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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. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetPesticide risk management 2016
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No results found.This products is part of a broader series composed by several factsheets about main activities of the AG Department. This factsheet in particular is about Pesticide Risk Management and illustrates the work AGP is doing in this area -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetPesticides risk reduction in Malawi 2019
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No results found.The Pesticides Risk Reduction in Malawi project is aimed at clearing all obsolete pesticides and putting in place measures to prevent further accumulation within the country. The overall project goal is the prevention of risks to both human health and the environment arising from obsolete pesticides and associated wastes, in order to promote sustainable intensification of agricultural production to meet the food, income and nutrition needs at both household and national level. The project is disposing of inventoried and warehoused obsolete pesticides, including POPs and remediating pesticide-contaminated sites. It is also pioneering empty container management in Malawi by establishing an empty container management scheme for proper recycling and disposal of empty pesticide containers. Furthermore, it is focusing on strengthening the legislative and institutional capacity for sound life-cycle management of pesticides in order to safeguard against future accumulation, and is training farmers on the use of safer alternatives to conventional pesticides through integrated pest management (IPM). Activities were initiated in March 2016, and are being implemented until June 2020 by the Pesticides Control Board (Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development), with technical and operational support from FAO.
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