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FAO's Plant Production and Protection Division (AGP) promotes Sustainable Intensification of Crop Production. This approach requires the integration and harmonization of all appropriate crop production policies and practices aimed at increasing crop productivity in a sustainable manner, thereby meeting key millennium development goals aimed at reducing hunger and preserving the natural resources and environment for future use. The focus of our activities are to develop and strengthen

  • effective and strategic decisions that increase crop production using an ecosystem approach
  • national capacities to monitor and to respond effectively to transboundary and other important outbreak pests
  • policies and technologies appropriate to needs of a country and/or region to reduce negative impact of pesticides
  • conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources with strong linkages between conservation, plant breeding and seed sector development.

 

What is happening in and around Plant Production and Protection?

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Pollination Information Management System launched

FAO's Plant Production and Protection Division has launched a new website for its "Global Action on Pollination Services for Sustainable Agriculture".In addition to documents, case studies and glossary, this website also provides an interactive internet resource, the Pollination...[more]
  • Rapid Assessment of Pollinators' Status: A Contribution to the International Initiative for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Pollinators
  • New ecosystem approach based project: wild pollinators for food production

    • Pest and Pesticide Management

    Desert locust outbreak in Mauritania - Situation assessment, forecasts and measures envisaged

    The situation is under control and closely followed by FAO and CLCPRO The National Center for Locust Control (CNLA) of Mauritania is continuing land operations of survey and control in the central and western central regions of the country on larval aggregates and fledglings....[more]
  • Acting together against banana diseases in Africa
  • Wasp controls pest threatening Ethiopia’s tree plantations
  • Red Locust disaster in Eastern Africa prevented

    • Seeds and Plant Genetic Resources

    Fourth Session of the Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

    The plant genetic diversity is the biological basis of food security and supports the livelihoods of every person on Earth. The conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) is essential to ensure agriculture production and meet...[more]
  • South and Southeast Asia Discussion on Plant Breeding Capacity Wraps Up
  • Seed Alliance WIthout Boundaries (SAWIB)
  • New Regional Seed Association for Central Asia and the Caucasus

    • Plant Production and Climate Change

    GIS-based scenarios of SOC annual change on croplands at sub-national level: case studies of Burkina Faso and Uzbekistan

    FAO-IFAD-IPCC Expert Meeting Rome, 20-22 October, 2009 This presentation discusses the application of the IPCC methodological guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, which aim at estimating and inventorying greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and sequestration capacity...[more]
  • Workshop on the Role of Grassland Carbon Sequestration in Mitigation
  • Potential of Conservation Agriculture systems for mitigating Climate Change
  • Conservation Agriculture Carbon Offset Consultation

    • Horticulture and Industrial Crops

    Horticulture for Livelihood Security and Economic Growth

    The International Conference on Horticulture (ICH-2009) was held in Bangalore-India from 9 to 12 November 2009. The theme of the conference was “Horticulture for the livelihood security and economic growth”. In this international scientific meeting, a total of 647 lead and...[more]
  • The All Africa Horticulture Congress
  • Good Agricultural Practices for Greenhouse Systems
  • Fruit Nurseries in Amhara and Tigray Regions

    • Sustainable Crop Production Intensification

    15th Meeting of the FAO-CIHEAM Mountain Pastures Network

    This meeting was organised with the Swiss Research Station Agroscope Changins-Wädenswil. 65 research fellows from 15 different countries have been reunited to exchange knowledge and to identify new challenges for the society during three days. “Integrated research for the...[more]
  • Current world fertilizer trends and outlook to 2013
  • Chad: development of dihe for vulnerable populations
  • Hunger in the World - is the current way of doing farming still up to date?

    • International Treaties, Conventions, Advisory Bodies

    Third Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

    The Third Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture will bring together in Tunis, from 1 to 5 June 2009 more than 300 participants to discuss about the future regulation and implementation of the Multilateral...[more]
  • "Road-blocks" for plant pests moving with international trade
  • 4th Meeting of Conference of the Parties to Rotterdam Convention
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