ISPP Subject Matter Committee: Crop Losses

Chair Address, Phone/Mobile, Email	Andrea Ficke Department of Fungal Diseases, Division of Biotechnology and Plant Health, Norwegian Institute for Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO) Tel.: 0047 92431557 Email: andrea.ficke@nibio.no, www.purpest.eu
Co-chair Address, Phone/Mobile, Email	Serge Savary INRA-AGIR, 24 Chemin de Borde Rouge, Auzeville, CS52627, F-31326 Castanet-Tolosan cedex, France, Email: Serge.Savary@inra.fr   Neil Roberts Quantitative Biology & Epidemiology Research Group, Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, California, USA, Email: nmcroberts@ucdavis.edu
Established	The ISPP Crop Loss Subject Matter Committee was created at the ICPP Congress of Beijing, August 26, 2013.
Objectives/Focus issues of the SMC	A key focus and global issue that the SMC addresses is the absence of a global, open, collaborative repository of crop loss data. This is a major obstacle for fact-based Science and research prioritization in plant pathology (and in the plant sciences in general). Activities of the SMC are meant to mobilize the scientific community on this challenge. Assessing, understanding and communicating losses due to diseases is essential to prioritize research in those areas that are most relevant to advance the impact of plant pathology.
About the SMC	The SMC Crop Losses was established at the ICPP 2013, in Beijing in order to make losses due to diseases a central topic in the global scientific community (Education, Research, and Extension). Over the past decade, the ISPP Crop Losses subject matter committee has been able to conduct two, global, networked activities on the impacts of diseases and on the losses caused by plant pathogens
Coming events (next workshops/meetings)	For the end of 2025: Symposium on Assessment methods for Losses due to plant pests and diseases.
Past events	Members of the Crop Loss SMC have met at the Congresses of Beijing (2013), Boston (2018) and Lyon (2023). During these meetings, collective work on crop loss data, data analysis, and syntheses have been discussed.
Committee Activities	Organization of International Symposium on Crop Losses. The merger of the ISPP Crop Loss SMC with the ISPP Postharvest Pathology SMC to a new SMC called “Pre- and Post-Harvest Pathology and Losses” was discussed during the committee meeting in Lyon (2023), but has not been pursued. Memebers of the SMC will participate and meet during the  workshop on the GPHA, phase two – Future Plant Health is taking place in Toulouse between the 20-22nd of November, 2024. A web-based global, open, collaborative repository of crop loss data has been discussed and initiated during the ICPP meeting in Lyon. A symposium on Assessment methods for Losses due to plant pests and diseases is planned to be organized.
Reports	Report 2018-2023:  ISPP SMC Report 2023 Crop Loss Report 2013-2018: ISPP SMC Report 2018 Crop Loss Report 2008-2013: ISPP SMC Report 2013 Crop Loss
CURRENT Committee Members	Adriana Murillo Williams Costa Rica Penn State U. Emerson Del Ponte Brazil University of Viçosa Wopke van der Werf The Netherlands Wageningen U. Adam Sparks Australia Dept of Primary Industries and Regional Development's Agriculture and Food division, Western Australia Andrea Ficke Norway NiBio Annika Djurle Sweden SLU Clayton Hollier USA Louisiana State University Didier Andrivon France INRA Etienne Duveiller Belgium Former DDG-Research, AfricaRice. Independent Consultant, Research for Development Agri-food Systems J. Kumar India U. Pantnagar Jonathan Atungwu IITA U. Abeokuta Kira Bowen USA Auburn U. Lilian Amorim Brazil ESALQ Lise Nisltrup Jørgensen Denmark Aarhus University Luo Yong USA U. California, Riverside Matt Dickinson United Kingdom University of Nottingham, Nancy Castilla IRRI IRRI Neil McRoberts USA UC Davis Paul D Esker USA PennState U. Paul S Teng Singapore Nanyang U. Serge Savary France INRA Zanhong Ma China China Agricultural University Alberto Santini Italy Italy   Wafaa El Khoury IFAD Wopke van der Werf T    he Netherlands Yilin Zhou China      Lava Kumar Nigeria     Federica Bove Italy   Laetitia Willocquet France INRA Larry V. Madden USA Ohio State U. Lee Pearson UK Imperial College Lise Korsten South Africa University of Pretoria Mike Jeger UK Imperial College London Paul Melloy Australia University of Queensland Salina Banu Bangladesh BARI Tito Caffi Italy U. Piacenza Umesh Singh IRRI IRRI - India Vittorio Rossi Italy U. Piacenza
Publications	Savary, S., Willocquet, L., Pethybridge, S.J., Esker, P., McRoberts, N. and Nelson, A., 2019. The global burden of pathogens and pests on major food crops. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3(3):430-439.