Food safety and agricultural health

Pest Management

FAO provides technical assistance to member countries to develop and  implement pest management programs. FAO’s assistance is especially requested when the pests are priority transboundry regional pests, such as fruit flies, coffee berry borer, coconut lethal yellowing, and Asian soybean rust. These pests cause enormous direct losses through in crops. In addition, they are of great importance because they may create restrictions on trade, as countries without the pests restrict imports in an effort to prevent introduction of a quarantine pest. 

The FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean has a long history of supporting programmes of pest management in the region, including these projects (all reports in their original language only):

• Integrated management of agricultural pests in the principal nutritional crops of Peru.
• Support to Honduras for the management of coconut lethal yellowing.
• Support to Costa Rica and Panama in the management of Coffee berry borer
• National program of control and eradicate the Coffee berry borer in Venezuela
• Exclusion of the Mexican boll weevil and training in integrated management of pests on the cotton

The Integrated Pest Management (IPM) portal on FAO: Integrated Pest Management