July 2013 Committee Report to the ISPP Executive and Council
Subject Matter Committee:
Biotic Constraints to Food
and Fiber Production
Established:
August 26, 2013
Web
address for SMC: to establish
Name (s) of personnel preparing report. Serge Savary, Chair
Nominated Officers.
To
be identified
Current membership
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Name
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Country (or international organisation)
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e-mail
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Physical address
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Lilian Amorim
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Brazil
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lilian.amorim@usp.br
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Universidade de São Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz
de Queiroz, Departamento de Fitopatologia - ave. Padua Dias 11
Agronomia - 13418-900 -
Piracicaba, SP - Brasil - Caixa-postal:
09
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Didier Andrivon
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France
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Didier.Andrivon@rennes.inra.fr
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Jonathan Atungwu
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IITA
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jojerat1@yahoo.com
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Centre for Community-Based Farming Scheme,
Federal
University of Agriculture, Abeokuta,PMB 2240,
Abeokuta,
Nigeria
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Kira Bowen
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USA
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bowenkl@auburn.edu
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Fen Beed
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IITA
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f.beed@cgiar.org
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IITA,
Tanzania
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Nancy Castilla
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IRRI
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N.Castilla@irri.org
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IRRI
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Emerson Del Ponte
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Brazil
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edelponte@gmail.co
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Universidade Federal do
Rio Grande
do Sul
Porto
Alegre, Brazil
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Etienne Duveiller
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CIMMYT
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E.Duveiller@cgiar.org
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CG Block, National Agricultural
Science
Center (NASC)
Complex
DPS Marg, New Delhi - 110012, India
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Annika Djurle
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Sweden
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Annika.Djurle@slu.se
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Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences,
Dept. of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Box 7026, SE-750
07 UPPSALA,
Sweden
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Matt Dickinson
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United Kingdom
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Matthew.Dickinson@nottingham.ac.uk
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School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton
Bonington Campus, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK, LE12 5RD
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Paul D Esker
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Costa Rica
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PAUL.ESKER@ucr.ac.cr
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Escuela de Agronomía, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro
Montes de Oca, San José Costa Rica
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Richard Falloon
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New Zealand
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Richard.Falloon@plantandfood.co.nz
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Andrea Ficke
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Norway
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Andrea.Ficke@bioforsk.no
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Bioforsk Plantehelse
Høgskoleveien 7, 1432,
Ås, Norway
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Greg Forbes
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CIP
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g.forbes@cgiar.org
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CIP,
12 Zhongguancun South St.,
Beijing, China,
100081
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Clayton Hollier
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USA
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CHollier@agcenter.lsu.edu
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Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, 302 Life
Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA
70803,
USA
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Wafaa El Khoury
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IFAD
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w.elkhoury@ifad.org
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Senior Technical Advisor- Crops and Farming Systems
Policy & Technical Advisory Division,
Programme Management Department, Via Paolo di Dono 44, 00142 Rome, Italy.
Tel. +39 06 5459 2817
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J. Kumar
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India
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jkumar56@gmail.com
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Zanhong Ma
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China
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mazh@cau.edu.cn
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Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University,
No.2 Yuanmingyuan West Road,
Haidian district,
Beijing, 100193
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A. Murillo Williams
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Costa Rica
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adriana.murillowilliams@gmail.com
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Neil McRoberts
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USA
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nmcroberts@ucdavis.edu
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Lise Nisltrup Jørgensen
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Denmark
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LiseN.Jorgensen@agrsci.dk
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Lee Pearson
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UK
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L.Pearson10@imperial.ac.uk
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Centre for Environmental Policy, Faculty of Natural Sciences,
Imperial
College London
South Kensington,
London, SW7 2NA
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Serge Savary
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France
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Serge.Savary@toulouse.inra.fr
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INRA-AGIR, 24 Chemin de Borde Rouge, Auzeville, CS52627,
F-31326 Castanet-Tolosan cedex,
France
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Peter Scott
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Cabi
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p.scott@cabi.org
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CABI, UK
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Adam Sparks
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IRRI
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A.Sparks@irri.org
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IRRI
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Richard Strange
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University
London
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R.Strange@sbc.bbk.ac.uk
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63, Foxley Lane Purley,
Surrey
CR8 3EH, UK
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Paul S Teng
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Singapore
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paul.teng@nie.edu.sg
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Luo Yong
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USA
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ygluo@ucanr.edu
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University
of California, Kearney Agricultural Center,
9240 S. Riverbend Ave.,
Parlier, CA 93648
USA
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Dr. Yilin Zhou
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China
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yilinzhou6@yahoo.com.cn
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State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect
Pests, Institute of
Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,
Beijing 100193,
P. R. China
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Committee
Meetings:
The first meeting of the Subject Matter Committee is scheduled on August
26, 2013.
A tentative agenda has been submitted, as follows:
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Linkage with the ISPP
Food Security Taskforce
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Linkages with other
ISPP Committees
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Importance of the
Committee
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Importance of
pre-harvest losses
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Is there a need for a
review of the current information on pre-harvest losses?
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Overall
positioning of the Committee
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Review, comments,
and/or approval of the Concept Note presenting the Subject Matter
Committee (to be posted on ISPP website)
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Should post-harvest
losses be addressed by the Committee?
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Should overall waste
of positive agricultural outputs (especially food) be considered by the
Committee?
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Main directions
the Committee should take
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Action plan
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Discuss a few (2 – 3)
actionable ideas
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Identify champions
for these ideas
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Other Matters
(including next meeting of the Subject Matter Committee)
Committee Activities:
The activities of the newly formed SMC will be determined during this
meeting (and in close linkage with discussions within the Global Food
Security Taskforce).
Subject Matter Committee focus issues:
A first task of the SMC will be to develop a concept note to identify
its importance and specify its scope. The following draft has been
circulated and will be discussed.
DRAFT
Thursday 27 June 2013
ISPP Subject Matter Committee
"Biotic Constraints to Food and Fiber Production"
This new ISPP Subject Matter Committee on Biotic
Constraints to Food and Fibre Production complements existing ISPP
Committees, and will especially strive to provide the strongest possible
support to the existing Task Force on Global Food Security. This new
Committee will address crop losses in its broadest possible meaning.
The consequences of crop losses have many dimensions,
direct and indirect, quantitative and qualitative. Crop losses caused by
poor crop health represent threats for global food security and safety,
which must be documented in order to be suitably addressed.
The multidimensional quantification of crop losses, in
itself, is a critical field of investigation. One of the aims the new
Committee could be to establish a global database on crop losses. This
could be achieved in several phases, focusing, for example, on a few key
crops, on a few world eco-regions, and/or on quantitative aspects first.
The goal of the data base is not to simply be built, however, but to be
used. The Millenium Ecosystem Assessment may provide some inspiration,
and multidisciplinary systems analysis will provide inspiration for its
use.
Quantifying crop losses should be seen as a starting
point of the Subject Matter Committee on Biotic Constraints to Food and
Fibre Production. Beyond the massive, immediate, impact of direct crop
losses, the consequences of indirect crop losses are considerable,
translating in:
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increased vulnerability of agricultural systems and societal fabrics
from a social and economic point of view, at different scales, from the
producer to the global market, and
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reduced ecosystem services, since each unit of untaken harvest
corresponds to a commensurate waste of energy, water, know-how,
biodiversity, culture, top-soil, inputs, and more generally,
non-renewable resources.
Another task of the Committee on Biotic Constraints to
Food and Fibre Production could be to develop a list of the above hidden
components of losses. Next steps would involve their quantification, and
their ranking depending on crops production situations.
This would pave the way towards general frameworks for
multi-criteria crop health management strategies, and decision
components for sustainable crop health management.
The understanding of processes associated with poor
crop health and leading to crop losses also contributes to one of the
main goals of the ISPP and its Task Force on Global Food Security:
identifying scenarios for future crop health and their crop loss
consequences in a changing world, as well as the means to limit crop
losses.
More generally, the Committee on Biotic Constraints to
Food and Fibre Production should aim at more than just crop loss
assessment, but position crop health in a broader matrix, which involves
the economic, psychological, environmental and social sciences. This
would enable the new committee to complement existing ones. Important
links include strategic-long term assessments enabling policies and
research priorities, as well as decision making for IPM.
Additional work identified:
this will be done during the SMC meeting and through e-mail exchanges.
Submitted by Serge Savary, SMC Chair,
Serge.Savary@toulouse.inra.fr