FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism: Fighting against Fall Armyworm
Channel: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Date: 2022-04-15

A silent and fast spreading threat is endangering the food security of nearly 600 million people,  especially the most vulnerable. It can ravage over 80 different types of crops.  The prey of choice? MAIZE. Unless we act fast, it could devour 80 million tonnes per year. Since its arrival in West Africa in 2016,  Fall Armyworm (FAW) has spread across Africa, the Near East and Asia, reaching as far as Australia. In Kenya, Josephine Owese cultivates maize in order to feed families and livestock. In 2017, FAW attacked her crops. 

Josephine tried various methods to combat the plague, but none seemed to work. 

Thanks to Famer Field Schools training, supported by FAO's Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM), Josephine learnt how to use a botanical biopesticide which has proved effective in combating the pest while conserving the beneficial organisms. 

Thank you FMM Resource Partners, for improving the lives and livelihoods of Josephine and other smallholder farmers. 

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