This article was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

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Almost half of the world’s farmers are poisoned by pesticides every single year, a study has found.

Using publicly available data from 2006 to 2023, the study, which was commissioned by Pesticide Action Network, found there to be an estimated 402 to 433 million 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 percent of farmers are being poisoned every year.…