USDA's Measurement Methodology

• "USDA Develops a Method to Measure IPM Adoption", Charles Benbrook. This discussion of the USDA's IPM measurement methodology is from an earlier draft of the Consumers Union book, Pest Management at the Crossroads. This excerpt is longer than the comparable discussion that now appears in Chapter 7, pages 196-199.

• "USDA ERS Appraisal of IPM Practice on US Cropland" an excerpt from OECD review by Dr. Lois Levitan, Cornell University [Review is large file: 414K]

Consumers Union Methodology

• "Indicators of the Sustainability and Impacts of Pest Management Systems" by Dr. Charles Benbrook and Dr. Edward Groth, AAAS Annual Meeting, February 16, 1997 [57K]

World Wildlife Fund Activities

• "Reducing Pesticide Reliance and Risk Through Adoption of IPM: An Environmental and Agricultural Win-Win," Dr. Polly Hoppin, Keynote Speech before the Third National IPM Symposium/Workshop, February 27, 1996

• Adoption of Integrated Weed Management Systems by Corn and Soybean Farmers in 1994: Application of a New Methodology to Measure Adoption of IPM and Pesticide Use and Reliance, Dr. Charles Benbrook, WSSA Annual Meeting, February 1996. [Large file, approximately 400K]

Cornell University Projects

• CU ecologist: Taxing based on food-chain rank would aid the environment, by Roger Segelken in the Cornell Chronicle

• An Overview of PESTICIDE IMPACT ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS (a.k.a."Pesticide Risk Indicators") based on Indexing or Ranking Pesticides by Environmental Impact , Dr. Lois Levitan, an OECD Workshop on Pesticide Risk Indicators, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 21-23, 1997. [Large file: 414K]

• IPM Forum Session Summary, prepared by Dr. Lois Levitan, February 1996

• Environmental Impact Assessment: The Quest for a Holistic Picture, Dr. Susan Riha et al., delivered at the Third National IPM Workshop/Symposium, February, 1996

• AgImpact, an Internet discussion group

• Cornell IPM Labeling Activities are discussed in the section IPM and the Marketplace

Other Activites

• Sustainability Assessment in Agriculture: Annotated Bibliography and Resource List of Methods, John Vickery and Luanne Lohr, 1997. Presents annotated bibliography of tools, publications and programs for assessing agricultural sustainability. Search with the words: "Sustainability Assessment in Agriculture"

• Hayo van der Werf -- "Fuzzy Coded Variables"

• Stemilt Growers

• IPM Adoption: Willingness and Confusion from IPMNet News, Issue no 44, August, 1997

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