Zwitserland houdt vandaag een nationaal referendum over een verbod op kunstmatige bestrijdingsmiddelen. Het Alpenland zou zo het eerste land in Europa kunnen worden dat komaf maakt met pesticiden.
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Switzerland is set to vote on whether to ban artificial pesticides in agriculture, food production and the maintenance of public spaces like gardens and parks.
A referendum will take place on 13 June following a campaign ‘For a Switzerland without artificial pesticides’, run by an independent group of citizens, including scientists, doctors, and growers, to highlight the risk to human health, soil fertility and biodiversity.
It was backed recently by Switzerland’s association for small farmers, which said it would support the ban in the vote later this month. Around 15 per cent of Switzerland’s farms are already run organically, without the use of artificial pesticides, and organic food accounts for around 10 per cent of all sales, compared to two per cent in the UK.