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The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.

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Pesticide exports

30/11/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - The Food Chain, Pesticide exports

Should the global rules governing pesticide sales be tougher?

Many countries allow the manufacture and export of pesticides that are banned for use in their own countries.   

Recently France and Belgium have introduced laws preventing the export of such agrochemicals if their use is banned in the European Union. The European Commission is currently considering whether to introduce similar laws. 

Grace Livingstone reports from Paraguay where some small farmers living near soya plantations say heavy pesticide spraying is affecting their health and livelihoods. 

We hear from the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Toxics, Marcos Orellana, who says that global pesticide regulations should be tougher.    

And we speak to Emily Rees of CropLife International, which represents the agrochemical industry, who says different climates and soil conditions require different pesticides. 

Produced and presented by Grace Livingstone.  

(Image: a tractor spraying soybean crops. Credit: Getty Images/BBC)

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