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.