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 then exported back to the EU, new research has confirmed.

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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.