Working group participants: Fen Beed and Jeff Daniells + sometimes Inge Van denBergh
Research outputs
- national, regional, continental and global disease distribution maps
- diagnostic tool kits for lab and field (factsheet, diagnostic keys, manuals, serological and molecularmethods)
- agreed contingency plans to limit exotic disease outbreaks
- establishment of protocols for management of endemic diseases
- technical capacity created for disease diagnostics and reporting for research, extension and regulators
- increasing awareness and advocacy to create an enabling policy environment
- institutional strengthening and linkages to create a functional network to implement quarantine measures
- create responsive extension system (mobile phones and plant clinics etc...)
- create and manage knowledge database
- develop risk assessment criteria for introduction of exotic and management of endemic diseases to guide
- target areas surveillance, to refine mitigation strategies based on critical control points as influenced by
- cultivation and trade parameters
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