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Contributing to the Long-Term Goal of Ensuring Plant Health Globally - GCP/GLO/424/EC

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Project's full title Contributing to the Long-Term Goal of Ensuring Plant Health Globally - GCP/GLO/424/EC
Start date 01/07/2022
End date 31/12/2022
Status Closed
Donor European Union
Budget USD 301 020
Project Code GCP/GLO/424/EC
Objective / Goal The IPHC aimed to provide, for the first time, a forum to discuss global scientific, technical and regulatory plant health issues in a conference setting and, at the same time, to advocate plant health to the media and general public.
Covering a broad spectrum of plant health, the conference was oriented towards attaining the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular those relevant to ending poverty, (SDG 1) ending hunger (SDG 2), combating climate change (SDG 13) and protecting and restoring forests and ecosystems (SDG 15). The conference helped to maximize public attention and mainstream plant health policies into United Nations discussions by promoting key messages on plant health, such as compliance with international plant health standards, investment in plant health capacity development, research and outreach and strengthened monitoring and early warning systems.
Partners International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Secretariat, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (DEFRA).
Beneficiaries Contracting parties of the IPPC, including national plant protection organizations and other relevant public institutions, as well as the private sector, non-governmental organizations, consumers and policy-makers.
Activities
  • The project ensured the attendance at the IPHC of over 500 attendees from 74 countries, increasing awareness among the public and policy-makers of the importance of healthy plants and the need to protect them in order to achieve the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
  • Across 20 sessions, delegates and more than 120 speakers shared knowledge and discussed global scientific, technical and regulatory issues, together with actions to tackle these existential threats to society, the economy and the environment.
  • Focus placed on three specific thematic topics, one for each day of the conference, namely plant health and food security (Day 1), plant health and environmental protection (Day 2) and plant health and safe trade (Day 3).
  • Robust communication plan produced for the conference, as a result of which over 1 350 viewers watched conferences sessions via webcast, 55 research posters were submitted (including 30 from early-career researchers), while almost 65 million readers were reached by media material on the conference.
  • Joint editorial piece published by the IPPC Secretary and DEFRA’s Chief Plant Health Officer.
Impact The expected impact of the project was to contribute to the long-term goal of ensuring plant health globally, with special focus on developing countries, with plants especially protected from pests and diseases and from the impacts of climate change.
Contact AropDeng (Lead Technical Officer) - [email protected]
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