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Plant health for One Health – Healthy plants for a healthy world
05/2026
This proposed global programme is aimed at reducing annual crop losses by USD 5 billion through strengthened institutional and human capacities for surveillance, monitoring and early warning for critically important plant pests and diseases, the widespread adoption of integrated pest management, and a reinforced enabling environment.Spanning 50 countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Near East, the global programme will empower farmers.
Climate-resilient drylands – Climate adaptation for sustainable and resilient dryland harvests
05/2026
The programme is envisaged to transform fragile landscapes in the target ecologies of ten countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Near East into climate-resilient, productive systems, with yield increases of up to 40 percent, and thereby underwrite the livelihoods of a significant proportion of the world’s population.
Ecosystem services for sustainable crop production systems – Harnessing biodiversity-friendly agricultural practices
04/2026
This global programme will strengthen institutional and human capacities for the management of biodiversity, including plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, to harness ecosystem services as complements to external inputs to boost the productivity and resilience of cropping systems and generate socio-economic benefits.
Harvesting change: sustainable crop production systems – Boosting smallholder livelihoods and ecosystem health
04/2026
This programme is proposed to unlock the potential of smallholder cropping systems in 15 countries across sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America. The transition to better productivity, resilience and overall sustainability will be catalysed through enhanced farmers’ adoption of validated scientific and technological innovations and the appropriate use of suitable inputs to spur improvements in seed systems, agronomy and plant health.
Sustainable agricultural mechanization - Fifteen things you need to know
04/2026
This leaflet answers common questions about FAO’s work on SAM. The global efforts led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to eradicate hunger and malnutrition include the transition to sustainable crop production systems, which produce more with less. Part of the Organization’s work in this domain is to enhance farmers’ adoption of sustainable agricultural mechanization (SAM).