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BookletSue's apple orchard 2021
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In conventional agricultural production, the most commonly used method of fighting plant diseases and pests is pesticide applications. However, the widespread, intensive and improper use of pesticides that have toxic effects has caused the balance of the ecosystem to break down. Water and soil have become polluted, and the soil less fertile. Pesticides also have adverse effects on non-target organisms, beneficial organisms that they are very important in agricultural production and animals that consume pesticide treated products. Pesticides have also been scientifically proven to cause acute and chronic health problems for both manufacturers and consumers. According to FAO statistics, when comparing the amount of pesticides used in the 1990s to the amount used in the 2010s, there has been an increase of more than 50 percent. It is, however, possible to produce without the use of pesticides or by minimizing the use of them. Environmentally friendly agricultural production can be done with approaches such as IPM, organic agriculture and agro-ecological production. In this book Sue uses more and more pesticides to protect her apples from maggots. As more pesticides are used, the maggots create resistance and are better able to withstand the pesticide, and the orchard is disappearing. Pheromones can be used to stop maggots from multiplying. Thanks to pheromones, the apples are not damaged. This way of getting rid of maggots means that there is no damage to nature or human health. -
Book (stand-alone)Guideline to promote integrated pest management through Farmer Field Schools in smallholder agriculture in Ethiopia 2024
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No results found.Plant protection in Ethiopia formally begin in the 1940s with focus on promoting use of pesticides. To this date, the pest control measure with wider acceptance has been the use of second generation synthetic organic pesticides. The most used are the highly hazardous pesticides, which have the reputation of posing serious risk to health and the environment.In Ethiopia, the total area under crops production is well over 13milion hectares. On the other hand, the quantities of pesticides available every year have not been enough even to protect crops grown in 1million hectares. Despite this, there has been rampant misuse of pesticides affecting health and the environment. Moreover, the attainable yield remained low with substantial yield losses incurred every year due to pest damage. This indicates clearly that the increase in yield gain remained low. Thus, promoting IPM through FFS was thought to be the means for growing healthy crops with high yield, sustainably manage economic pests, reduce pesticide use and protect health and the environment.It was based on this that FAO promoted IPM through the FFS approach and achieved the following outputs: enhanced human and institutional capacity for promoting IPM in smallholder fields, established and capacitated IPM-FFS groups who successfully reduced economic damage by pests, generated scalable outputs, conducted experience-sharing events on the outputs and reached more smallholder farmers. Therefore, using the scaled-out outputs as empirical data this guideline to promote IPM through FFS in the smallholders’ farmers was developed to create wider awareness and further implementation. -
BookletFAO–Global Environment Facility Türkiye Programme 2023
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No results found.The FAO–GEF Türkiye Programme, which receives funding from the Global Environmental Facility and the Government of Türkiye, offers essential assistance in various areas. These include the sustainable management of forests, land, and water resources, biodiversity conservation through agroecology practices, nature-based solutions, and climate-smart agriculture. The programme aims to boost food and nutrition security while also improving livelihoods. Aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the FAO–GEF Türkiye Programme embraces inclusivity and sustainability, with a particular focus on empowering women and youth for rural development and resilience. It addresses the challenges of poverty, climate change, biodiversity loss, and desertification. Türkiye strongly supports the vision of FAO and the four betters: better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life, in order to transform sustainable food systems which are key elements to achieve the SDGs. This insightful provides detailed information about the collaborative efforts between FAO and Türkiye.
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