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(<\/span>Beyond Pesticides<\/span><\/i>, December 22, 2022) International health and environmental groups<\/span> submitted an urgent letter to\u00a0 the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)<\/span><\/b><\/a> late last month demanding <\/span>\u201c<\/span><\/b>greater transparency and accountability<\/span><\/b>\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/a> through termination of the agency\u2019s two-year-old partnership with CropLife International (CLI), a global trade association representing the world\u2019s biggest pesticide manufacturers. Addressed to FAO Deputy Director Beth Bechdol ahead of <\/span>FAO Council 171 session in Rome<\/span><\/b><\/a> and<\/span> COP15<\/span><\/b><\/a>,<\/span><\/b> the letter outlines a unique opportunity for the organization to lead the phaseout of fossil-fuel based food systems and use of agrochemicals while upholding the agency\u2019s responsibility to act in response to conflicts of interest and human rights violations.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The original<\/span> Letter of Intent (LOI),<\/span><\/b><\/a> signed between CLI President and CEO Guilia Di Tommaso and FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu in October 2020, framed the partnership as a means to ensure humanity\u2019s freedom from hunger while advancing <\/span>Sustainable Development Goals<\/span><\/b><\/a>. However, according to PAN Europe Policy Officer Manon Rouby, \u201cWhile the private sector has been working with FAO for years, this official agreement with CropLife directly threatens FAO\u2019s work on supporting farmers in the transition towards agroecology, while reducing the harms of synthetic pesticides worldwide. With CropLife members being the largest agrichemical companies in the world, this association is unacceptable and a direct threat to human rights. We once again urge the FAO to rescind this agreement.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span> original letter\u2019s co-authors, <\/span>\u202f200,000 individuals from over 107 countries<\/span><\/b><\/a>, over<\/span>\u202f<\/span>430 civil society and Indigenous Peoples organizations<\/span><\/b><\/a>, nearly 300<\/span>\u202facademics and scientists<\/span><\/b><\/a>, and nearly 50<\/span>\u202f<\/span>philanthropic groups<\/span><\/b><\/a>, as well as the <\/span>Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food<\/span><\/b><\/a>, raised concerns in a report addressed in 49th session of the UN Human Rights Council. While the backlash prevented the LOI from moving forward into a more formal Memorandum of Understanding earlier this year, as of today\u2019s publication, the agreement<\/span> remains in place without a set expiration date<\/span><\/b><\/a>, fundamentally undermining the agency\u2019s support for alternatives to generate ecologically-based agrifood systems without toxic pesticides.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With<\/span> 11 subsidiary national associations<\/span><\/b><\/a> and six member companies (BASF, Bayer, Corteva, FMC, Sumitomo Chemical, and Syngenta), CLI has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. While claiming to champion the role of agricultural innovation in crop protection to advance sustainable agriculture, instead, the pesticide industry is leveraging \u201cagricultural innovation and digital technology\u201d to expand market opportunities and increase profits in the Global South. Private sector investments are actively being facilitated through the FAO\u2019s Hand-In-Hand Initiative; for example, in October 2020, the Director General actively appealed to CropLife for investments in low and middle-income countries in his speech to the CLI Board of Directors.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While CLI has not made any direct financial contributions to FAO since 2011, member companies outsized political and economic influence on pesticide-related policies, alongside global export and distribution, is bearing fruit in lucrative markets like Nigeria.\u202fBetween 2015 and 2019, the country\u2019s <\/span>National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC)<\/span><\/b><\/a> registered approximately 822 pesticides, of which 63% are classified as highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) with <\/span>glyphosate<\/span><\/b><\/a> holding the highest share of imports (67.4 and 53.4 percent in kilograms and liters respectively). Across all 46 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, FAO estimates that the use of pesticides increased by 150% between 2006 and 2019, attaining over 100,000 tons per year. In addition to highly hazardous pesticide (HHP) sales being higher in the region, exponential impacts on health and environment reveal a vulnerability exploited by the partnership in the Global South. According to <\/span>a survey by the Small-Scale Women Farmers Organization of Nigeria and Alliance for Action on Pesticides (AAPN)<\/span><\/b><\/a> in Nigeria, 80 percent of pesticides used by women in four Northern Central states (Nasarawa, Benue, Plateau, and Abuja) are highly toxic to humans and require additional regulation.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While <\/span>the increased level of use has resulted in negative health, environmental and economic consequences<\/span><\/b><\/a> in-country and around the world, FAO continues to expand private partnerships in <\/span>hosting regional workshops<\/span><\/b><\/a> this year on the \u201cproper management of pesticides\u201d in the Middle East and North Africa region, with over a dozen countries participating in<\/span> Jordan despite obstacles<\/span><\/b><\/a> to implementation such as insufficient staffing, lack of an adequate registration system, limited expertise, lack of risk assessment measures, and limited access to information.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Considering these negative impacts surrounding CSI\u2019s expanding sphere of influence, the group\u2019s urgent letter strongly urges FAO to prevent CLI and its member companies from attaining permanent observer status, as such a move would \u201cfurther the conflict of interest that exists between CLI and FAO, grant even greater privileges to the pesticide industry, and blur the areas of collaboration that already lack transparency.\u201d Following the <\/span>precedent pioneered by UN Women<\/span><\/b><\/a>, which ends its Memorandum of Understanding with investment firm BlackRock after receiving feedback from civil society, FAO has reached a turning point.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As an original signatory to the PAN UK June 9<\/span><\/b>th<\/span><\/b> letter, Beyond Pesticides<\/span><\/b><\/a> echoes PAN UK in that it is imperative to \u201cprioritize people-led agroecology as an innovative climate resilience solution and ensure that climate and science strategies do not give precedence to pesticide and fertilizer products, nor private sector entities affiliated with human rights violations or environmental destruction.\u201d CSI\u2019s fundamental objective is the maximizing of toxic pesticide sales and runs counter to reducing reliance. As Beyond Pesticides has constantly reiterated that <\/span>\u201csustainable\u201d pesticide use or incremental reductions <\/span><\/b>will <\/span><\/b>not prevent a variety of downstream impacts<\/span><\/b> and existential crises<\/span><\/b>.<\/span><\/b><\/a> Pesticides are damaging pollinator populations, adding to the human chemical body burden, catalyzing disease processes, launching trophic cascades, degrading agricultural soils, and so much more.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As <\/span>FAO<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u202faims to \u201cachieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives\u201d,\u202f<\/span>truly sustainable, organic production<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u202fwith a focus on <\/span>regenerative practices<\/span><\/b><\/a> must lead the way. It is only through agricultural and other land management practices that eliminate petrochemical pesticides and fertilizers, and organic production, on a global scale from the United Nations to local communities in the Global South at home, that we stand a chance of making sustainable change in the long run for ourselves, our children, and the world at large.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Please consider helping Beyond Pesticides advocate for the transition to organic regenerative agriculture, and other benign land management approaches. <\/span>You can join\/contribute<\/span><\/a>, take up the issue in your local community, organize with others for state-level action, and more; let us know if we can help: info@BeyondPesticides.org or 202.543.5450. <\/p>\n

<\/span>Signatories of the late November letter included: Keith Tyrell, Chair, Pesticide Action Network International; Million Belay, Coordinator, <\/span><\/i>Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA);<\/span><\/i><\/a> David Azoulay, Environmental Health Program Director, <\/span><\/i>Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL);<\/span><\/i><\/a> Sof\u00eda Monsalve, Secretary General, <\/span><\/i>FIAN International;<\/span><\/i><\/a> Kirtana Chandrasekaran and Mart\u00edn Drago, Food Sovereignty Program Coordinators, <\/span><\/i>Friends of the Earth International;<\/span><\/i><\/a> Sophia Murphy, Executive Director, <\/span><\/i>Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP);<\/span><\/i><\/a> Andrea Carmen, Executive Director, <\/span><\/i>International Indian Treaty Council (IITC);<\/span><\/i><\/a> Pam Miller and Tadesse Amera, Co-Chairs, <\/span><\/i>International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN);<\/span><\/i><\/a> Sue Longley, General Secretary, <\/span><\/i>International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF);<\/span><\/i><\/a> Laurent Gaberell and Carla Hoinkes, Agriculture and Food Experts, Public Eye; and Chee Yoke Ling, Executive Director, <\/span><\/i>Third World Network<\/span><\/i><\/a>.<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: <\/span>Letter to UN FAO Deputy Director<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Beyond Pesticides, December 22, 2022) International health and environmental groups submitted an urgent letter to\u00a0 the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) late last month demanding \u201cgreater transparency and accountability\u201d through termination of the agency\u2019s two-year-old partnership with CropLife International (CLI), a global trade association representing the world\u2019s biggest pesticide manufacturers. 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