The GEF FARM programme has launched in Nairobi!

The Financing Agrochemical Reduction and Management (FARM) programme is a five-year, USD 37.5 million initiative, led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), that will seek to reduce the use of harmful chemicals, pesticides and plastics in agriculture, as well as invest in the cause.

Every year, at least four million tonnes of pesticides are applied worldwide, while plastics in food production and packaging account for 50 million tonnes of plastic production every year, 14% of all plastic produced.

The harm they do is evident – each year 11,000 people die from the negative effects of agrochemicals while soils and ecosystems are degraded from their residues and from plastic pollution.

The FARM inception meeting today was opened by John Elungata, from the Kenyan Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry.

Learn more at: https://www.greenpolicyplatform.org/initiatives/gef-farm