International Day of Action for Life and against Agrotoxics
3 December 2024 - 31 January 2025
The use of agrotoxics in the world continues to be a practice encouraged by agribusiness. In recent years, global use reached 3.54 million tons, 4% more than in 2020 and twice as much as in 1990. Asia is still the largest consumer of pesticides, accounting for more than 50% of the global total. The Americas are in second place, with a steady increase in the use of these chemicals since 1990.
The big business of the agrotoxics market is estimated at 253,000 million United States dollars in 2024. The largest producers of agrotoxics include companies such as Monsanto-Bayer, DowDupond, Syngenta-ChemChina, BASF and Corteva, which dominate global sales.
Faced with this situation, we La Via Campesina promotes peasant agroecology as a model of healthy food production, which guarantees Food Sovereignty and prioritizes the defense of life, for the survival of our humanity and the planet.