Kenya Pesticide Atlas Launch | Kärl Bär, Chairman, Committee on Food & Agriculture, German Bundestag
Channel: Hbs Nairobi
Date: 2022-11-04

The global pesticide market has almost doubled in the last 20 years. By 2023, the total value of all pesticides used is expected to reach nearly 130.7 billion US dollars. The EU is the top exporting region, increasingly selling toxic pesticides to low- and middle-income countries where environmental, health and safety regulations are often the weakest. Over the last five years pesticide imports into Africa have increased significantly and yet the African agrochemical market accounts for only 2 to 4 percent of the global usage. Pesticide sales to the continent are increasingly the focus of agrochemical companies which makes smallholder farmers and the wider public increasingly vulnerable to the risks associated with pesticides use and misuse.   

Kärl Bär is the Chairman of the Committee on Food and Agriculture, German Bundestag.

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