SPOTLIGHT: How the IPPC Plant Health Campus is shaping the future of global learning — with Sarah Brunel and Cristina Petracchi
Posted on Thu, 26 Jun 2025, 08:31
As a spotlight feature for this month we speak to Sarah Brunel, IPPC Officer in charge for day-t…
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SPOTLIGHT: Ethiopia’s phytosanitary capacity assessment to build stronger systems and accelerate legal reform
Posted on Tue, 17 Jun 2025, 07:40
While Ethiopia has been providing phytosanitary services for over three decades to protect and c…
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SPOTLIGHT: Zimbabwe to combat plant pests with quarantine upgrades
Posted on Tue, 03 Jun 2025, 13:17
Zimbabwe is upgrading its quarantine systems, constructing new border posts and inspection proce…
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SPOTLIGHT: Dominican Republic leads with One Health innovation to safeguard food security
Posted on Mon, 12 May 2025, 16:12
As an island nation deeply reliant on agriculture and tourism, the Dominican Republic faces uniq…
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SPOTLIGHT: As its economy grows, Uganda prepares to increase exports of fresh plant produce
Posted on Tue, 22 Apr 2025, 08:21
Cut flowers, live trees, avocados, bananas, and green chilies. In the last 20 years, Uganda’s ex…
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SPOTLIGHT: Public-private partnership saves South Africa’s fruit industry from the Mediterranean fruit fly
Posted on Tue, 08 Apr 2025, 11:38
For over a decade, South Africa has used a public-private partnership approach to manage the Med…
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Spotlight: IPPC phytosanitary capacity development in action
Posted on Tue, 25 Mar 2025, 08:13
Rome, 20 March 2025. Delegates at the Nineteenth Session of the Commission on P…
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Q&A with Mr. Gregory Wolff, CPM Chairperson (2023-2025)
Posted on Mon, 24 Feb 2025, 10:28
The current Chair of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM) reached out to the Inter…
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SPOTLIGHT: Artificial Intelligence transforms the fight against Fusarium Tropical Race 4 of banana in Mesoamerica
Posted on Mon, 17 Feb 2025, 07:14
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming everyday life; from providing virtual custo…
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SPOTLIGHT: Temarama Anguna- Kamana, incoming CPM Bureau representative for the Southwest Pacific region and One Health and Capacity Development champion
Posted on Fri, 13 Dec 2024, 12:20
As a spotlight feature for this month, we speak to Temarama Anguna-Kamana, Head of the Minis…
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SPOTLIGHT: Barbara Peterson shares her experience, as an in-kind contribution, working at the IPPC Secretariat
Posted on Fri, 29 Nov 2024, 08:00
Josephine Mphozongo (Malawi Department of Agriculture Research Services), Barbara Peterson a…
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SPOTLIGHT: Bridging plant health policy implementation gaps
Posted on Tue, 26 Nov 2024, 12:58
It all starts with healthy plants. Healthy plants are crucial for life on land, particularly in …
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SPOTLIGHT: Adopting and promoting global paperless trade using ePhytos: the experience of the Republic of Korea
Posted on Fri, 18 Oct 2024, 12:27
Article IV of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) mandates national plant prote…
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Spotlight: Thorwald Geuze, from the Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority of the Netherlands, speaks about the importance of e-commerce and IPPC Observatory surveys
Posted on Thu, 03 Oct 2024, 12:30
As a spotlight feature for this month, we speak to Thorwald Geuze, Senior Plant Health Offic…
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