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Home Pesticides, land and money: the discussion that comes before the shelf Pesticides, land and money: the discussion that comes before the shelf April , Published in:Interview , Society Geographer Larissa Mies Bombardi talks about the legislation that regulates these products in Brazil and defends agriculture without pesticides Geographer Larissa Mies Bombardi talks about the legislation that regulates these products in Brazil and defends agriculture without pesticides Brazil occupies first place on the list of countries that consume the most pesticides. The massive use of these products is explained by an economy that exports commodities on a large scale, especially soybeans, and an agribusiness model based on large tracts of land producing few crops. Over the last five years, geographer Larissa Mies Bombardi has dedicated herself to studying the impact of the use of pesticides in the country, especially by mapping cases of poisoning – according to the professor, from to , , cases of death from pesticide poisoning.
Coordinator of the Agricultural Geography Laboratory at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH) at USP, Larissa comments on the Bill being processed in the Chamber that concentrates control over the registration of pesticides in the Ministry of Agriculture, a responsibility that is now shared with other bodies of the Ministry of Health and the Environment. The researcher also talks ab Whatsapp Number List out how recent cases of microcephaly associated with the Zika virus could end up contributing to the approval of measures that authorize the spraying of urban areas with pesticides to combat mosquitoes. Larissa Mies Bombardi | Photo: Cecília Bastos Larissa Mies Bombardi | Photo: Cecília Bastos What is the focus of your research on the use of pesticides in Brazil? Larissa Bombardi: My area of expertise is agrarian geography, so I have been discussing a bigger issue than pesticides as an element of public health. It involves the agrarian issue, the role of agriculture in the Brazilian economy. To give you an idea, our export agenda today has turned upside down from what it was at the end of the s and beginning of the s.
We were, during the dictatorship, in a process in which basic products had less importance in Brazilian exports than than industrialized ones. Then, in , , there was a milestone because this began to reverse and this process continued until the beginning of the s, when there was an inflection in the curves and we began to export many more basic products than industrialized ones. The basics are not only agricultural products, they also include iron ore, oil and other commodities , but soy is the main product exported by Brazil. So talking about pesticides is not restricted to the scope of agriculture, but something much larger, because it has to do with Brazil's insertion model in what we call a globalized economy. It's a choice, it's a role that Brazil plays in the world. We are the world's largest exporter of sugar, meat, cattle, chicken meat, tobacco, oranges, coffee... this monoculture package, on a large scale, demands a lot of agrochemicals. Brazil today consumes a fifth of the pesticides used in the world. What I have done is mapped the use and cases of pesticide poisoning to understand what is behind these numbers, and this has a direct relationship with the economic model that the country has adopted.
Coordinator of the Agricultural Geography Laboratory at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH) at USP, Larissa comments on the Bill being processed in the Chamber that concentrates control over the registration of pesticides in the Ministry of Agriculture, a responsibility that is now shared with other bodies of the Ministry of Health and the Environment. The researcher also talks ab Whatsapp Number List out how recent cases of microcephaly associated with the Zika virus could end up contributing to the approval of measures that authorize the spraying of urban areas with pesticides to combat mosquitoes. Larissa Mies Bombardi | Photo: Cecília Bastos Larissa Mies Bombardi | Photo: Cecília Bastos What is the focus of your research on the use of pesticides in Brazil? Larissa Bombardi: My area of expertise is agrarian geography, so I have been discussing a bigger issue than pesticides as an element of public health. It involves the agrarian issue, the role of agriculture in the Brazilian economy. To give you an idea, our export agenda today has turned upside down from what it was at the end of the s and beginning of the s.
We were, during the dictatorship, in a process in which basic products had less importance in Brazilian exports than than industrialized ones. Then, in , , there was a milestone because this began to reverse and this process continued until the beginning of the s, when there was an inflection in the curves and we began to export many more basic products than industrialized ones. The basics are not only agricultural products, they also include iron ore, oil and other commodities , but soy is the main product exported by Brazil. So talking about pesticides is not restricted to the scope of agriculture, but something much larger, because it has to do with Brazil's insertion model in what we call a globalized economy. It's a choice, it's a role that Brazil plays in the world. We are the world's largest exporter of sugar, meat, cattle, chicken meat, tobacco, oranges, coffee... this monoculture package, on a large scale, demands a lot of agrochemicals. Brazil today consumes a fifth of the pesticides used in the world. What I have done is mapped the use and cases of pesticide poisoning to understand what is behind these numbers, and this has a direct relationship with the economic model that the country has adopted.