{"id":121084,"date":"2021-03-31T07:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T14:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/64-of-farmland-at-risk-of-pesticide-pollution-revealed-in-global-map-of-agricultural-land-across-168-countries"},"modified":"2021-03-31T07:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T14:22:18","slug":"64-of-farmland-at-risk-of-pesticide-pollution-revealed-in-global-map-of-agricultural-land-across-168-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/64-of-farmland-at-risk-of-pesticide-pollution-revealed-in-global-map-of-agricultural-land-across-168-countries","title":{"rendered":"64% of Farmland at Risk of Pesticide Pollution \u2013 Revealed in Global Map of Agricultural Land Across 168 Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/64-of-farmland-at-risk-of-pesticide-pollution-revealed-in-global-map-of-agricultural-land-across-168-countries3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur study has revealed 64 percent of the world\u2019s arable land is at risk of pesticide pollution. This is important because the wider scientific literature has found that pesticide pollution can have adverse impacts on human health and the environment,\u201d said Dr. Tang.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>There is concern that overuse of pesticides will tip the balance, destabilize ecosystems and degrade the quality of water sources that humans and animals rely on to survive.<\/p>\n<p><b>The future outlook<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Global pesticide use is <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/292\/5515\/281.full\">expected<\/a> to increase as the global population heads towards an expected 8.5 billion by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur study has revealed 64 percent of the world\u2019s arable land is at risk of pesticide pollution. This is important because the wider scientific literature has found that pesticide pollution can have adverse impacts on human health and the environment,\u201d said Dr. Tang. There is concern that overuse of pesticides will tip the balance, destabilize [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}