The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) takes a comprehensive approach to pesticide management and actively assists countries in implementing best practices through various field projects on sound pesticide management. In line with this strategy, FAO's Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP)...

The 22nd JMPS Meeting was held from 13 to 18 June 2023 at Bundesamts für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit (BVL) in Braunschweig, Germany. The meeting brought together FAO and WHO panel members of JMPS. It was opened by Mr Baogen Gu, Team leader of Pest and...

  “The toolkit is good and very much helpful, especially for countries with limited resources and limited expertise. It should be emphasized for use during registration of pesticides in such countries including Tanzania”“the training is very helpfull in my dailly activities”

Sustainable agriculture, free of hazardous chemicals, is essential for the preservation of the environment and the production of safe and nutritious food in small islands developing states (SIDS). With funding from GEF, FAO is supporting nine SIDS in the Caribbean, transitioning towards sustainable agriculture. The five-year...

From 26 February to 2 March 2023, 16 staff of the Plant Protection & Phytosanitary Directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture and members of the National Pesticide Registration Committee of Jordan participated in a FAO Pesticide Registration Toolkit in Amman, organized jointly by FAO and...