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Mapping pest and disease threats in a climate crisis
A CGIAR-led network has mapped priority areas for pest and disease detection and response across the Global South, in preparation for climate threats.
Climate change is predicted to drive an increase in pest and disease outbreaks, which already impact global food security and cost more than $220 billion a year. Bringing together a network of plant health specialists and social scientists from 26 countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean, the CGIAR Initiative on Plant Health identified major research and capacity gaps of National Plant Protection Organizations (NPPOs), the main bodies responsible for outbreak response, and planned ways to address them through a Global South plant health diagnostic and surveillance network.
The unprecedented mapping exercise sets the agenda for developing and sharing knowledge in preparedness for emerging pests and diseases.
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Reaching millions with climate tips via reality TV in Zambia
Doubling climate mitigation via national policy in Viet Nam
Boosting climate resilience for 20,000 farmers in Guatemala
Making vital climate connections for 160 million in the Niger Basin
Growing 25% more wheat with climate tools in Ethiopia