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International Pest Control β January/February 2024 β Vol 66, Nr.1
AI to predict yields, ag tech to cut billions of tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, a database to help the understanding of the problems of European forests, a futuristic agricultural solar park β agri-PV β and NASA spotting grape disease from space before it is spotted on the ground. There seems no end to the […]
International Pest Control β November/December 2023 β Vol 65, Nr.6
βFor far too long, malaria has threatened the lives of billions of people across the globe, disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable amongst us.β So says Adar Poonawalla, CEO of the Serum Institute of India heralding a milestone in the control of the disease – the introduction of the second ever WHO recommended vaccine for malaria […]
International Pest Control β September/October 2023 β Vol 65, Nr.5
βIn a world of plenty, it is outrageous that people continue to suffer and die from hunger. Starving food systems of investment means, quite literally, starving people.β UN Secretary General AntΓ³nio Guterresβ words, opening the UN Food Systems Summit. In September 2015 the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) were adopted and December 2015 saw the […]
International Pest Control β July/August 2023 β Vol 65, Nr.4
At a time when many parts of Europe and North America are βboilingβ or burning, other parts of the world are submerged under water and the Atlantic to the west of Ireland is suffering a Marine Heatwave classified by NOAA as Category 5 (βBeyond Extremeβ) with sea surface temperatures as high as 4-5Β°C above average, […]
International Pest Control β May/June 2023 β Vol 65, Nr.3
Europeans could get away with using 71% less land to grow our food if we reduce our consumption of animal products by 50% according to the latest research from WUR. Milk and fish would still be on the menu but beef and pork would disappear. And climate change β about which we have a new […]
International Pest Control β March/April 2023 β Vol 65, Nr.2
With fewer pesticides available – either because they have been withdrawn or banned or because of pest resistance – a new approach based on targeting genes may be both selective and a way of avoiding the build-up of resistance, but we are still a long way from the field! We look at research to silence […]
International Pest Control β January/February 2023 β Vol 65, Nr.1
We seem to lurch from one food crisis to another and we report on the plea from Alvaro Lario, President of the UNβs IFAD for real investment in the worldsβ small scale farmers who produce one third of the worldβs food with just 2% of global finance. Twitter is being used to track pests, but […]
International Pest Control β November/December 2022 β Vol 64, Nr.6
Climate Change is very much on the agenda as I write this with COP27 in progress and everyone pessimistic about the outcome β I hope they are wrong! The global food system is responsible for between 21% and 37% of global emissions. In Europe it is only 10% of total emissions but a significant proportion […]