The first meeting of the National Task Force (NTF) for the implementation of the One Country One Priority Product initiative (OCOP) was organized with over 30 participants and observers. The meeting was co-chaired by Mr Ruhul Amin Talukder, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Govern...

The Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP) held its fourth mid-year meeting in FAO headquarters since the first NSP mid-year meeting held in 2020.

Following the outcomes of the 2022 Employee Satisfaction Survey (E2S), launched on 21 March to over 14,000 employees, the Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP) discussed the results and organized its first ever webinar on ethics as one of the follow-up actions.

The second appointment of the International Year of Millets (IYM) Global Webinar Series took place virtually with over 100 participants and provided opportunity to discuss the historical, anthropological, archaeological aspects of millets and their evolving heritage today.

The webinar “Boosting the potential of women farmers as protagonist of agroecological experiences: stories from the field’’ took place virtually with over 90 participants engaged to share the updates, lessons learnt and activities on the importance of the work women farmers are doing to implement agroecological experiences in all regions.

An extensive menu of biological control options to manage destructive invasive pests, including fall armyworm (FAW), and rich insights on the challenges and potential solutions for a worldwide scale up of the strategies were key outcomes from a global forum on urgently needed sustainable biological control measures.