“Cost-effectiveness of paying farmers to use more humane pesticides to decrease the suffering of wild insects” by Vasco Grilo🔸

The views expressed here are my own, not those of people who provided feedback. Summary I estimate the cost-effectiveness of paying farmers to use more humane pesticides to decrease the suffering of wild insects is 236 DALY/$, or: 23.7 times the cost-effectiveness of GiveWell's top charities. 141 times the cost-effectiveness of broiler welfare campaigns. 51.4 times the cost-effectiveness of cage-free campaigns. 36.9 % of the past cost-effectiveness of the Shrimp Welfare Project (SWP). I guess research on and advocacy for more humane pesticides are way more cost-effective than paying farmers to use them more. For example, I estimate cage-free campaigns improve 408 times as many chicken-years per $ as buying organic instead of barn eggs. So I guess research on and advocacy for more humane pesticides is more cost-effective than SWP has been. I can easily see my estimated cost-effectiveness going up or down by a few orders of magnitude. I guess uncertainty [...] ---Outline:(00:14) Summary(02:16) Calculations(06:30) Discussion(09:15) AcknowledgementsThe original text contained 6 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: January 14th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/mgsiDB2Kkm3mDSWWP/cost-effectiveness-of-paying-farmers-to-use-more-humane --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.