This chapter analyzes environmental regulations on agricultural production in Argentina, specifically regarding the use of GMOs and agrochemicals. Chapter 7 explores environmental regulation—biosafety for GM crops and agrochemical management—as another domain of distributive conflict, highlighting how weak and under‑enforced rules benefit the export‑oriented agricultural chain while imposing costs on local communities and ecosystems. It describes Argentina’s permissive GMO approval system, the absence of a comprehensive biosafety or agrochemicals law, and the reliance on substantial‑equivalence criteria, alongside rapidly rising glyphosate use and the patchwork of provincial court rulings and municipal ordinances that have tried to curb spraying in response to health concerns. The chapter argues that because input suppliers, producers, and exporters share a strong interest in low‑cost environmental regulation—and the state itself depends on the associated exports and fiscal resources—the structural power of the chain as a whole, combined with the instrumental influence of biotechnology and agrochemical firms, has produced flexible regulations that leave deforestation, pollution, and public‑health impacts largely unaddressed despite pockets of grassroots resistance and judicial activism.

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Environmental Regulations: GMOs and Agrochemicals

  • Juan O’Farrell

摘要

This chapter analyzes environmental regulations on agricultural production in Argentina, specifically regarding the use of GMOs and agrochemicals. Chapter 7 explores environmental regulation—biosafety for GM crops and agrochemical management—as another domain of distributive conflict, highlighting how weak and under‑enforced rules benefit the export‑oriented agricultural chain while imposing costs on local communities and ecosystems. It describes Argentina’s permissive GMO approval system, the absence of a comprehensive biosafety or agrochemicals law, and the reliance on substantial‑equivalence criteria, alongside rapidly rising glyphosate use and the patchwork of provincial court rulings and municipal ordinances that have tried to curb spraying in response to health concerns. The chapter argues that because input suppliers, producers, and exporters share a strong interest in low‑cost environmental regulation—and the state itself depends on the associated exports and fiscal resources—the structural power of the chain as a whole, combined with the instrumental influence of biotechnology and agrochemical firms, has produced flexible regulations that leave deforestation, pollution, and public‑health impacts largely unaddressed despite pockets of grassroots resistance and judicial activism.