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… 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 …

… the atmospheric contamination contributes to respiratory disease. Mercury containing hospital products that are … substances, in particular asbestos, which can cause lung disease. The poor, and particularly women, children and the … are ambitious, and include curbing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and …

… now forms the basis on which modern high-yielding and disease-resistant varieties are being produced.3 Indeed, … the genes from CWR, many useful traits, such as pest and disease resistance, abiotic stress tolerance or quality … th e In te rn at io na l T re at y M O D U LE II 8 fungal disease Black Sigatoka, and cotton crop by Cotton Leaf Curl …

… Development Goals (MDGs), to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and … healthier. In some countries, more than one third of the disease burden could be prevented through environmental … main victims and make up 74% of deaths due to diarrhoeal disease and lower respiratory infections. Low income …

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

… limits the production and use of DDT to controlling disease vectors such as malarial mosquitoes in accordance … limits the production and use of DDT to controlling disease vectors such as malarial mosquitoes in accordance … and use of DDT for controlling mosquitoes and other disease vectors in accordance with World Health Organization …

… 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 …

… Protect water channels and shores from erosion n Regulate disease-carrying organisms n Provide ingredients for …

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

… crop varieties that promote productivity and resistance to disease that can only be maintained with the continuous input …