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… licences to grow certain crops, the need to use pest or disease-resistant seeds and the establishment of research … against pests and diseases (especially the coffee berry disease in East Africa, the cadang-cadang disease of coconuts in the Pacific and diseases of wheat in …

… food preferences of populations. Plant pest and disease outbreaks have caused massive food shortages and … people died because of the famine. The Potato late blight disease caused by Phytophthora infestans, a pest that is … 4, causing the Banana fusarium wilt, also known as Panama disease. Any reduction in banana production through pests in …

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

… cause a severe food crisis. That was the case of a potato disease called “a late blight of potato” caused by a fungus …

… if insects may be considered vectors of quarantined disease-causing agents it may not be prudent to accept live … Plant Protection Convention T P P T to control pests and disease organisms in straw and other durable non-food items … to rise. The killer fungus, Ug99, causes stem rust disease, which can destroy entire wheat fields. Two new …

… result of an IPPC-developed treatment to prevent a pest or disease from coming along for the ride. For that matter, even …