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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetPesticide lifecycle management: Facilitating safer and greener agriculture 2023
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This leaflet provides nutshell information about pesticide lifecycle management for all stakeholders to assist in design of locally adapted pesticide lifecycle management. In this leaflet, FAO’s approach on the pesticide lifecycle management considering all elements involved – from the production of pesticides to their use and eventual disposal- based on the international standards and best practices is given. The significance of pesticide lifecycle management for 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Agenda is also briefly explained. -
BookletYearbook 2023: Lifecycle management of pesticides and disposal of POPs pesticides in Central Asian countries and Türkiye 2024
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This Yearbook for 2023 highlights the main achievements of the project, “Lifecycle Management of Pesticides and Disposal of POPs Pesticides in Central Asian countries and Türkiye,” which is funded by GEF and managed by FAO. The aim of the document is to share progress with the key stakeholders and to increase the synergy for more efficient results ahead. All main activities and results achieved at regional and country level in 2023 to reduce threats from POPs and other obsolete pesticides posing high risks to public health and the environment, to strengthen the legal as well as the institutional framework for proper pesticide management across its full lifecycle, and to reduce the use of pesticides through introduction of improved agricultural practices are summarized in the Yearbook 2023. This publication and other Yearbooks of the project facilitate to monitor the results achieved at regional level as well as country level in terms of two basic pillars of the project, disposal of obsolete pesticides and prevention of obsolete pesticides, for all stakeholders. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetPesticide risk reduction - Revised version 2017
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No results found.FAO promotes Integrated Pest Management (IPM) as the preferred, ecologically-based approach to growing healthy crops, which reduces pesticide use only as needed and when adhering to measures that limit the exposure of people and the environment to them. IPM enhances natural pest control mechanisms. FAO has reduced the risks from pesticide use for millions of farmers as a result of hands-on training using Farmer Field Schools (FFS). They aim to build the capacity of smallholder farmers for ecolog ical pest management.
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