Dr Finbarr Horgan

Finbarr Horgan

Technical Specialist (FAO Consultant)

Finbarr is an ecologist with over 25 years of international experience in developing sustainable farming systems. His research focuses on ecosystem health approaches to food production. Healthy production systems address food (including food quality), livelihood securities, farmer health, and the conservation of beneficial flora and fauna and their ecosystem functions. Finbarr has promoted agroecological crop protection methods among farmers in Latin America, Europe and Asia to escape the ‘lock-in’ to agrochemical use. He currently works to support the Global Action Plan on Highly Hazardous Pesticides in agriculture.