The politics of glyphosate regulation: lessons from Sri Lanka's short-lived ban.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Glyphosate is the world's most used herbicide and a central component of modern industrial agriculture. It has also been linked to a variety of negative health and environmental effects. For instance, the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate as "probably carcinogenic to humans" in 2015. This has motivated widespread political demands for stricter glyphosate regulation but so far few governments have followed through.

Methods

We conduct a case study of Sri Lanka, which in 2015 became the first and so far only country in the world to adopt and implement a complete glyphosate ban. But this ban proved to be short-lived, as it was partially reversed in 2018 (and later fully revoked in 2022). To explain the political causes of Sri Lanka's pi

SUBMITTER: Dorlach T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10644602 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature