The Systemwide Program on Integrated Pest Management

Talking point Pesticides and Humanity: The Benefits of Using Pesticides
	Food production is crucial to everyone, but sustainable livelihoods based on farming are especially important for many of the world’s poorest people. Of the 1.2 billion living on the equivalent of less than US$1 a day about 75 percent live and work in rural areas and most rely on agriculture directly. These people cannot afford to have their crops ravaged or destroyed during production or storage.....Details

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The SP-IPM is an inter-institutional partnership program of the CGIAR