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A guide to the World Bee Day 2025
05/2025
Bees and other pollinators are essential for sustainable agriculture and ecological balance, enabling the production of over 75% of global crops, including fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. This guide is useful to learn about their vital role, take action, and help protect them for a healthier planet and sustainable agrifood systems. Bee inspired by nature to nourish us al!
Guidance on integrated pest management for the world’s major crop pests and diseases
05/2025
This publication presents integrated pest management (IPM) strategies for eight major global crop pests and diseases. It offers practical, climate-resilient solutions—from traditional practices to advanced tools like biocontrol, robotics, and digital alerts—tailored to cereals, potatoes, fruits, and vegetables. Aimed at policymakers, practitioners, and farmers, it promotes agroecological approaches to build pest-suppressive cropping systems.
International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management: Guidance note on addressing illegal trade of pesticides
05/2025
This guidance note offers a framework for regulating pesticides and addressing illegal trade, which threatens health, the environment, and agriculture. It ensures only approved pesticides are available, providing technical guidelines for authorities, distributors, retailers, and users. Emphasizing a One Health strategy, it proposes mitigation strategies such as awareness campaigns, responsible trade, improved compliance, and stronger global cooperation.
A guide to the International Day of Potato (Second edition)
04/2025
This guide explores the potato’s rich history and its far-reaching impact on people and agriculture. It also calls on governments, civil society, NGOs, parents, and educators to learn more about this remarkable crop and its role in our lives. Available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
The Third Report on The State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
03/2025
The report presents a comprehensive assessment of the conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA, as well as the human and institutional capacities to support these efforts. Based on information from 128 countries and four regional and 13 international research centres and the contribution from over 1 600 experts, it presents an overview of progress since 2012, and the current needs and challenges in the future management of PGRFA.