Opening ceremony of a new store annex in Vakhsh special landfill

Dushanbe (Tajikistan), 08/04/2023

On 8 April 2023, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Committee for Environmental Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan (CEP) officially opened a new warehouse for the storage of obsolete pesticides. The store annex was built in a framework of the GEF/FAO project "Lifecycle Management of Pesticides and Disposal of POPs Pesticides in C...

14th International HCH & Pesticides Forum

Zaragoza (Spain), Hybrid Event, 22/02/2023 - 24/02/2023

The 14^th International HCH and pesticide forum will be held between 21-24 February 2023 in Zaragoza, Spain. The Forum discusses the state of the art on POPs elimination 31 years after the first Forum in Zwolle, the Netherlands. The discussions on POPs elimination in the Forum are centered on two critical questions: What are the “Lessons learned” and what is the “Way forward” in a...

Knowledge and Experience Sharing visit to Republic of Türkiye

Ankara (Türkiye), 02/01/2023 - 07/01/2023

Study tour of Azerbaijan delegation to Türkiye to learn experience in pesticide lifecycle management within the frame work of "Lifecycle Management of Pesticides and Disposal of POPs Pesticides in Central Asian countries and Türkiye" Project.

Webinar: Addressing Highly Hazardous pesticides and promoting soil remediation

Virtual Event, 06/12/2022

As soils provide most of our food and are central to our planet’s life-support system. Without healthy soils, we cannot sustain healthy lives. It is necessary to good care of soils and to be aware of the consequences of our agricultural activities, such as pesticide and Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) use, on our soil systems in order to protect our precious resource. In order to raise aw...

6th International Biocidal Congress 17-20 November 2022, Antalya, Türkiye

Antalya (Türkiye), 17/11/2022 - 20/11/2022

The 6th International Biocidal Congress will be held in Antalya between November 17-20, 2022 in cooperation with the Biocidal Occupational and Environmental Health Association, Ankara Ufuk University, Çukurova University, Ege University, and İstanbul Bilgi Unive...

Series of seminars on threats by obsolete pesticides in the Republic of Tajikistan

Dushanbe (Tajikistan), 08/11/2022 - 11/11/2022

During the 1990s, many former pesticides stores in Tajikistan have been privatized. The new owners when they excavate sometimes and find obsolete pesticides. However, most of the trenches were established in 60s-80s. Over the years, the pesticides were spread by erosion or construction works, leading to in some cases large-scale contamination of soils within villages. It is estimated that th...

National Horticulture Symposium Türkiye

Eğirdir (Türkiye), 27/09/2022 - 30/09/2022

During the National Horticulture Symposium in Türkiye, based on the results of 2-year trials in Egirdir Isparta, the impact of pheromone dispensers in the fight against Cydia pomonella will be presented.

The Symposium Proceedings can be reached 

2nd Regional Project Steering Committee Meeting​

Baku (Azerbaijan), Hybrid Event, 27/06/2022 - 29/06/2022

The main objectives of this 2^nd PSC meeting are to review the project progress to date, discuss challenges identified, to present the work pla...

Closing event of Promoting IPM practices in producers’ apple orchards to reduce chemical pesticides use and marketability of low input products in Eğirdir, Isparta

Eğirdir (Turkey), 16/12/2021

During this event the results of the second year implementation of IPM trials are presented and discussed with the relevant local stakeholders for further promotion of IPM in apple production in Isparta.  

Training for farmers on IPM in tomato and cucumber production

Ganja (Azerbaijan), 05/10/2021 - 07/10/2021