Abstract
Brazilian legislative proposal n. 6,299/2002, addressing pesticide regulation, represents an attempt to loosen and weaken the regulation of these substances, threatening the rights to food and a healthy environment as enshrined in the Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil. This article reviews the bill and its more troublesome provisions through the lenses of food security and nutrition as well as national environmental law principles and provisions. Within this background, the paper concludes that Bill n. 6,299/2002 works against previously achieved progress in providing alternative policy pathways for sustainable agriculture in Brazil. It clashes with environmental law principles, neglecting precaution and prevention, representing a regression in terms of protection levels, while undermining human rights to food and a healthy environment. The methodology includes a literature and documentary review, along with inductive reasoning.
Highlights
Kamila Pope & Marina Demaria Venâncio & Michelle Bonatti & Stefan SieberWith the emergence of the Anthropocene,5 an era in which humankind is the driving force shaping the Earth’s future, socio-environmental problems have become increasingly interconnected, transboundary, and complex
The criteria to select the amendments analysed by this paper are (i) their application to pesticides used for agriculture purposes, as well as (ii) their potential to transgress the multidimensional notion of food security and environmental law principles, namely prevention, precautionary; and non-regression principles
Brazil has a recognized potential to develop sustainable agriculture, at all scales, with celebrated policies like the National Policy for Agroecology and Organic Production (PNAPO; acronym based on Portuguese name)
Summary
With the emergence of the Anthropocene, an era in which humankind is the driving force shaping the Earth’s future, socio-environmental problems have become increasingly interconnected, transboundary, and complex (see CRUTZEN, 2006; BECK, 2008; LECK et al, 2015). 6,299/2002 and its provisions related to pesticides for agricultural purposes, adopting as its conceptual framework the notions of food security and nutrition as well as national environmental law principles, namely the prevention, precautionary, and non-regression principles Within this scenario, the first section provides background on pesticide usage in Brazil, outlining examples of the side-effects of these chemicals on human health and contextualising the issue. The criteria to select the amendments analysed by this paper are (i) their application to pesticides used for agriculture purposes, as well as (ii) their potential to transgress the multidimensional notion of food security and environmental law principles, namely prevention, precautionary; and non-regression principles This methodological approach is grounded by a literature and documentary review, adopting inductive reasoning
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