The increasing global trade of counterfeiting is finding its way into the agrichemical industry. This increment not only affects a country’s economic growth but also human health, food safety and the environment. The trade of counterfeit pesticides provides a worrying trend, posing great threats to man’s survival that depends on agriculture.

This baseline study intends to highlight the negative effects counterfeit pesticides have on the environment and to human health and safety. It also determines the most common method(s) used when counterfeiting pesticides, possible solutions and strategies that can be adopted to fight this vice.

The key findings indicate that counterfeit pesticides do actually have dire consequences to the environment, food security and to human health. Thus more needs to be done to close legislative loopholes. It is also imperative for corporations and their countermeasure policy makers to take a firm stand on producers and distributors of counterfeit pesticides.