Can Crop Diversity Reduce Disease Pressure? The Case of Maize in China
Can Biodiversity be Part of Pest and Disease Manage? Asking the Right Questions
Climate Changes and Pests and Diseases: a Quick Overview
Small holder farmers are constantly fighting with pests and diseases and every year they need to bet on which options, in terms of varieties and crops, will reduce the loss caused by pests and diseases. This is a real challenge for them as the type of pests and pathogens in any given year or cropping [...]
Much of the 30% of the world’s annual harvest lost to pests and diseases occurs in developing countries. The resulting economic and food resource costs are, to a significant extent, a consequence of crops growing in monocultures and the continuing evolution of new races of pests and pathogens that are able to overcome resistance genes [...]
The effects of climate change on potential abiotic stresses are well known. Changes in CO2 concentration, increased temperature, increased drought, changing on rainfall patterns have all been documented in the IPCC reports (http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_and_data_reports.shtml) and in several recent publications. The effects of climate change will be different in different parts of the world and there exist [...]
Can plant be protected by insects when they are attacked by pests?
The mechanisms of resistance to pests put in place by landraces to defend themselves from pests attacks are a very important source of resistance. With globalization, both resistant varieties and pests and pathogens move around As a consequence resistance genes in secondary centres [...]
Our team in Uganda led by John Mulumba Waswa and Rose Nankya was prepared for interviewing 60 farmers in each of the three sites where beans are the target crop (Nakaseke, Kabwohe, and Rubaya). The team is composed of farmers that are directly involved in the project and were trained to conduct the interviews. The [...]
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On the 19th of May, Dr. Carlo Fadda presented the major results of the pests and diseases project at ICRAF head quarter in Nairobi. The conference lasted for 30 minutes followed by 30 minutes of the discussion. The seminar was an opportunity to discuss the role of agrobiodiversity in reducing pressure from pests and diseases.During [...]
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An article from Ecuadorian newspaper “La Gaceta” on a Musa genetic diversity fair in La Maná, in Ecuador, organized by groups of farmers and college students, who joined together as part as a Bioversity International project. The project was supported by Iniap, the Agricultural Engeneer National Institute for Agricultural Research, which also provided a three-year training for farmers on knowledge of biodiversity of crops and on how to control pests and diseases.
More »An International Conference entitled “Damage, Diversity and Genetic Vulnerability: the Role of Crop Genetic Diversity in Agricultural Production System” took place in Morocco from the 15th to the 17th of February. The conference, organized by the Intitut gronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II with Bioversity international and the support of UNEP, SDC, Ford Foundation and FAO, [...]
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A Marcela Valente article published on Inter Press Service (IPS) News Agency on the need of natural alternatives to toxic pesticides.
This story was originally published on South American newspapers that are part of the Tierramerica Network.
Toxic agrochemicals are one of the major causes of illness and deaths in agricultural areas.
Endosulfan is a very common off-patent organochlorine insecticide still [...]
Tomato/potato psyllid is threatening tamarillo, tomato and potato crops, causing terrible effects on production since it has been established in New Zealand
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Conserving biodiversity while reducing contact with humans can limit the spread of pathogens
An article from naturenews by Natasha Gilbert
Biodiversity protects ecosystems against infectious diseases, researchers have concluded. The finding suggests that loss of species from an environment could have dangerous consequences for the spread and incidence of infections, including those that affect humans.
Felicia Keesing, a [...]
From the first to the third of December the Project Director Devra Jarvis presented the work in Paris at the EUCARPIA 2nd Conference of the “Organic and Low-Input Agriculture” entitled “Breeding for resilience: a strategy for organic and low-input farming systems?”. More information about the conference can be found at the following web site: https://colloque.inra.fr/eucarpia2010_organic_li/Programme.
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On the 20th of November a Policy workshop took place in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China to discuss on policy proposals that ensure the conservation of agricultural biodiversity. The workshop was a follow up of the one which took place in August. At the workshop participated representative of the Ministry of Agriculture, UNEP, Bioversity International from HQ, [...]
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