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EU-based companies continue to export thousands of tonnes of banned pesticides to Kenya and other countries, even though the food it helps produce is often exported back to the EU, new research has confirmed.
A report published on Thursday (6 November) by Swedwatch, a Swedish NGO, and the Kenya Organic Agriculture Network (Koan) found that over 120,000 tonnes of pesticides that are banned in the EU are sold abroad.
It documents the effects of these pesticides, many of which contain known carcinogens, on Kenyan farm workers and communities, including breathing problems, fatal poisonings and rising cancer rates in agricultural regions.
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I wonder how the quality of produce is negatively affected. Pesticide residues whether legal or illegal still end up being part of the produce and can’t be healthy for you.
This is the result of strong looking political decisions weakened by lobbyism. I wonder what reaction the EU apparatus will come up with. “Surprised Pikachu” is my guess.
Are those pesticides bad or are we protecting the European pesticide market from selling cheap pesticides?
It documents the effects of these pesticides, many of which contain known carcinogens, on Kenyan farm workers and communities, including breathing problems, fatal poisonings and rising cancer rates in agricultural regions.
They are bad. No reason to believe that this would not happen in the EU if allowed.
It documents the effects of these pesticides, many of which contain known carcinogens, on Kenyan farm workers and communities, including breathing problems, fatal poisonings and rising cancer rates in agricultural regions.
“The influx of pesticides banned in the EU directly undermines the health of Kenyans, damages the environment, and exposes a critical failure in regulatory bodies that should be protecting public safety,” said Eustace Gacanja, chief executive officer at Koan.
“If the European Union and Britain are allowing cancer-causing pesticides to be manufactured in their own countries, exclusively to be exported to African countries, that’s not an act of good faith,” Gladys Boss Shollei, the deputy speaker of Kenya’s National Assembly, told MEPs during a joint meeting between the European parliament and African lawmakers back in 2023.
