The Global Conference on Sustainable Plant Production: what you need to know
31/10/2022
Tomorrow's agriculture must produce more food with less of a environmental footprint, the basis for strong local and diversified agrifood systems that are more resilient to shocks and disruptions.
With this in mind, the first-ever Global Conference on Sustainable Plant Production (GPC) (2-4 November 2022) will provide a neutral forum for FAO Members, farmers, scientists, development agencies, policy makers, extensionists, civil society, opinion leaders, and the private sector for focused dialogues on innovation that creates efficient plant production systems with resilience to biotic and abiotic stresses, climate change, natural hazards and geopolitical disruptions.
The GPC will generate authoritative evidence to help achieve the goals set by FAO's Strategic Framework 2022-31, leading to MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems for better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life, leaving no one behind.
The GPC will focus on critical aspects of sustainable plant production systems around seven themes:
1. Seed systems
- Seed Toolkit (6 Modules)
- Proceedings of the Global Conference on Green Development of Seed Industries
- Quality Declared Seed Systems
- Practical guide for the application of the Genebank Standards for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Conservation of orthodox seeds in seed genebanks
- Practical guide for the application of the Genebank Standards for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Conservation in field genebanks
- Practical guide for the application of the Genebank Standards for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Conservation via in vitro culture
2. Field cropping systems
- Crops and climate change impact briefs. Climate-smart agriculture for more sustainable, resilient, and equitable food systems
- Dry Zone of Sri Lanka – Climate-Smart intensification of upland and lowland crop production systems
- Climate-smart agriculture case studies 2021 – Projects from around the world
- Conservation Agriculture: Training guide for extension agents and farmers in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
3. Protected cropping systems
- Unlocking the potential of protected agriculture in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council – Saving water and improving nutrition
- Good Agricultural Practices for greenhouse vegetable production in the South East European countries
- Good Agricultural Practices for greenhouse vegetable crops. Principles for Mediterranean climate areas
4. Natural resource management
- The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture
- The 10 elements of Agroecology. Guiding the transition to sustainable food and agricultural systems
5. Integrated pest management
- Protecting pollinators from pesticides – Urgent need for action
- Pesticides and environmental incidents: Rotterdam Convention on the prior informed consent procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade
- Pesticides use, pesticides trade and pesticides indicators – Global, regional and country trends
- Guidelines for the registration of microbial, botanical and semiochemical pest control agents for plant protection and public health uses
- Guidelines on Prevention and Management of Pesticide Resistance
6. Mechanization and digitalization
- Agri-hire in sub-Saharan Africa – Business models for investing in sustainable mechanization
- Empowering women farmers – A mechanization catalogue for practitioners
- Integrated Crop Management Vol. 24. Agriculture 4.0: Agricultural robotics and automated equipment for sustainable crop production
- Agricultural mechanization and child labour in developing countries. Background study
- Training of trainers manual on the operation, maintenance and repair of farm machinery
7. Farmers and enabling environment
- Urban and peri-urban agriculture sourcebook – From production to food systems
- Fruit and vegetables – Opportunities and challenges for small-scale sustainable farming
- Eliminating hazardous child labour through safe and sustainable farming practices
- Addressing hazardous child labour and reducing risks posed by hazardous pesticides
- Addressing gender issues in pesticide management
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