141) Kenya and the Africa Phytosanitary Programme: Advancing plant health and sustaining safe trade

Nairobi, 10 July 2024. As part of its steadfast efforts to foster plant health and sustainable, safe international trade in …

142) Critical milestone achieved in strengthening phytosanitary capacities across COMESA countries

Rome, 11 October 2024. From 7-11 October 2024, the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Secretariat, in collaboration with COLEAD, organized …

143) IPPC contracting parties pledge USD 1.8 million for plant health as CPM-19 session closes

Rome, 21 March 2025. The annual gathering of the plant health community closed today on a high note, with pledged …

144) SPOTLIGHT: Know your job and be kind. Osama El-Lissy’s message as he retires from the IPPC

Osama El-Lissy is retiring as Secretary of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), an Article XIV body of FAO. He …

145) Orientation session for national plant protection organizations sets the stage for CPM-19

17 March 2025, Rome. To strengthen the implementation of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) and foster the adoption of …

146) 2025-05 IPPC Call for Experts – Technical Panel on Diagnostic Protocols - Virologist

The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Secretariat is soliciting nominations for an appropriately qualified expert in Virology for the Technical …

147) First findings of Dryocosmus kuriphilus in the Czech Republic

Three consignments containing a total of 50 possibly infested plants of Castanea sativa of Italian origin were delivered to the …

148) Download the APP for CPM-19

Rome, 17 March 2025 -The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) in collaboration with the IT department of the Food and …

149) Standards Committee and Standards Committee Working Group approve five standards for consultation

Rome, 16 May 2024. The Standards Committee (SC) and the Standards Committee Working Group (SC-7) of the International Plant Protection …

150) UPDATE pest report June 2016 Identity confirmed: Hemitarsonemus ganeo (fern mite) instead of Hemitarsonemus tepidariorum (pest report March) Wider distribution on ferns outdoors (Polypodium vulgare, Dryopteris carthusiana, Dryopteris filix-mas, and Athyrium filix-femina). Single detection on plants for planting of Platycerium alcicorne (fern plants) in a production greenhouse.

The identity of Hemitarsonemus ganeo could be confirmed on plants for planting of (fern plants) in a production greenhouse, which …