NEONICOTINOID BAN HITS FARMERS & ENVIRONMENT
New HFFA study calculates costs for oilseed rape industry in EU & implications worldwide
MISSING HARVEST
912,000 tons OSR
UPSTREAM & DOWNSTREAM INDUSTRY LOSSES AROUND 360 MILLION
REVENUE LOSSES FOR OSR FARMERS ALMOST 400 MILLION
900 mio ALMOST
= ALMOST THE PRODUCTION OF ROMANIA
533,000 hectares ADDITIONAL LAND REQUIRED
= SIZE OF THE TERRITORY OF CYPRUS BIODIVERSITY LOSSES OF FLORA AND FAUNA IN THIRD COUNTRIES
= SLASHING AND BURNING 333,000 HECTARES INDONESIAN RAINFOREST
Calculated by use of the National Biodiversity Index (NBI)2
ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION COSTS FOR FARMERS CLOSE TO 120 MILLION
ECONOMIC LOSSES = DIRECT CAP PAYMENTS TO DENMARK1 ADDITIONAL GHG EMISSIONS
80.2 million tons CO2
= GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION OF AUSTRIA FOR ONE YEAR ADDITIONAL WATER CONSUMPTION
1.3 billion m3
= 2.3 TIMES THE VOLUME OF THE SYDNEY HARBOR
Source: HFFA Research Paper 01/2017 "Banning neonicotinoids in the European Union: An ex-post assessment of economic and environmental costs". The European Crop Protection Association (ECPA), the European Seed Association (ESA), and the European Farmers and European Agri-Cooperatives (Copa and Cogeca) support this new scientific evidence, which is consistent with findings and conclusions of other studies. This research paper was financed by Bayer Division Crop Science and Syngenta. The data cited on missing harvest, economic losses and water consumption refer to annual impacts; the others are one-time impacts related to land conversion. 1 CAP Direct Payments to farmers in Denmark in Financial Year 2014 http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/cap-funding/beneficiaries/direct-aid/pdf/annex1-2014_en.pdf 2 CBD (Convention on Biological Diversity), 2014: Global Biodiversity Outlook 4. Montreal: CBD.