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🗣📢 Calling for Submissions: Case Studies on Financing Agrochemical and Plastic Reduction 📢

FARM is calling for case study submissions on financing solutions that reduce harmful agrochemicals and agricultural plastics. We are looking for examples of:

- Transition loans, equity, and other financing instruments
- Fiscal policy reforms and subsidy reorientation
- Enabling regulatory frameworks and public procurement strategies
- Market-based mechanisms and certification-linked finance
- Public-private partnerships and innovative grant mechanisms
- ...and other relevant examples. 

📝 Selected case studies will be featured in FARM's inaugural compendium, reaching a global audience of financial institutions, policymakers, and development practitioners working on sustainable agriculture. 

đź“… Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis. Deadline: 11 September 2026. 

More details are available on the attached concept note. đź”— Submit your Expression of Interest via the link below, and we look forward to hearing from you! 

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Chemicals and waste pollution continues to pose growing risks to human health, ecosystems, and economic development worldwide. Three years after the adoption of the Global Framework on Chemicals, the First International conference provides a critical moment to take stock of progress, identify gaps, and mobilize action and investment for a planet free of harm from chemicals and waste.

What the conference aims to deliver

This May 2026 edition of the FARM Newsletter showcases the latest developments, events and knowledge products advancing the transition to low-pollution, sustainable agrifood systems across FARM partner countries.From tackling illegal and counterfeit pesticides to strengthening regulatory… Read More

This fifth edition of the FARM Newsletter spotlights major programme milestones :- Launch of the new #GEFFARM website – a dynamic platform to strengthen collaboration and knowledge sharing.- National Policy Forum in the Philippines – advancing dialogue on eco-friendly crop protection.- March… Read More

Financing the growth of alternative, sustainable pest management solutions is a key element in the efforts to reduce the use and impact of harmful pesticides. Benjamin Warr and Alison Watson reflect on the biocontrol industry's direction and potential from FARM's perspective.

 

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Anastasiya Buchok & Cristian Camilo Rivera Machado

A Decade of Building Colombia’s Bioeconomy

Colombia’s bioeconomy has not emerged suddenly; it has been constructed progressively over more than a decade through scientific expeditions, strategic policy design, institutional strengthening, and territorial innovation. Milestones such as Colombia Bio—with its scientific expeditions that identified biologically valuable compounds—laid early foundations. These were strengthened by the Green Growth Mission and its CONPES 3934, which for the first ...

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations(FAO)

22 April 2026 | 12:00 – 13:30 CESTOrganized by FAO’s Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP), the event will explore how innovation, technology and policy can work together to strengthen global plant health and support more resilient and sustainable agrifood systems.This webinar will present… Read More

GEF FARM

This session is facilitated by UNEP FI as part of the GEF-funded Financing Agrochemical Reduction and Management (FARM) Programme. Informed by the Guidance on Pollution Reduction and Management in the Agriculture sector, the session will facilitate financial institutions,… Read More

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Melanie Bateman
European Weed Research Society

This upcoming webinar on "Bioherbicides: Applications, Prospects, and Limitations" may be of interest.One thing that partners (especially in the private sector) often ask for is recommendations for alternatives to herbicides such as glufosinate ammonium, glyphosate, etc. Meanwhile, many of the… Read More

📢 We’re hiring!The Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) is seeking a Private Sector Value Chains Specialist to support the establishment of a value chain-based facilitation mechanism designed to strengthen suppliers and retailers’ capacity to implement sustainability actions that align with… Read More

Green Growth Knowledge Partnership(GGKP), United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP)

  This webinar, under the FARM Knowledge Series, brings together national regulators, customs authorities, industry representatives, and international organizations to examine practical experiences in combating illegal and counterfeit pesticides. The discussion explores enforcement… Read More