Emissions of pesticides in the European Union: a new regional-level dataset

We present a European Union (EU)-wide dataset of estimated quantities of active substances of plant protection product applied on crops (also called “emissions”). Our estimates are derived from data reported by eight EU countries and extrapolated to encompass all EU regions using regression models....

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Published in:Scientific data 2023-12, Vol.10 (1), p.869-869, Article 869
Main Authors: Udias, Angel, Galimberti, Francesco, Dorati, Chiara, Pistocchi, Alberto
Format: Article
Language:English
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704/172/4081
704/844/685
706/1143
Agricultural land
Agriculture
Climate
Data Descriptor
Emissions
Estimates
Europe
European Union
Humanities and Social Sciences
Land use
multidisciplinary
Pesticides
Pesticides - analysis
Plant protection
Regression analysis
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
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Summary:We present a European Union (EU)-wide dataset of estimated quantities of active substances of plant protection product applied on crops (also called “emissions”). Our estimates are derived from data reported by eight EU countries and extrapolated to encompass all EU regions using regression models. These models consider both climate and agricultural land use data. This allows us to spatially represent pesticide use at NUTS Level 3 of the European statistical mapping units, and within various agricultural land cover classes in each region. We compare our estimates with aggregated data provided by EUROSTAT and with independent, detailed data for the United Kingdom, highlighting an error typically within one order of magnitude. Our estimates can provide insights into the distribution and patterns of pesticide use in the EU around the year 2015. The estimate is most reliable for Western and Southern Europe. Outside these regions, data scarcity makes extrapolation more uncertain, potentially limiting the ability to accurate depict regional variations in pesticide use.
ISSN:2052-4463
2052-4463
DOI:10.1038/s41597-023-02753-4