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… hazards are responsible for about a quarter of disease worldwide. It is estimated that as many as 13 million … 17 children under the age of five, one third of all disease is caused by environmental factors such as unsafe … by increasing risks of flood, drought, crop failure, or disease.18 Figure 1: Health implications of environmental …

… chemicals already in the environment, e.g. pesticides, or disease outbreaks after natural disasters. Investing in … underwater noise, ship strikes, poisoning, pollution, disease, invasive species, illegal and unsustainable take and … preamble recognizes the substantial lessons of Minamata Disease, in particular the serious health and environmental …

… of public funds, compared with managing that pest or disease in perpetuity after it becomes established. The …

… that the variety carries genes that are resistant to many disease causing fungi. It has since been used as a source of … of resistance to rhizomania, a devastating sugar-beet root disease. Meanwhile, it was found that the collections also … local conditions and that exhibit resistances to blast disease were multiplied and distributed to over 1000 …

… will limit the production and use of DDT to controlling disease vectors such as malarial mosquitoes; it also allows … and use of DDT for controlling mosquitoes and other disease vectors in accordance with World Health Organization …

… in a timeframe of 2-3 years since its adoption. 9 Minamata Disease is a serious and irreversible neurological syndrome … and, in extreme cases, paralysis and death. Minamata Disease was named after the Japanese city that was the centre … people died in 1956, the year the �rst cases of the disease were detected. More than 111 casualties and 400 cases …

… by pedigree, or contributed a significant trait, such as disease resistance, to a resultant commercial cultivar, then … ES_PGRFS_ch_9.indd 1 26/06/2011 13:42 day, with pest and disease outbreaks and climate change, highlighting the … was brought to a halt by taro leaf blight (TLB), a disease caused by the fungus, Phythphthora colocasiae. Taro …

… on from mothers to children – infants were "born" with the disease. New cases continued to appear into the 1980s. There … killing or repelling the mosquitoes that spread malaria, a disease that annually kills 1 million children under the age …

… that can enhance their productivity or resilience to disease. • In non-commercial use, genetic resources can be …