Sound chemicals management is vital to SDGs 3, 6 and 12 Phasing out highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) in agriculture is key to achieving the United Nations 2030 Agenda and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), experts said at a UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) side event on July 29. Titled "Finding...

Pollination is fundamental to plant reproduction, agricultural production and maintaining terrestrial biodiversity. Almost 90% of the world’s flowering plants are pollinated by insects such as bees, beetles, flies, wasps and butterflies, and it is estimated that about one-third of globally produced food benefits from animal pollination. Insect pollinators face increasing...

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...