Partner States of East African Community (EAC) - Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda - are collaborating to promote sound life cycle pesticide management with FAO support through the EU funded programme on Capacity Building related to Multilateral Environmental Agreements – Phase 3 (“ACP MEAs 3”). The joint...

Mangroves are in decline globally, with mangrove forest cover decreasing by over 1 million hectares worldwide in the past two decades. But in the Caribbean things are different: in this part of the world, mangrove cover actually expanded over the period 2000 to 2015.  The ACP MEAs 3 team in...

Global Project Coordinator Kim-Anh Tempelman represented ACP MEAs 3 at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15), which took place in Montreal from 7-19 December 2022 What was the ACP MEAs 3 contribution to CBD COP15? Over the past couple of years...

For many smallholder farmers nestled in the green rolling hills of the Southern Highlands of Tanzania, rice production is the primary source of income and nutrition In the village of Kapunga in Tanzania's Mbarali district, smallholder farmers depend on rice cultivation as their number one source of income. Here the EU-funded FAO...

For St Lucia National Coordinator Leshan Monrose, growing up to become an environmental manager was her "default" setting. After graduating with a degree in Management Studies, she obtained a Master's in Natural Resource and Environmental Management with a specialization in climate changeat the University of the West Indies. She says...

On 13 April 2022, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), pesticide stakeholders, and government policymakers convened in Dodoma for a high-level meeting to present the findings of a risk assessment on Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) conducted by the Tanzania Pesticide Research Institute (TPRI), now known as...

Participants at a global seminar on strengthening regulations to protect pollinators from pesticides organized by the European Union-funded, FAO-led ACP MEAs 3 programme identified priorities for action to safeguard vital pollinators such as bees, without whom the world's food production systems would be severely affected. The priorities for action in five...

Vegetable farmer Zainab Byukusenge, 44, grows beans, garlic, onions and Irish potatoes on her one hectare of arable land in the Rubavu District of Western Rwanda. She says her yields have increased and her income has improved thanks to skills and knowledge she aquired at a training workshop on Integrated Pest...

Biodiversity for food and agriculture is under threat, and the international community must act now to restore, protect and conserve it for present and future generations, participants heard at a webinar organized by FAO's ACP MEAs 3 programme on 25 November.  The webinar was organized upon request by the Southern Africa...

ACP MEAs 3 Rwanda National Coordinator Grace Uwamwezi is a passionate environmental scientist with a degree in Environmental Health, a Master's in Environmental Governance and 13 years' experience with international organizations that focus on environmental management, sustainable agriculture and livestock development in Africa. She says urgent action is needed to...