Publisher's Synopsis
"Throughout rural Brazil, ordinary people face toxic exposures when pesticide spray drifts off target crops during application, or when pesticides vaporize and drift to adjacent areas in the days after spraying. [This report] documents cases of acute poisoning from presticide drift across seven sites, including farming communities, indigenous communities, quilombos (Afro-Brazilian communities) and rural schools. ... Brazil's response to pesticide drift is failing. While a Ministry of Agriculture regulation prohibits aerial sprayig within 500 meters of inhabited sites, this buffer zone is often ignored in practice. There is no corresponding national regulation delimiting ground spraying. ... Brazil urgently needs to introduce measures to limit pesticide exposure harmful to human. health."--Back cover.
