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Request for Minimum Standards for Agrochemical Use with cursory analysis on a November 19, *2013 Law Project received from the Rural Society of Argentina by Jack Luft Masters (Degree) Políticas Públicas UNSAM/Georgetown University. This is a formal request for minimum standards of environmental protection law (Ley de Presupuestos Mínimos de Protección Ambiental para el uso de productos fitosanitarios) that will govern the approval, commercialization and use of pesticides in Argentina. Despite being one of the world’s great breadbaskets and a leading exporter of agricultural products, Argentina lacks a national law regulating pesticide use, and whatever legislation might exist at the provincial and municipal level goes unenforced. As pesticides are used widely and heavily throughout the country inadequate legislation and enforcement has placed significant parts of the population at risk of toxic substances. While passing such a law is a necessary first step in the goal of providing a safe environment to all citizens, the passing of a law alone will not guarantee that agricultural workers and the families living in Argentina’s countryside are safe from the health risks posed by pesticides. That will only come with the proper implementation and enforcement of such legislation, which will likely require that the national government lead on the issue. It can lead constructively, coordinating implementation and enforcement with provincial and municipal governments so as to respect the federalism enshrined in Argentina’s constitution, but it must show the way, for provincial and municipal governments have so far failed to protect their citizens from pesticides.” Pesticide use and the accompanying risks vary across the country, depending largely on the agricultural profile and the socio-economic makeup of...
I have both United States and Argentine citizenship and I have been living here for almost 10 years. I am grateful for the medicine I have been receiving free to treat a chronic illness. Owing to my concern over the problems which pesticides generate for the people of Argentina, I would like to be part of the solution along with you. *I have taken the trouble to contract an environmental studies graduate student from the joint programme of San Martín and Georgetown Universities (who submitted his thesis last year on the “Implementation and Application of the Forestry Law of 2007”). According to him, the **Rural Society Bill of November, 2013, is insufficient for the crucial problem of fumigation near populated zones nor does it tackle the systemic tension between the government authorities deriving from the conflicts inherent to the interpretation of Articles 41 and 124 of the National Constitution. Evidently the implementation and application are blocked if the municipal and federal authorities do not understand their roles. Recently I had the good fortune to talk to an ex-official of the ***California Attorney-General’s Office who was in charge of the use of pesticides. In California (the most important agricultural state in the US with markedly progressive politics), all pesticides must be registered and all workers handling them must be trained, pass exams and be registered. California also has an unusual but apparently effective system (shades of Price Watch) whereby farmers are obliged to report to the government any visible infringement on nearby fields — some of them do co-operate with the government and the system has worked well until now,...
La Red Universitaria de Ambiente y Salud (REDUAS) es una coordinación entre profesionales universitarios, académicos, científicos, miembros de equipos de salud humana en sus distintos niveles y demás estudiosos, preocupados por los efectos deletéreos de la salud humana que genera el ambiente degradado a consecuencias de la actividad productiva humana, especialmente cuando esta se da a gran escala y sustentada en una visión extractivista.Link a la página...
