O uso de agrotóxicos no Brasil ante o direito ao meio ambiente

Abstract

It is proposed to investigate the use of pesticides in Brazil in order to find out whether it consists in violation of the fundamental right to ecologically balanced environment. Therefore, legislative, bibliographical, historical and documentary researches were conducted. Initially, the work addresses the fundamental rights in general, including its conceptual definition, characteristics, history and dimensions, then it explored specifically the right to environment. After that, the research seeks to understand what pesticides are and to examine its historical development, typology and terminology. The analysis evaluates the motives that have made Brazil the world's largest consumer of pesticides, including the historical context in which their legislation was prepared along with comments about relevant aspects of such statute. Further, the study portrays cases in which scientific researches pointed pesticides as determinant of environmental damage by describing the consequences of such damage. Finally, the study reveals that the right to environment remains violated by how pesticides have been used in the Country, which demonstrates the urge to rethink the mode of production adopted and, if the transition to the ideal model, which is agroecology, is not achievable, it’s imperative to effectively monitor compliance with the law, always guided by the precautionary principle.