Consisting of 23 Member countries along with the European Union, the GFCM’s objectives are to promote the development, conservation, rational management and best utilization of living marine resources, as well as the sustainable development of aquaculture in the Mediterranean, Black [...]

Since 2001 GFMC is serving as coordinator and facilitator of the UNISDR Wildland Fire Advisory Group and the UNISDR Global Wildland Fire Network, a global voluntary network that is providing policy advice, and science and technology transfer to enable nations: • to reduce [...]

The CGIAR Independent Science & Partnership Council (ISPC) is a standing panel of eminent scientific experts, whose aim is to strengthen the quality, relevance, and impact of CGIAR science. The ISPC’s overarching purpose is to provide independent advice and expertise [...]

The IPPC allows countries to analyze risks to their national plant resources and to use science-based measures to safeguard their cultivated and wild plants. By protecting plant resources from pests and diseases, the IPPC helps: protect farmers from economically devastating pest [...]

The LEAP Partnership was founded in 2012 as a result of a consultative process between FAO’s Animal Production and Health Division with three stakeholder groups (governments, private sector and civil society). The overarching goal of this initiative is to contribute to [...]

The objectives of the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade entered into force on 24 February 2004. The Convention creates legally binding obligations for the implementation of the Prior [...]