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Food and Agriculture Organization (2017), IPPC Procedure Manual for Standard Setting
… 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 …
An Explanatory Guide to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
… Annex III. desired characteristics, such as resistance to disease, or ability to cope better with specific climatic and … pro- pagation of many varieties enables product- ion of disease free plants which can then be used in agriculture. … similar role to the ICPM, in relation to animal health and disease. The OIE produces and assesses scientific evi- dence …
Document - The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: its History and Development
… Wetlands were considered disastrous realms, sources of disease, obstacles to any form of positive development. … in fear of devastating floods. They were considered to be disease- ridden places, their “bad air” blamed for malaria. … producing large concentrations of waterfowl; controlling disease and parasites; limiting lead-poisoning from spent …