Pesticides kill!
Pesticides harm people and the environment and can have high economic costs.Let’s make a change!
If everyone keeps to the FAO Code of Conduct, pesticides will cause far less damage.
Pesticides are used worldwide to control insects, weeds, diseases and other pests in agriculture and public health. As toxic chemicals, they can harm human health and the environment. In 1985 governments, meeting at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), adopted an International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides (Code of Conduct). It calls on all stakeholders, from food companies to farmers and public interest groups, to use it and monitor its implementation. A revised Code of Conduct was adopted in 2002 by the 187 member nations of the FAO as the globally accepted minimum standard for pesticide management.
This website
is provided by Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Germany in cooperation with all PAN Regional Centers to support public interest groups, governments, companies and others in becoming active on the implementation of the FAO Code of Conduct for the distribution and use of pesticides. Even though the Code also applies to public health pesticides this website is focussing on agricultural pesticides.
This website
is provided by Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Germany in cooperation with all PAN Regional Centers to support public interest groups, governments, companies and others in becoming active on the implementation of the FAO Code of Conduct for the distribution and use of pesticides. Even though the Code also applies to public health pesticides this website is focussing on agricultural pesticides.
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