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Agrotoxics and chemical colonialism
by Larissa Mies Bombardi
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.
