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Plantwise & NPPOs:Building Linkages

Interfaces between Plantwise & IPPC

9th Session of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures

FAO, Rome, Italy2 April 2014

Lose less, feed more

A key objective of Plantwise:

Support smallholder farmers with accessible, practical knowledge, so they can help themselves to lose less of what they grow and produce more food for their families

The IPPC and Plantwise have shared goals that they are working to support in different ways. There is complementarity between the two.

Protecting the world’s plant resources from pests

A key objective of IPPC:

Protect sustainable agriculture and enhance global food security by preventing pest spread through activities such as information exchange on pest problems

PlantwiseFacilitates linkages between key actors in a plant health system

Establishes national networks of plant clinics to provide regular advice to

farmers facilitate pest vigilance through

collection and use of plant clinic data

Provides a knowledge bank for pest distribution, diagnosis, and management

PW Implementation 2014

AfricaBurkina FasoDR CongoEthiopiaGhanaKenyaMalawiMozambiqueRwandaSierra LeoneTanzaniaUgandaZambia

South AsiaBangladeshIndiaNepalSri Lanka

Central & West Asia

PakistanAfghanistan

Southeast Asia

CambodiaVietnamThailandMyanmar

East AsiaChina

Caribbean & Central America

Costa RicaNicaraguaHondurasBarbadosGrenadaTrinidad & TobagoSuriname

South America

BoliviaPeruBrazil (CABI member countries in blue)

GloballyRegionally

RPPOs

IPPC & Plantwise: Working together to extend the flow of information

Plant Health System

NPPO

Extension

Farmers

Input supply

Research

Nationally

Plantwise can potentially assist NPPOs in fulfilling their obligations under the IPPC

Key interfaces

1. Linking stakeholders

2. Knowledge Bank

3. Plant clinic data

Plantwise in support of NPPOs

1. Linking stakeholdersWith national governments as the key partner, Plantwise strengthens national plant health systems by linking stakeholders:

extension servicesplant protection services (NPPO)diagnostic/research servicesagro-input suppliersfarmers, community-based organisationspost-secondary educational institutionsNGOs

Strong plant health system stakeholders will better support NPPOs

2. Knowledge Bank Provides tools & information, including:

Pest alerts from the literature

Lists of pests occurring in countries

Distribution maps

Collated plant health news

www.plantwise.org/KnowledgeBank

Clinic data can be used to:

Identify major crops and diseases and their distribution

Identify new and emerging diseases (disease vigilance)

Shape priorities for extension

Understand farmers’ problems, perceptions and knowledge

Identify needs for further research

Held in the access controlled part of the knowledge bank

3. Plant clinic data

Plantwise Policies

Seven Plantwise policies, including:

Use of Plant Clinic Data

Options for national partners, particularly NPPOs, to decide on the extent to which plant clinic data are shared through the Plantwise knowledge bank

open versus restricted access

Plantwise Policies

Pest Reports

Appropriate publishing of potentially sensitive pest information following the IPPC standards for pest reporting

Open communication with NPPOs on the pest information posted in the Plantwise knowledge bank

Official pest reporting following ISPM 17 is encouraged

Where we want to goImproved sharing of pest data and information flow

Improved national stakeholder partnering to work together as PHS to ensure fulfilment of reporting obligations under the IPPC

Enhanced access to pest information enabling plant health system of countries to effectively address pest problems

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Ministry of Agriculture, People’s Republic of

China

Thank you

We wish to acknowledge the support of our donors, as well as our national and international partners who make Plantwise possible

The IPPC and Plantwise

IPPC Secretariat

03 April 2014Rome, Italy

History

CABI-Plantwise is a “new” development

Large programme (diagnosis to reporting)

Was mostly extension and research centric

Potential to interfere with the IPPC process• concern expressed by some IPPC CPs

Willingness to change - now involving NPPOs

Secretariat working with CABI

IPPC

Ensure it does not interfere with the IPPC process

IPPC processes potentially affected

• Pest reporting• Pest status• Surveillance• PRA• Regulated pest list• Emergency action / measures

IPPCPlantwise or CABI cannot report on behalf of IPPC

contracting partners

Knowledge bank = unofficial in terms of IPPC

CP / NPPO responsibility

IPPC contact point / pest reporting

NPPOsCan directly affect NPPO IPPC obligations (NROs) and tradeEarly involvement – be proactiveNeed for verification

• surveillance• diagnostics

Possibly emergency responseAdditional source of information

• monitoring

IPPC Plantwise Workshop

Address the involvement of the IPPC

NPPO, research and extension together

Very useful

Reluctance and enthusiasm

Lessons learnt

Not going to be easy

Timeliness

Define areas of legal and operational responsibility

Verification very important

Potential to feed data into a number of IPPC processes

Future

Work in progressPotential benefits if we learn to work togetherSynergiesPlanningDo it properly

• Increase efficiency and effectiveness• Increased timeliness• Improved reliability

THANK YOU

FOR YOUR

ATTENTION

CPM9 SIDE EVENT; PLANTWISE AND NPPOs BUILDING LINKAGES, WEDNESDAY APRIL 2ND 2014

ROME ITALY

Linkages of NPPO’s National Reporting

Obligations with Plantwise Activities

Background Plantwise activities started in 2012 in

Uganda Coverage - 45Local governments

(Extension), National Research Systems (ZONAL), Training Institutions (1. University), NPPO (Regulators Plant health)

Stakeholders roles include; Regulations, extension, research and Training, Supply Agro-input,

Inter-linkages of the stakeholders

NPPO

Roles of each stakeholderNPPO

Data management and custody of data bank

Start up kits and support to Local Governments (LGs)

Regulation of agro-input dealers (registration, import authorization, etc

Plant doctor training

Diagnostics support – national referral laboratory (confirmatory tests,

identification)

Research & Training InstitutionsPlant doctor training

Technical backstopping (intense training in pest identification,

diagnosis etc

Extension materials development

Diagnostic support – national & zonal referral laboratories

Stakeholder roles c’dNAADS (National Agricultural Advisory Services)

Staff to implement Plant Clinics (Service provision, SMS)

Financial support to PCs (Funds available to facilitate activities

Monitoring and evaluation

NGOs

Financial support to plant clinics and plant

doctor training

Monitoring and evaluation

Local governments Implementation of plant clinics

Identify Staff for training

National data flow and management

NGO NGO

Plant clinic data usageData collected at plant clinic, Zonal

centers, referral diagnostic labs Data includes- endemic pests and disease,

new emerging pests, diagnosed by plant doctors/laboratories, epidemic reports from LGs

Data is collected and managed at NPPO level (National information portal) and this informs surveillance

Validation is done by a team of experts from the NPPO

Diagnostic referral and feedback system

FarmersPlant clinic

Zonal diagnosti

c labs

National referral

(University

Research, NPPO

NPPO

Aims and plansOverall aimsImprove the national reporting obligations as required by

IPPCImprove the phytosanitary capacity of the national

protection organizationPlans Update of regulated pest list and onward reporting to IPPCUpdate pest distribution maps and upload on national web

portalUpdate the national regulation for export and import of

plants, plant products and other regulated articlesUpgrade the national diagnostic capabilities Establish strong linkages with all the relevant stakeholders

mentioned above.

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Plantwise linkages

with the

Sri Lankan NPPO

P. T. BandaraNational Coordinator

Permanent Crop Clinic Programme

The Sri Lankan National Plant Protection Organisation

• Functions of NPPO re-organised recently since April 2013

• Presently activities of the NPPO are shared between two divisions of Department of Agriculture

• External Plant Qurantine is overseen by NPQS (Natioinal Plant Qurantine Service)

• Internal Plant Qurantine is overseen by PPS

(Plant Protection Service)

Organisation of the Plantwise programme in Sri Lanka

Who is involved?• National Responsible Organization - Plant Protection Service

(PPS), Sri Lanka • Crop clinic coordination

• Local Implementation Organization - Provincial & Inter Provincial Extension Service of the DOA

• Provide staff and basic resources for implementation of crop clinics

• Training of “Plant Doctors” – PPS & National Trainers

• Diagnostic Support – HORDI, FCRDI, RRDI and their Regional Research Stations, Universities, RRI, CRI, TRI, SRI, DEA, DNBG

• Development of Extension Materials- PPS and National Trainers, supplemented by other technical units of DOA

Linkages between Plantwise & the NPPO

How does Plantwise fit in with other extension and NPPO activities?

• Crop clinics are used as one of the main tools for extension activities

• Crop clinics serve as the source of information to the farmers which prevents indiscriminate pesticide use and promoting IPM practices

• As Crop Clinics cover the whole country, it is equivalent to having a surveillance system to detect any new or resurgence of quarantine pest

• Helps in developing spatial distribution map for pests

• Facilitates declaration of pest free areas

How are the data from the crop clinics being collated and used? • District coordinators has been appointed by the national

coordinator in concurrence with Provincial heads to collect data

• Collected data is sent to NRO data management unit

• Data manager & support staff do the translation and entry into electronic format (POMS)

• Data harmonised, validated and analysed.

• Data will provide spatial distribution of pests which will aid in early management of pest

Is the NPPO involved?• Yes, PPS (NRO) is part of NPPO

Support to the NPPODoes crop clinic data provide the NPPO useful information on pest status?

• Crop clinic data provide updated information on pest status

• Surveillance of pest developments (identifying trends in pest occurrence)

Is crop clinic data useful for pest vigilance?

• Development of early warning system

Challenges the NPPO has faced in working with Plantwise & How have these challenges been addressed• Providing diagnostic services to clinics can be a challenge

• Strengthen linkages between research and extension

• Capacity building of the diagnostic capability of lab

• Irregular receiving of crop clinic data form LIO

• Appointing district coordinators from LIO

• Too detailed prescription form to fill in by plant doctor

• Modification of prescription sheet?

• Less support from LIO

• Mainstream Plantwise into government extension programme

Results so far• Training of trainers for national trainers: 20

• Number of Plant Doctors trained nationally: 316

• No of clinics operational: 105

• Number of clinic established: 242

• Crop Clinics are located: 11 districts out of 25

• For awareness raising regarding PCCP: two exhibitions

Future directions

• Incorporating the crop clinic concept to the extension system • Development of more green and yellow lists, factsheets and

photo sheets• Establishment of Monitoring & Evaluation system• Streamlining the data management system• Create a national map of clinic locations for mapping• Uploading the locally available technical information on

Plantwise knowledge bank• Development of a website for PCCP, Sri Lanka• To prepare Directories of Diagnostic Services (DODS) which

will provide an overview of the organizations and services accessed within the country

Summing up

“Plantwise has facilitated to bring together specialist of different sectors whose mandates address different aspects of plant health which has immensely helped the farmers in solving their pest issues.”

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PlantwiseLessons from Kenya

Eunice Kagendo LingeeraNDVA team member

Plant Clinics

Coordinated by the MoAL&F, Plantwise, KEPHIS, KARI, PCPB, Local Universities, Local NGOs and CBOs.

Together these partners, helps strengthen national plant health systems (trainings, diagnostics, lab testing, pest mapping and reporting, pest management)

An announcement is made on the location and date of the clinic

Farmers bring their plants for determination of the problem by PDs

Diagnosis is done by trained PDs

Difficult cases or confirmatory tests are referred to identified participating labs (KEPHIS, KARI).

Data collection goes on concurrently.

Currently Kenya has 59 operational plant health clinics in 13 counties.

Each plant health clinic is ran by 2 plant doctors .

Plans are underway to open more (30) plant health clinics in the remaining counties.

Main target is small scale farmers:

To reduce crop losses, thus increase food security and improve rural livelihoods .

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Harmonisation

Recording Data EntryTransfer

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Analysis

Sharing

Validation

Data collection and processing workflow

MOAL&F: Local implementing organization

KEPHIS: National regulatory organization (pests and invasive species)

PCPB: National regulatory organization (pest control products)

UON: Content partner

KARI: Diagnostic support

CABI: Coordination

Representatives from the above institutions collaborated in the formation of the National Data Validation and Analysis team

Institutional roles and responsibilities

Practical skills on use of a data validation protocol to NDVA team members were imparted.

Capacity development to plant doctors.

Ability to make IPM recommendations (reduce use of pesticides--minimum residue levels in exported crop)

Improved ability to make accurate diagnosis.

The validated and analyzed data was shared with Plantwise stakeholders detailing information on most commonly reported

Diseases Invertebrate pests Plant nutritional deficiencies Gender ratio of farmers visiting clinics Researchable areas

Achievements:

The team identified the crops with high frequency queries which direct s team during development IPM fact sheets.

The IPM fact sheets help reduce use of pesticides thus low levels of MRLs on the local/export produce.

The areas where institutional of higher learning needs to develop training curriculum were identified.

KEPHIS (national NPPO) - information on emergence of unreported pests, plans surveillance activities.

KEPHIS – information, areas with high pesticide usage; train on adoption of IPM methods.

Train farmers on pest alerts and early mgt systems

Achievements cont..:

The current data validation protocol is lengthy and tedious.

Need to adopt a semi-automated validation tool.

High numbers of rejected cases during data analysis (app. 40%)

Capacity building for PDs.

No diagnostic laboratories.

Collaborating institutions to assist.

Challenges:

Devolution and movement of extension staff.

Need for intervention from the county directors.

Poor financial support from county government and lack of political goodwill.

Awareness creation

Ability to diagnose new pests and diseases.

Links with partnering institutions for diagnostic services.

Challenges:

Bring more persons on board with varied expertise to enhance and quicken data validation.

Capacity building and equip plant doctors with up dated reference materials to enhance quality of diagnosis.

Take care of data volumes, its important to convene data validation workshops every quarter part of the year.

Future plans:

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