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The fall armyworm menace cost African farmers 40 per cent of their harvest in 2018. Amid COVID-19 spread, …
Phys.Org https://phys.org/news/2020-02-africa-neonicotinoid-insecticides.html
by Peter McGrath, Michael Norton, and Nina Hobbhahn, The Conversation
First marketed in the late 1990s, neonicotinoid insecticides have become the world's most widely …
The Guardian https://guardian.ng/features/agro-care/nigeria-other-african-countries-lose-200b-to-plant-pests-diseases-yearly/
• 40% Of Crops Lost To Plant Pests, Diseases Yearly—FAO • Contributes To Economic Losses In Sub-Saharan Africa—IITA • UN …
Daily Monitor https://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Farming/farmers-control-cassava-diseases-/689860-4994670-ut5t5r/index.html
The Invasives Blog https://blog.invasive-species.org/2018/07/27/fall-armyworm-is-here-to-stay-but-we-can-manage/
| By Donna Hutchinson |
By Roger Day. Reblogged from Fall Armyworm Tech Prize
In 1996 in response to the first international meeting …
Speed read …
University of Bristol http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2017/december/connected-conference-.html A major new project aimed at tackling the devastation caused by plant disease in Africa will be launched when world-class scientists and researchers …
The Conversation https://theconversation.com/ why-african-farmers-should- balance-pesticides-with-other- control-methods-93289 From the Plantwise Blog
Esther Ndumi Ngumbi is a 2015 Food Security Fellow with the New Voices, Aspen Institute
Many thanks to John Wightman for sending this to Pestnet
Recently GMWatch reported on attempts by the GMO lobby to persuade African …
CABI Invasive blog https://blog.invasive-species.org/2018/05/30/parthenium-controlling-the-worlds-most-destructive-toxic-weed/#more-1914
Will Holland
The poisonous Parthenium hysterophorusplant is one of the world’s most destructive invasive plant …