571) Potato brown rot outbreak

Following notification from the Netherlands authorities about clonal links to the seed potatoes, a crop of ware potatoes in Cornwall …

572) African countries harness scientific advances, digital technology, improve technical capacity to prevent plant pests

Cairo, 25 September 2023. Eleven African countries are taking part in a training on advanced plant health science and state-of-the-art …

573) International Plant Health Conference in Helsinki is cancelled amid continued COVID-19 restrictions

Rome/Helsinki, 9 February 2021. On 2 February, representatives of member countries of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), contracting parties …

574) News & Events / Webinars / FAO and COLEACP partnership: New training tools for pest risk analysis and export certification

575) IPPC Focus Group on Safe Provision of Food and Other Humanitarian Aid discusses work programme

Rome, 16 December 2022. The Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM) Focus Group on Safe Provision of Food and Other Humanitarian …

576) Lessons learned and outlooks from the IPPC Secretariat annual meeting

Rome, 28 January 2021. Despite the undeniable difficulties and changes it posed, the strike of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 …

577) Two Million ePhytos Exchanged as Demand Soars

The International Plant Protection Convention's ePhyto Solution has exchanged over 2 million digital phytosanitary certificates or ePhytos from inception to …

578) The 2019 mid-year meeting of the IPPC Secretariat: reviewing key achievements and future plans

The IPPC Secretariat reviewed key achievements for the first half of 2019 and plans for the next semester at their …

579) FAO Deputy Director General officially opens the CPM-16 three-day annual conference

Rome, 5 April 2022 - The sixteenth Session of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM-16) kicked off virtually today. Jingyuan …

580) Impatiens Necrotic Spot Virus (INSV) in New South Wales (NSW)

In January 2018, INSV was detected in lettuce crops at a farm in Elderslie, in the state of NSW. A …