Brazil: Pesticide Bill Threatens Health, Livelihoods

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Herbicide is sprayed on a soybean field in the Cerrado plains near Campo Verde, Mato Grosso state, western Brazil. © 2011 Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images Lawmakers in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, an industrial agriculture hub, are considering a bill that would drastically reduce buffer zones meant to limit pesticide exposure.Mato Grosso’s buffer zone bill is part of a worrying trend of deregulation of pesticides in Brazil, underscoring the dangerous influence of agribusiness over policymaking.Mato Grosso policymakers should expand…

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