South African farm workers demand an end to Europe’s toxic pesticide exports - Africa Sustainability Matters

More than a thousand people protested this Saturday, April 5, in the streets of Paris against the use of pesticides in agriculture and environmental regressions. Responding to the call of environmental NGOs, scientists and elected officials, the procession went from the museum of Natural History to the Ministry of Health to signify the devastating impact of these chemicals on the health of the environment and humans.

The rally was held on Saturday, while the Assembly is scheduled to consider at the end of May a law passed in the Senate, under pressure from a part of the agricultural world.

This gathering comes at a time when the Assembly is due to consider at the end of May a law that aims to re-authorize acetamiprid, an insecticide of the neonicotinoid family.

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South African farm workers demand an end to Europe’s toxic pesticide exports - Africa Sustainability Matters

In the vineyards of South Africa’s Western Cape—where some of the world’s finest wines are grown—farm workers are demanding justice. Not just economic justice, but justice for their health, their communities, and their basic human rights. For decades, they have lived under the shadow of pesticides banned in the European Union for being too dangerous, […]

In the face of increased competition for low-cost tomatoes from abroad, some cooperatives, such as Bretonne Saveol, are attempting strategies to stand out, including this label "Cultivated without pesticides!". Reportage in Finistère, near Brest.