Category Farmworkers

Farmworkers

SAPToA to brief Parliament on Agrotoxins

UPDATE: Watch a recording of the Parliamentary Briefing below. Business Day covered the briefing, highlighting Judge Navi Pillay’s call for the Department of Agriculture to “urgently start phasing out the use of toxic chemicals, beginning with HHPs. She said it was…

SAPToA
May 20, 2025

Agrotoxins, Farmworkers, Public Health, Social Justice

Farm workers and farm dwellers on the frontlines of exposure to and risk from HHPs

Farm workers are exposed to dangerous pesticides daily, often the most severe class – highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs). While men often do the spraying, women farmworkers are also vulnerable to pesticide exposure, which occurs in multiple ways, including when pesticides…

SAPToA
February 4, 2025