Report of the 17th FAO/WHO Joint Meeting on Pesticide Management: Rome, Italy and online, 8–11 October 2024

Overview

The 17th Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Joint Meeting on Pesticide Management (JMPM) was hosted by the FAO at its headquarters in Rome, Italy on 8–11 October 2024. It was a hybrid meeting in which participants met physically or joined online.

The meeting agenda included the following items:

• summary of developments and actions taken after the 16th JMPM meeting in 2023;
• review of actions and recommendations from the 16th JMPM meeting;
• review of new guidance documents under development;
• revision of existing guidelines/guidance;
• planning development of new guidance and review of existing guidelines (and related issues; glossary of terms and definitions);
• reviewing the International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management (Code of Conduct) (2014 version);
• emerging and priority issues in pesticide management, including gaps, challenges and future directions of FAO and WHO; • reviewing the JMPM roadmap; and
• any other business, including JMPM observer selection and representation.

The list of recommendations of the JMPM is presented in Section 15 of this report.