Pesticide use around world almost doubles since 1990, report finds
▻https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/18/pesticide-use-around-world-almost-doubles-since-1990-report-finds
Global #pesticide use has soared by 80% since 1990, with the world market set to hit $130bn next year, according to a new Pesticide Atlas.
But pesticides are also responsible for an estimated 11,000 human fatalities and the poisoning of 385 million people every year, the report finds.
[...] A quarter of all pesticides are sold in the #EU, which is also the world’s top exporter of crop protection products. However, EU laws currently allow the export of toxic weedkillers banned on the continent to developing countries with weaker regulations.
[...] Of the 385m pesticide poisoning cases logged in the atlas, 255m were in Asia and more than 100m in Africa, but just 1.6m were in Europe.