The globalized agriculture and the dialectics of pesticide use in Brazil and in the the European Union: differences, constraints and impacts of Brazilian commodities on the European market

• Grant number: 16/05506-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: August 01, 2016
• End date: March 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Larissa Mies Bombardi
• Grantee: Larissa Mies Bombardi
• Host Investigator: Brian Gerard Garvey
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Strathclyde, Scotland

Abstract

This research has as its the main objective to unravel the mechanisms of globalized agriculture, making a parallel between the Brazilian agriculture and the agriculture in the European Union, particularly in what it is concerned to the use of pesticides.In this sense, considering that Brazil is, today, a major exporter of agricultural commodities and biofuels and that agriculture is carried out by intensive use of pesticides, we seek to understand how EU countries, particularly the United Kingdom, which restricts the use of a number of pesticides permitted in Brazil and that constitute one of the most important destinations of these Brazilian products, receive these products.It is intended also to investigate the use of agrochemicals in European agriculture, and particularly in the UK. We aim to evaluate the role of different EU nations, and specifically of the United Kingdom, in the establishment of Annex I of the Directive 91/414 / EEC (List of Active Ingredients with permitted use in the European Union).Finally, as a result of this research, we seek to map the pesticide use in the European Union and the distribution of commodities and other Brazilian agricultural products, including biofuels, in the countries. (AU)