Report of the16th FAO/WHO Joint Meeting on Pesticide Management: Geneva, Switzerland and online, 6–10 November 2023

Overview

The 16th FAO/WHO Joint Meeting on Pesticide Management (JMPM) was hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO) at its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on 6–10 November 2023. It was a hybrid meeting in which participants met physically or joined virtually.

The meeting agenda included the following items:

• Summary of developments and actions taken since the previous (15th) JMPM meeting (Rome, 15–18 November 2022);
  
• review of actions and recommendations from the 15th meeting;
• review of guidance under development;
• planning for the development of new guidance and review of existing guidelines;
• emerging and priority issues in pesticide management, including gaps, challenges and future directions for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and WHO;
• revision of the International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management (2014) (“the Code of Conduct”); and
• any other busines

The recommendations of the JMPM are listed in section 13 of this report