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- The Financing Agrochemical Reduction and Management Programme (FARM) is a $379 million initiative to combat agrochemical pollution.
- It is Funded by the Global Environment Facility; the programme is led by UNEP.
- It seeks to change that, elaborating the business case for banks and policy-makers to reorient policy and financial resources towards farmers.
- These resources will help them adopt low- and non-chemical alternatives to toxic agrochemicals and facilitate a transition towards better practices.
- The five-year programme is projected to prevent over 51,000 tons of hazardous pesticides and over 20,000 tons of plastic waste from being released.
- It will avoid 35,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
- It is protecting over 3 million hectares of land from degradation as farms and farmers convert to low-chemical and non-chemical alternatives.
- The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a multilateral fund dedicated to confronting biodiversity loss, climate change, pollution, and strains on land and ocean health.
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