The United Nations designated 12 May the International Day of Plant Health (IDPH) to raise global awareness on how protecting plant health can help end hunger, reduce poverty, protect biodiversity and the environment, and boost economic development. The Day is a key legacy of the International Year of Plant Health 2020, which was marked in 2020-2021.
The observance was unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly in a
resolution (A/RES/76/256) co-signed by Bolivia, Finland, Pakistan, the
Philippines, Tanzania and Zambia in March 2022. The resolution sets out that
healthy plants constitute the foundation for all life on Earth, as well as
ecosystem functions, food security and nutrition, adding that plant health is
key to the sustainable development of agriculture required to feed a growing
global population by 2050.
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