Poison for sale — the pesticides banned in EU in use in Kenya

Outside Kagio, a small town in central Kenya, Joshua Murimi Wanjohi stands at the edge of his tomato field and watches one of his farm workers stirring chemicals into a blue plastic barrel: the fungicide Topstar from a Chinese manufacturer, which he uses alternately with the insecticide Belt from the German company Bayer.

Both contain highly hazardous ingredients whose approval has not been renewed in the EU.

The mixture starts to foam. The worker fills the liquid into a portabl...