ABSTRACT
Soil pollution has a direct impact on farmers. In the case of soil contamination by chlordecone in the French West Indies, farmers must adapt their breeding and cropping systems in polluted elds. For example, breeding of free-ranged animals (poultry, cattle, pig, etc.) should be avoided in contaminated soils as soil intake can result in exceeding the regulatory threshold (Bouveret et al. 2013, Jondreville et al. 2014, Jurjanz et al. 2014). For some crops, cultivation in open eld is possible without exceeding the maximum residue limit (MRL, 20 µg kg−1) even in soils contaminated by chlordecone (Clostre et al. 2014, 2015, Dubuisson et al. 2007). But for other crops, such as root vegetables or cucurbits, a risk not to comply with regulation exists (Clostre et al. 2014, 2015).
