Publication: An Overview of Agricultural Pollution in the Philippines: Summary Report
Date
2016
ISSN
Published
2016
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
The ‘study’ constitutes the totality of
the work and includes multiple components, including
national overviews of agricultural pollution for the three
focus countries, thematic working papers, and an overall
synthesis report. The present report corresponds to the
national overview of agricultural pollution in the
Philippines, and specifically, to the summary of three
background papers on crops, livestock, and fishery systems
respectively. The overview covers water, soil, and air
pollution directly associated with activities and decisions
made at the farm level or its equivalent (that is, vessel
level or pond level in the case of fisheries). It especially
looks at: (a) the use of fertilizers; (b) the use of
pesticides; (c) another cropland management practices
(including the use of plastics, the introduction of invasive
species, irrigation and land preparation practices); (d) the
burning of agricultural residues; (e) animal waste
management (land and aquatic species); and (f) the use of
feed supplements, including antibiotics, hormones, and heavy
metals in animal agriculture (land and aquatic).
Environmental impacts relating to land-use change are beyond
the scope of the review.
Citation
“World Bank. 2016. An Overview of Agricultural Pollution in the Philippines: Summary Report. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29245 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”