Find out about quarantine organisms harmful to plants, in order to be able to detect them and signal their presence.

 



As part of this International Day, the FPS Public Health invites everyone to join the community of observers on the Observations.be platform now and to find out about quarantine organisms harmful to plants, in order to be able to detect them and signal their presence.

The FPS SCAE, Natagora and Natuurpunt, with the support of the ILVO and the FASFC, have collaborated in the sustainability of the Beware&Note project on the Observations.be platform. This is a notification system for quarantine organisms harmful to plants in Belgium, in order to allow their early detection.

These organisms, not yet or hardly present in the EU, are diseases and pathogens that can cause great economic and ecological damage. In order to prevent the establishment or spread of these organisms, rapid detection, before the organism takes hold, is essential. This alert system allows a high level of surveillance of the territory, by giving the possibility to each citizen to enter reports of these quarantine organisms. Identification sheets for the most important and easily recognizable species are also available on the platform.

According to figures from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), plants represent nearly 80% of the food we eat and at the same time, nearly 40% of food crops are destroyed every year by plant pests or diseases. The FAO also estimates that agricultural production will need to increase by 60% by 2050 in order to continue to feed the growing population. Moreover, climate change threatens to reduce not only the quantity of crops, by reducing yields, but also their nutritional value. Rising temperatures also mean that plant pests and diseases are appearing earlier and in places where they have never appeared before: Keep an eye out!


Protecting plants is protecting life. Plants are a public good that everyone can commit to protecting. Participate, you too, in their protection!


2022 IDPH events by NPPO of Belgium.


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