Pesticides cause 400 million farmer poisoning cases a year
Researchers say annual pesticide poisoning affects about 46% of the world’s 934 million farmers and farmworkers, underscoring weak monitoring and reporting systems.
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Study: Almost half the world’s farmers are poisoned by pesticides each year
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Almost half of the world’s farmers are poisoned by pesticides every single year, a study has found. Using publicly available data from 2006-2023, the study, which was commissioned by Pesticide Action Network, found there to be an estimated 402 million to 433 million cases […]
A new study describes the health consequences of worldwide pesticide use: Almost one in two agricultural workers suffers from acute poisoning every year.Pesticides are part of daily work for millions of people employed in agriculture – and for many of them, the chemicals used have serious health consequences.This is the result of a new international study. According to this study, between 402 and 433 million farmers and agricultural workers worl…
Pesticide poisoning reaches between 402 and 433 million unintentioned acute cases each year and causes about 11,000 deaths, while 46% of the world's agricultural population would suffer an annual episode.
Almost every second agricultural worker in the world suffers from acute pesticide poisoning at least once a year, according to a new international study. Researchers estimate that this translates into up to 433 million poisoning cases per year, while approximately 11,000 people die annually from exposure to pesticides.
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