Sustainable agriculture, free of hazardous chemicals, is essential for the preservation of the environment and the production of safe and nutritious food in small islands developing states (SIDS). With funding from GEF, FAO is supporting nine SIDS in the Caribbean, transitioning towards sustainable agriculture. The five-year...

From 26 February to 2 March 2023, 16 staff of the Plant Protection & Phytosanitary Directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture and members of the National Pesticide Registration Committee of Jordan participated in a FAO Pesticide Registration Toolkit in Amman, organized jointly by FAO and...

The FAO Pest and Pesticide Management team and FAO e-learning Academy, together with the European Union, the Swedish Chemicals Agency, and the partners of Inter-Organization Programme for the sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC): UNITAR, the World Bank, ILO, WHO, OECD, UNDP, UNIDO and FAO, are happy...

This year the 15th meeting of the FAO/WHO Joint Meeting on Pesticide Management (JMPM) was held at the FAO HQ in Rome from 15 to 18 November. The meeting brought together FAO and WHO Panel members and regional officers, intergovernmental organizations, UNEP and OECD, and...