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Synthetic organic insecticides have served for the past half century as the principal means to control insect-borne diseases and minimize losses in food and fibre production from pest insect attack. Pests destroy about one-third of the world food supply during growth, harvesting and storage, even with the use of pesticides and other control methods (Ware, 1994). Without pesticides, especially in the tropics, there would be dramatic losses of crops, greatly exacerbating existing food shortages in developing countries (Forget, 1991). The world population is expected to grow by more than one billion people or about 20% in the next decade, which in turn also requires expanded use of agrochemicals for efficient agriculture. This can only be achieved by the most effective use of the current insecticides and the development of better compounds for the years ahead.
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Casida, J.E., Quistad, G.B. (1997). Safer and more effective insecticides for the future. In: Rosen, D., Tel-Or, E., Hadar, Y., Chen, Y. (eds) Modern Agriculture and the Environment. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 71. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5418-5_1
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