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UN agencies release updated guidelines for countries on pesticide legislation and labelling

25 November 2015

Some 30 years to the day after the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) first launched its International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides, the agency is calling on countries to make sure that national regulatory frameworks governing the management of pesticides are kept up to date.

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Efforts made to reduce pesticide risk to children

20 May 2015

General News

Efforts are underway to minimize risks to children exposed to pesticides used during agricultural production.

According to figures released by the United Nations, around four million children globally are working in the agriculture sector.

But now a new tool is being released to promote the safer use of pesticides.

Bernd Seiffert is the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s focal point for Child Labour Prevention in Agriculture.

Sandra Ferrari asked him why the tool is needed.

UN-backed campaign prevents locust outbreak in East Africa

24 June 2009

United Nations-backed emergency efforts have successfully contained a massive Red Locust outbreak in Tanzania and upheld the livelihoods of millions of farmers, marking the first time that biopesticides have been used on a large-scale in Africa against the transboundary pests.

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UN agency calls for funds to clean up pesticide waste in Latin America

30 May 2005

The scale of toxic chemical waste from unused and obsolete pesticides in Latin America is far bigger than previously estimated, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said today, urging international funding to address the problem.

Repackaged pesticides sold in wine and whiskey bottles.

Pesticide poisoning affects children at higher rate - UN agencies

5 October 2004

Pesticide poisoning is a serious health problem that disproportionately affects infants and children, three United Nations agencies say in a new report released today, urging steps to minimize youngsters' exposure to such potentially deadly chemicals.

14 hazardous substances added to UN-backed treaty on pesticides

24 September 2004

Fourteen new hazardous chemicals and pesticides have been added to an initial watch list of 27 substances subject to a United Nations-backed treaty aimed at helping developing countries more effectively manage the dangerous materials.

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UN-backed treaty on hazardous chemicals to get teeth at Geneva meeting

17 September 2004

Officials from more than 100 countries are to meet next week in Geneva to give teeth to a United Nations-backed treaty aimed at helping developing countries more effectively manage hazardous chemicals and pesticides that have poisoned hundreds of thousands of people in recent decades and killed thousands through accidents, misuse and inadequate controls.

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12 rich countries seek exemption from ban on ozone-destroying pesticide - UN

23 March 2004

A dozen developed countries will ask for transitional exemptions to the ban on the ozone-destroying and highly toxic pesticide methyl bromide as delegates gather for a three-day United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) meeting starting tomorrow in Montreal, Canada.

Rotterdam Convention on safely marketing chemicals comes into force, UN says

24 February 2004

The Rotterdam Convention, a labelling agreement enabling countries to decide which potentially dangerous chemicals they want to import or to exclude, became legally binding on its parties today, two United Nations bodies said.

UN green meeting agrees to defer decision on pesticide exemption

14 November 2003

Delegates at a United Nations environmental meeting in Nairobi today deferred a decision until next year on whether to grant an exemption over the phasing out of an ozone-damaging pesticide.

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