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AGP - Plant Production and Protection Home
FAO's Plant Production
and Protection Division
(AGP) promotes
Sustainable Intensification
of Crop Production. This
approach requires the
integration and
harmonization of all
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appropriate crop production
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policies and practices
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aimed at increasing crop
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productivity in a sustainable
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manner, thereby meeting 
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key millennium
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development goals aimed
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at reducing hunger and
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preserving the natural
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resources and environment
Interdisciplinary Work
for future use. The focus of
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our activities are to develop
AGP Project Work
and strengthen
Networks
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effective and
strategic decisions
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that increase crop
production using
an ecosystem
approach
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national capacities
to monitor and to
respond effectively
to transboundary
and other
important outbreak
pests
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policies and
technologies
appropriate to
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Sustainable Crop
Production Intensification
Pest and Pesticide
Management
Seeds and Plant Genetic
Resources
Biodiversity and
Ecosystem Services
Plant Production and
Climate Change
Horticulture and
Diversification
International Treaties,
Conventions, Advisory
Bodies
needs of a country
and/or region to
reduce negative
impact of
pesticides
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conservation and
sustainable use of
plant genetic
resources with
strong linkages
between
conservation, plant
breeding and seed
sector
development.
What is happening
in and around Plant
Production and
Protection?
Seeds and Plant
Genetic Resources
Taller Mesoamericano:
Semillas de Alta Calidad en
Manos de los Agricultores
Familiares: Promoviendo
Instituciones Públicas Más
Inclusivas. Ciudad de
Panamá, del 10 al 12 de
noviembre 2015
Varios países de
Mesoamérica, vienen
trabajando para apoyar la
producción de semilla de
alta calidad de granos
básicos, producida por
agricultores familiares. Es
el momento de hacer un
intercambio de experiencias
para realizar
recomendaciones que
beneficien a la
seguridad...[more]
 Capacity
Development of the
Ministry of
Agriculture of
Georgia: a FAO/ADA
project
 Genebank
Standards for Plant
Genetic Resources
for Food and
Agriculture
 Producing quality
seeds means quality
yields
Sustainable Crop
Production
Intensification
The SHARP resilience tool
publication and initial
results from Angola
The Self-evaluation and
Holistic Assessment of
climate Resilience of
farmers and Pastoralists
(SHARP) was developed in
2013 with the aim to help
smallholder farmers and
pastoralists assess their
climate resilience and
facilitate discussion
between community
members on ways...[more]
 Assessing climate
resilience of
smallholder farmers
and pastoralists –
the SHARP tool in
action
 Farmers Field
Schools (FFS):
Strengthening
capacities at subregional level
 SHARP EDiscussion
Plant Production
and Climate
Change
FAO/OECD Workshop:
Building Resilience for
Adaptation to Climate
Change in the Agriculture
Sector
The FAO/OECD Workshop
on Building Resilience for
Adaptation to Climate
Change in the Agriculture
Sector will consider the
various types risks to which
agriculture is prone, the
incidence climate change is
expected to have on them,
and various risk
management
strategies,...[more]
 Online Information
Package on Climatesmart Agriculture
Goes Live
 GIS-based
scenarios of SOC
annual change on
croplands at subnational level: case
studies of Burkina
Faso and
Uzbekistan
 Workshop on the
Role of Grassland
Carbon
Sequestration in
Mitigation
Pest and Pesticide
Management
Creation of a Regional
network on Farmer Field
Schools in West and
Central Africa: upscaling of
quality FFS from local to
global level
Participants call for action
to strengthen support to
participatory farmer
education through
FFS[more]
 Farmer field
schools: a
participatory
approach to capacity
building for food
production systems
that are efficient,
sustainable and
inclusive.
 Regional
workshop on Farmer
Field Schools (FFS)
in Central and West
Africa, 7 to 11
December 2015,
Dakar
 Innovative
approaches for
linking sustainable
and agro-ecological
production to
markets in
developing countries
Horticulture and
Diversification
ZEAT-BEAD Project in
South Sudan
The conflict that erupted at
the end of 2013 sharply
exacerbated the already
fragile food security
situation in South Sudan.
Although the greater Bahr
el Ghazal area has not
been the hardest hit, it has
not been spared of the
impacts of the crisis. The
relative stability of
this...[more]
 A new project on
food security in
urban areas in
Central Africa was
launched in Malabo
 VIII International
Congress on Cactus
Pear and Cochineal
 Greener cities in
Africa
International
Treaties,
Conventions,
Advisory Bodies
Rotterdam Convention:
Cross-cutting technical
assistance for African
Lusophone countries
The Rotterdam Convention,
with its normative work
related to international trade
of hazardous pesticides,
plays a key role for the
achievement of food
security and poverty
reduction since it
contributes to increased
sustainable agricultural
production and to the
implementation...[more]
 The achievements
of Rotterdam
Convention in
contributing to attain
food security through
sustainable
agriculture in 2014
 10th meeting of
the Chemical
Review Committee
 Monitoring SHPFs
in Latin-America
Biodiversity and
Ecosystem
Services
Agroecology within FAO –
from global and regional
dialogue to implementation
Agroecological approaches
have been given increased
attention within FAO. As
regional meetings are being
held this year, FAO is
gearing up to implement
Agroecology with partners
in the next biennium. [more]
 Pollination in
apple orchards in the
Hindu-Kush
Himalaya region
 Measuring
Pollination Deficits
 The risk of
pesticides to wild
bees
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