Kim-Anh Tempelman is the global project coordinator of FAO's Capacity Building Programme for African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries that participate in Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) — otherwise known as ACP MEAs 3. She says farming must go hand in hand with the biodiversity on which it depends, and one...

Francesca Mancini is a tropical agronomist with 22 years' experience in promoting sustainable agriculture in Asia, Africa and now the Pacific, where she is the regional coordinator for the ACP MEAs 3 programme. She grew up in a family of hard working, value-based people who believe that the younger generation...

An entomologist by training, Ivy Saunyama is the ACP MEAs 3 regional coordinator for Africa and has 25 years’ professional experience in pest and pesticide management. Growing up on her parents’ maize, dairy and poultry farm sparked her love of nature: at 14 she knew she wanted to work in...

ACP MEAs 3 Caribbean Region Coordinator Thérèse Yarde, an environmental engineer with a PhD in human geography, found her calling at the age of 14, when the Global Conference on Sustainable Development for Small Island Developing States took place in Barbados where she grew up. TY: The conference came, and there...