Plant Health
The CGIAR Initiative on Plant Health aims to protect key crops from pest incursions and disease outbreaks, reducing crop losses from pests and diseases using eco-friendly approaches, helping target countries realize their potential in the agricultural sector, and boosting food, feed, nutritional security and livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers and consumers.
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publicationGenetic analyses of tropical maize lines under artificial infestation of fall armyworm and foliar diseases under optimum conditions
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publicationMaize Lethal Necrosis (MLN) – Prevention and management
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publicationMaize Lethal Necrosis (MLN): a technical manual for disease management
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Global Plant Health Assessment. An international peer‐reviewed evaluation of the state of plant health across ecoregions of the world, and of the effects of plant disease on ecosystem services
01.01.22
Where We Work
While this Initiative is global in its outlook, it will work in the countries below as a priority, from which lessons of global application will be extracted.
- Ethiopia
- Kenya
- Lebanon
- Mexico
- Nigeria
- Peru
- The Philippines
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Vietnam
Partners
Partnerships are essential to the success of the Plant Health Initiative. The Initiative will engage a wide range of partners supporting demand, innovation, and scaling, including academic, training and research partners; private sector partners; government and other public sector partners; multilateral organizations; foundations; international, regional, national and local NGOs; and public-private partnerships.
The Plant Health Initiative is implemented by several CGIAR Centers together with national, regional and international partners.
