Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) cause severe and irreversible harm to the environment and human health. They result in millions of involuntary poisoning cases each year, especially in low- and middle-income countries, with women and children working in agricultural environments the worst affected.To help...

From May 6th to 10th, 2024, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) organized a workshop on its pesticide registration toolkit in the picturesque town of Yusufhona, Uzbekistan. This event brought together government officials from three distinct departments to enhance their understanding...

Over the last three years, under the ACP-MEAS 3 project, a European Union-funded initiative that seeks to strengthen environmental governance and implement Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), Zimbabwe has made significant progress in policy development, sustainable agriculture research and development, mitigation of the impact of Highly...

The Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR) 2023, a key gathering of scientists from around the world organized by FAO/WHO secretariats, took place from September 13 to 28 in Washington DC, USA. More than 60 experts from 25 countries participated, making it a collaborative effort...

The 16th FAO/WHO Joint Meeting on Pesticide Management (JMPM) was held from November 6 to 10 of 2023, at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva. The Secretariat, panel members from both, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and WHO,...