Plants are the source of air we breathe and over 80 % of the food we consume. They play a critical role in achieving sustainable and competitive agriculture and forestry sectors and the protection of biodiversity and ecosystems. Therefore, keeping plants healthy is not only important – it is abs...
La sanidad vegetal es un término amplio para designar nuevos riesgos, como las plagas, las enfermedades, las malas hierbas, la gestión integrada de plagas y la innovación en la protección fitosanitaria. Potencialmente, puede contribuir al objetivo más general de garantizar la sostenibilidad de l...
Plant health is of crucial importance for sustainable agriculture, food security and environmental protection. It is constantly exposed to new and emerging risks, resulting from the rapidly increasing global trade in plants and plant products and climate change, and illustrated by the frequent f...
The Canopy Health Monitoring (CanHeMon) project ran at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission from mid-2015 to mid-2018 and was funded by DG SANTE. Its aim was to develop and implement remote-sensing based monitoring of a section of the Pine Wood Nematode buffer zone to support the...
The report evaluates the annual survey results in Member States for longhorn beetles, which are very harmful pests of deciduous trees and shrubs, and presents updated situation of their outbreaks and interceptions. It presents the annual survey activities and results and update of situation of o...
The purpose of this Opinion is to assess potential risks to human health and the environment from the use of calcium cyanamide as fertiliser. Where appropriate, data on hydrogen cyanamide were also considered as this substance is a primary intermediate formed by the degradation of calcium cyanam...
This report evaluates the annual survey results in Member States for longhorn beetles, which are very harmful pests of deciduous trees and shrubs. The report presents the annual survey activities and results, and an update on the outbreak situation, including control measures taken or planned fo...
