"COP-7 held in 2015 requested the Rotterdam Convention Secretariat to further pursue the work on alternatives to chemicals newly listed or under discussion for listing to Annex III. Within a European Commission project funding was provided to focus on Strengthening the Capacity of Pacific Island countries on alternatives to newly...

"本手册旨在向决策者说明农民不用硫丹杀 虫剂来管理咖啡害虫的成功经验。该经验 表明, 在大型农业企业和小型家庭农场出 于安全逐步淘汰高毒农药(HHPs)并采用 具有成本效益的替代方案是完全可能的。 该调查结果也可以作为在《巴塞尔、鹿特 丹和斯德哥尔摩公约》(BRS)背景下培训 政府、农民和其他利益相关者如何提高化 学物质管理、促进可持续农业的有效通用 课程."

Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) have been established to help the hundreds of smallholder farmers in India who are unable to gain cost-prohibitive certifications for organic farming. These systems allow access to a fair and transparent market system and grant farmers a direct stake holding in the supply chain of clean...

Mongolia is located in Central Asia in between Russia and China. Only 1% of the arable land in Mongolia is cultivated with crops. The agriculture sector therefore remains heavily focused on nomadic animal husbandry with 75% of the land allocated to pasture, and cropping only employing 3% of the population. Dundgobi...

This policy brief discusses ways to scale up agroecological approaches and suggests actionable advice tailored for various stakeholders, including policy-makers, private sector, financial partners, research and development community and civil society. The brief focuses on how to design scaling up initiatives and provides success as well as failure stories.

Rocrops is a smallholder farm established in 1990 in Trinidad. It is owned and managed by the husband and wife Ramgopaul and Beena Roop. The Rocrops farm is comprised of 1.29 ha. (3ac) of former degraded and acidic (3.5pH) sugar cane lands. The development of the farm has emphasized a...