741) Assessing and Managing the Current and Future Pest Risk from Water Hyacinth Eichhornia crassipes an Invasive Aquatic Plant Threatening the Environment and Water Security

Understanding and managing the biological invasion threats posed by aquatic plants under current and future climates is a growing challenge …

742) IPPC to launch new e-Learning courses in light of COVID-19 pandemic

Rome, 19 March 2021. The pandemic has forced most of us to learn how to make better use of digital …

743) Movement of contaminated sea containers continue to raise international concern

Rome, 18 March 2021. Sea containers has become one of the most engaging topics at the fifteenth session of the …

744) Informal Briefing to Contracting Parties on Moving Forward the IPPC Work Programme during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Throughout the global COVID-19 pandemic, the CPM Bureau and the IPPC Secretariat have been making efforts to advance the IPPC …

745) UK pest status report for Ceratocystis platani

UK pest status report for Ceratocystis platani

746) UK pest status report for Botryosphaeria kuwatsukai

Blister canker of pome fruits Physalospora canker of pome fruits Ring rot of apple Wart bark of apple

747) SPOTLIGHT: Empowering plant health: guidelines for field inspection

Members of the Expert Working Group on Field Inspection, representatives of host country, IPPC Secretariat, Standards Committee (SC) and Implementation …

748) The first IPPC ePhyto workshop for the Southwest Pacific

Participants at the first IPPC ePhyto workshop for the Southwest Pacific held in August 2019. © FAO

749) IPPC community gets ready for the first virtual session of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures

Rome, 11 March 2021. The Secretariat of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) organized two dry-run sessions to prepare contracting …

750) Emergency measures to prevent introduction of Erwinia amylovora through the importation of host plants and plant parts of E. amylovora from the Republic of Korea

E. amylovora is a bacterium that can infect a wide range of plant species and its infection causes serious damage. …