- Title
- Herbicides in modern sustainable agriculture: environmental fate, ecological implications, and human health concerns
- Creator
- Parven, A.; Meftaul, I. Md; Venkateswarlu, K.; Megharaj, M.
- Relation
- International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology Vol. 22, p. 1181-1202
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13762-024-05818-y
- Publisher
- Center for Environment and Energy Research and Studies (C E E R S)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2025
- Description
- Herbicides play a crucial role in modern agriculture by controlling weeds and ensuring sustainable crop productivity. However, the use of herbicides has raised concerns regarding their contamination, posing serious threat to the environment, biodiversity, and food safety. Recent trends indicate a decline in the overall volume of herbicides usage, suggesting a shift towards more specific and targeted formulations of herbicides. Also, there has been an increased use of systemic and pre-emergence herbicides. The global agriculture still faces several challenges because of the adverse environmental impacts caused by herbicide contamination, both at the application site and offsite. In view of the growing concern, it is necessary to develop new herbicides with greater selectivity or bio-based herbicide that can degrade after successful control of the intended weed population and minimize or eliminate the environmental hazards. Furthermore, the adoption of integrated weed management practices rather than prolonged and repeated use of herbicide in agriculture can effectively reduce the growth of herbicide-resistant weed populations. The present review is a single valuable resource, providing insights into the recent trends and future challenges associated with herbicide use in modern agriculture, with a focus on human health and food safety. Also, we emphasize the advancements in herbicide technology, emergence of new herbicide-resistant weed species, regulatory considerations, and alternative approaches in herbicide use, all of which are particularly valuable to agroecology, policymakers, and stakeholders.
- Subject
- herbicides; herbicide-resistant weeds; Sustainable Development Goal; nontarget effects; food security; human health hazards; sustainable agriculture; SDG 2; SDG 8; SDG 12; SDG 17
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1518124
- Identifier
- uon:57235
- Identifier
- ISSN:1735-1472
- Rights
- This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Language
- eng
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