08/04/2021
Today, 8 April 2021, the FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, and the President of the Community of Sant’Egidio, Professor Marco Impagliazzo, had a virtual meeting, to exchange on areas of interest for potential cooperation.
Professor Impagliazzo started the encounter by paying tribute to the Director-General’s vision for a renewed FAO that focuses on delivery and impact. He then commended the Director-General for the holistic design and systemic approach of the Hand in Hand Initiative and noted that many school feeding programmes of Sant’Egidio follow the same approach.
The President of the Community of Sant’Egidio presented some highlights of the Community’s work, including the nutritional centres to fight malnutrition of children and provide nutritious food, the schools of peace and the common garden.
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Illustrated children’s book ‘Aphid Attack!’ promotes plant health 17th March 2021
However, a collaboration between one of our PhD students, Josh Joyce, and an illustration student, Lauren Harris continued independently beyond this formal finish and led to an engaging children’s book highlighting the importance of plant health.
The illustrative book tells the story of Billy and his encounter with a plant scientist working to prevent wheat being attacked by aphids.
As part of the International Year of Plant Health, the formal collaboration focused on topics within our Plant Health research programme.
PhD student Josh was one of our researchers who got involved with the project. In February 2020 Josh spoke to second year illustration students about his research. Josh works on investigating how plants respond to insect attack and he focusses on understanding the signalling mechanisms involved in plant defences a
Ensuring plant health in a post-COVID-19 world
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15th session of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures starts today
16 March 2021, Rome: Every year, up to 40 percent of global crop production - worth over $200 billion - is lost to plant pests and diseases.
The 15th Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM-15) - the governing body of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) - began meeting today to set standards to curb the spread of plant pests and review the state of plant health and protection worldwide.
No less than a new international consciousness about plant health is being sought.
In his keynote address at this morning s session, Jari Leppä, Minister for Agriculture and Forestry of Finland said that Humanity is facing a number of existential challenges. [.] It would certainly be my dream that in 30 years time the year 2020 would not only be remembered for the COVID-19 pandemic, but also as the beginning of a new international consciousness about
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