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A global surveillance system for crop diseases: global preparedness minimizes the risk to food supplies

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Title A global surveillance system for crop diseases: global preparedness minimizes the risk to food supplies
 
Creator Carvajal-Yepes, Mónica
Cardwell, K.
Nelson, A.
Garrett, K.A.
Giovani, B.
Saunders, Diane G.O.
Kamoun, S.
Legg, James P.
Verdier, Valerie M.
Lessel, J.
Neher, R.A.
Day, R.
Pardey, P.
Gullino, M.L.
Records, Angela R.
Bextine, B.
Leach, J.E.
Staiger, S.
Tohme, Joseph M.
 
Subject food security
agricultural production
diseases
plant diseases
food safety
 
Description To satisfy a growing demand for food, global agricultural production must increase by 70% by 2050. However, pests and crop diseases put global food supplies at risk. Worldwide, yield losses caused by pests and diseases are estimated to average 21.5% in wheat, 30.0% in rice, 22.6% in maize, 17.2% in potato, and 21.4% in soybean (1); these crops account for half of the global human calorie intake (2). Climate change and global trade drive the distribution, host range, and impact of plant diseases (3), many of which can spread or reemerge after having been under control (4). Though many national and regional plant protection organizations (NPPOs and RPPOs) work to monitor and contain crop disease outbreaks, many countries, particularly low-income countries (LICs), do not efficiently exchange information, delaying coordinated responses to prevent disease establishment and spread. To improve responses to unexpected crop disease spread, we propose a Global Surveillance System (GSS) that will extend and adapt established biosecurity practices and networking facilities into LICs, enabling countries and regions to quickly respond to emerging disease outbreaks to stabilize food supplies, enhancing global food protection.
 
Date 2019-06-28
2019-08-02T14:40:56Z
2019-08-02T14:40:56Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Carvajal-Yepes, M., Cardwell, K., Nelson, A., Garrett, K.A., Giovani, B., Saunders, D.G.O., ... & Tohme, J. (2019). A global surveillance system for crop diseases: global preparedness minimizes the risk to food supplies. Science, 364(6447), 1237-1239.
0036-8075
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/102422
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw1572
PLANT PRODUCTION & HEALTH
 
Language en
 
Rights Copyrighted; all rights reserved
Open Access
 
Format 1237-1239
 
Publisher American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
 
Source Science