New IPPC document: Climate-change impacts on plant pests: a technical resource to support national and regional plant protection organizations
As climate change is having an impact on ecosystems and agricultural production systems throughout the world, the IPPC Secretariat has recently published a document ‘Climate-change impacts on plant pests: a technical resource to support national and regional plant protection organizations’.
The aim of this document is to provide technical and operational advice to NPPOs and RPPOs on how to effectively assess and manage the pest risk that is a consequence of climate change. It has been prepared by experts of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM) Focus Group on Climate Change and Phytosanitary Issues, with oversight from the CPM Bureau, and it has also been opened to country consultation. The document includes the following chapters:
- Climate-change impacts on plants and plant pests
- Assessment of climate-change impacts on plant health
- Management of climate-change impacts on plant health
- Case studies
This technical resource is freely accessible from the FAO website: https://doi.org/10.4060/cd1615en
Sources
EPPO Secretariat (2024-11).