Defoliants
A defoliant is any herbicidal chemical sprayed or dusted on plants to cause their leaves to fall off. Defoliants are widely used for the selective removal of weeds in managing croplands and lawns. Worldwide use of defoliants, along with the development of other herbicides and pesticides, allowed for the Green Revolution, an increase in agricultural production in mid-20th century. Defoliants have also been used in warfare as a means to deprive an enemy of food crops and/or hiding cover, most notably by the United Kingdom during the Malayan Emergency and the United States in the Vietnam War.
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ILO: International Labour Organisation · 5 June 2023 English
World employment and social outlook
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ILO: International Labour Organisation · 8 March 2023 English
World employment and social outlook
encephalitis, Rocky Mountain spotted chemosterilants, defoliants, fever, tularaemia, Q fever, trypanosoma, desiccants …
UNITAR: United Nations Institute For Training And Research · 22 February 2023 English
Before joining WRI, he led the Policy and Analysis Branch of the UN Division for Sustainable Development and headed the team which supported the negotiation of the Agenda and guided …
2000 and 2010. Therefore, aerial spraying of defoliants was expanded as well UNITAR | GLOBAL DIPLOMACY …
INREA: National Institute for research in technical sciences for the environment and agriculture · 2023 French
chemical as dangerous as the TCDD dioxin, present in defoliants used from 1964 to 1973 during the Vietnam War …
ACB: African Centre for Biodiversity · 2023 English
oldest and most widely available herbicides and defoliants in the world, having been commercially available …
UN: The United Nations · 29 December 2022 French
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la destruction de cultures à l’aide d’agents défoliants 89 . Il existe toutefois, dans le domaine militaire …
MP-IDSA: Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses · 1 December 2022 English
The Organization of Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) implements the CWC’s compliance and verification protocol including declarations by state parties regarding export and import of chemicals in the Schedules.39 The …
and key precursors, as well as certain chemical defoliants; • Equipment specially designed or modified for …
SPF: Sasakawa Peace Fondation · 24 October 2022 English
What is the Indo-Pacific? 145 (1) A paradigmatic view of the history of the Indian Ocean world 146 (2) A paradigmatic view of the history of the Pacific world 147 …
of mass destruction, and chemical weapons like defoliants destroy not only human life over wide areas, … to this is the use of biological weapons and defoliants. Hostile countries can indirect- ly damage each …
WEF: World Economic Forum · 14 September 2022 English
Understanding voluntary carbon markets detailed articles on the history of REDD+ financing and forests including the many challenges it has faced and the When it comes to the evolution of …
community ownership, with 1.4 million gallons of defoliants were sprayed across 600,000 hectares. households …
TNI: Transnational Institute · 26 June 2022 English
Since then, the rate of settlement has increased dramatically to the extent that what was The Role of Green Technology mostly a barren, frontier region defined by rocky and sandy …
kinds of techniques will be vital to combat spray defoliants from the sky. But the poppies the increasing …
