The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 SDGs were adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in September 2015. The SDGs aim to meet the dual challenge of overcoming poverty and protecting the planet. They highlight a comprehensive vision of sustainable development that embraces economic, social and environmental dimension.
The goal of this community of practice is to facilitate discussions with various stakeholders from different sectors on documents and other knowledge materials being developed around the linkages between chemical management and the achievement of the sustainable development goals, including gender (learn more about SDGs here).
Another key goal is how to bring in and engage with the youth in relation to chemicals and the sustainable development goals.
Past sessions
Online discussion: Innovation for achieving the Chemical related SDGs
Download the community of practice summary of discussions
My work on training farmers on proper agrochemical use keeps the levels of chemicals in the food chain at minimum residual levels because the farmers are in position to access knowledge on the good agricultural practices that relate to chemical us
By controlling and managing chemicals, develop action and implementation plans, draft laws and enforcement, review Regulations and developing standards
We work with partners in 12 countries and provide capacity building to communities to do community monitoring of pesticides on human health and the environment. With such information communities then decide on pesticide reduction and move towards agroecology.We organise learning exchanges on agroecology at the national and regional levels and support capacity building agreocolgical practices.We share and distribute scientific and policy information for example, the publication, "Replacing Chemicals with Biology" and a list of countries and banned pesticides.We organise awareness campaigns, for example, Protect Our Children from Toxic pesticides and No Pesticide Use Week