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Science diplomacy for plant health

Nature Plants volume 6, pages 902–905 (2020)Cite this article

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The battle between humans and plant pests is as old as agriculture, but the movement of pests as a consequence of human activities has been exacerbated only recently. International research collaboration is increasingly important to tackle pests causing serious damage to economies.

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  1. European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO)-Euphresco, Paris, France

    Baldissera Giovani & Nico Horn

  2. Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Institute for Sustainable Plant Production, Vienna, Austria

    Sylvia Blümel

  3. Food Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Finland, Helsinki, Finland

    Ralf Lopian

  4. Better Border Biosecurity (B3), Plant and Food Research, Christchurch, New Zealand

    David Teulon

  5. North American Plant Protection Organization (NAPPO), Raleigh, NC, USA

    Stephanie Bloem

  6. Comite Regional de Sanidad Vegetal del Cono Sur (COSAVE), Dirección de Protección Vegetal, del Servicio Nacional y Sanidad Vegetal y Semillas, Asuncion, Paraguay

    Cristina Galeano Martínez

  7. Comunidad Andina (CAN), Secretaría General de la Comunidad Andina, Lima, Peru

    Camilo Beltrán Montoya

  8. Organismo Internacional Regional de Sanidad Agropecuaria (OIRSA), San Salvador, El Salvador

    Carlos Ramon Urias Morales

  9. Asia and Pacific Plant Protection Commission (APPPC), Bangkok, Thailand

    Sridhar Dharmapuri

  10. Pacific Plant Protection Organization (PPPO), Pacific Community Land Resources Division, Suva, Fiji

    Visoni Timote

  11. Near East Plant Protection Organization (NEPPO), Rabat, Morocco

    Mekki Chouibani

  12. African-Union Interafrican Phytosanitary Council (IAPSC), Yaoundé, Cameroon

    Jean Gérard Mezui M’Ella

  13. Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI), Wellington, New Zealand

    Veronica Herrera & Aurélie Castinel

  14. Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE), Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

    Con Goletsos, Carina Moeller & Ian Naumann

  15. European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Parma, Italy

    Giuseppe Stancanelli, Stef Bronzwaer & Sara Tramontini

  16. Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Philip MacDonald & Loren Matheson

  17. French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES), Plant Health Laboratory, Angers, France

    Géraldine Anthoine

  18. Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO), Merelbeke, Belgium

    Kris De Jonghe

  19. Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA), Wageningen, the Netherlands

    Martijn Schenk

  20. Julius Kühn Institute (JKI), Braunschweig, Germany

    Silke Steinmöller

  21. National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA), Madrid, Spain

    Elena Rodriguez

  22. National Institute for Agriculture and Veterinary Research (INIAV), Oeiras, Portugal

    Maria Leonor Cruz

  23. Plant Biosecurity Research Initiative (PBRI), Hort Innovation, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Jo Luck

  24. Plant Health Australia (PHA), Deakin, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

    Greg Fraser

  25. International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy

    Sarah Brunel, Mirko Montuori, Craig Fedchock & Jingyuan Xia

  26. Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), London, UK

    Elspeth Steel & Helen Grace Pennington

  27. Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI), Nairobi, Kenya

    Roger Day

  28. French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), INRA-Montpellier-CBGP, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France

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B.G. wrote the manuscript. S.B., R.L., D.T., S.B., C.G.M., C.B.M., C.R.U.M., S.D., V.T., N.H., M.C., J.G.M.M., V.H., A.C., C.G., C.M., I.N., G.S., S.B., S.T., P.M.D., L.M., G.A., K.D.J., M.S., S.S., E.R., M.L.C., J.L., G.F., S.B., M.M., C.F., E.S., H.G.P., R.D., J.P.R. and J.X. contributed to the manuscript.

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Giovani, B., Blümel, S., Lopian, R. et al. Science diplomacy for plant health. Nat. Plants 6, 902–905 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-0744-x

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