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Zara Iqbal

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The headline already names the missing anchor. Once you frame it as 46% poisoned instead of 433m cases in south Asia you never have to price whether the exposure stopped being occupational or just whoever still needs cotton harvest labour without protective equipment that costs more than the daily wage in Burkina Faso.

Using publicly available data from 2006-2023, the study found there to be an estimated 402-433m cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning of farmers and farm workers every year. Based on a worldwide farming population of 934 million, this means approximately 46% of farmers are being poisoned every year.
Almost half of world’s farmers poisoned by pesticides every year, experts findtheguardian.com
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