land -- 6. Technology and Conflict -- 7. Consumers, Workers, Growers, and Experts -- 8. Theory and Consequences -- 9. The Modern Agricultural Dilemma -- 10. Points North -- Afterword: The Death of Ramon Gonzalez and the Twenty-first Century Dilemma -- References -- Index.

This policy brief is the result of an interdisciplinary research workshop with academics and practitioners, held at Bielefeld University in Germany on November 2014, in cooperation with COST Action IS1011 on Climate Change and Migration. The Bielefeld Consultation identified the need to raise awareness of the challenges of planned relocation as an adaptive strategy to climate change or as a consequence of climate policies. Acknowledging the risks and failures of planned relocation, the Consultation suggests principals and precautionary measures to ensure climate justice. And as a result of the Consultation, non-conclusive list of minimum standards for planned relocation are put forward for the consideration of policymakers and practitioners engaged in climate change adaptation and mitigation.