Agrotoxics and chemical colonialism
by Larissa Mies Bombardi
Description
Pesticides hit women, children, indigenous people and peasants living around commodity crops much harder, but they are part of the daily lives of the entire population, as they are present in the water and food of more and more people. Brazil is the world's largest consumer of these substances, with more than 700,000 tons per year. This book compiles alarming data that allows us to begin to understand the seriousness of the problem represented by the massive use of herbicides, pesticides and fungicides for human health and the environment, a direct consequence of the globalization of agriculture, the concentration of Brazilian land and the omnipresence of agribusiness in the country. From the reading, it emerges that agricultural production is no longer synonymous with food production, and that the way out lies in agroecology.
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Author Biography
Larissa Mies Bombardi is a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of São Paulo (USP). She currently lives in Europe and does research at the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) in Paris, France, under the Programme national d'accueil en urgence des scientifiques et des artistes en exil (Pause). She is a specialist on the subject of pesticide use, with dozens of lectures, articles and interviews published in Brazilian and international journals and media. She is the author of the atlases A Geography of Agrotoxins Use in Brazil and its Relations to the European Union (2019) and Geography of Asymmetry: The Vicious Cycle of Pesticides and Colonialism in the Commercial Relationship between Mercosur and the European Union (2021). She is a member of the National Forum to Combat the Impacts of Pesticides in Brazil, a member of the international organization Justice Pesticide and a guest researcher at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Germany.
Editora Elefante
Editora Elefante was founded in May 2011 and publishes titles mainly in the areas of sociology, anthropology, feminism, Latin American studies, anti-racism, and political essays.
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- Publisher Elefante
- Orginal LanguagePortuguese
- ISBN/Identifier 9786560080225
- Publication Country or regionBrazil
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 40 BRL
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleAgrotóxicos e colonialismo químico
- Original Language AuthorsLarissa Mies Bombardi
- Edition1.0
- Dimensions13x18 cm
- IllustrationYes
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