"Proceedings of the combined NATO Collaborative Linkage Grant on Tools for Crop Biosecurity, Torino, Italy, 10-11 Nov. 2005, Giza, Egypt, 18-20 March 2006, Bet Dagan, Israel, 23-27 March 2006"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Crop biosecurity : definitions and role in food safety and food security / Maria Lodovica Gullino, Jacqueline Fletcher and James Peter Stack -- Scope of the project / Maria Lodovica Gullino -- Challenges to crop biosecurity / James Peter Stack -- High consequence plant pathogens / Abraham Gamliel -- Crop biosecurity : local, national, regional and global perspectives / Abraham Gamliel, Maria Lodovica Gullino and James Peter Stack -- The need for diagnostic tools and infrastructure / Federico Tinivella, Maria Lodovica Gullino and James Peter Stack -- Crop biosecurity : containment and eradication of invasive pathogens / Abraham Gamliel and Jacqueline Fletcher -- The need for forensic tools in a balanced national agricultural security program / Jacqueline Fletcher -- The need for secure communications networks and global connectivity / James Peter Stack and Will Baldwin -- The case for international cooperation as a strategy to achieve crop biosecurity / Jacqueline Fletcher -- Crop and food biosecurity research : luxury or need? / Maria Lodovica Gullino, Abraham Gamliel, Jacqueline Fletcher and James Peter Stack -- Evaluation of critical issues and identification of research and investments needs in the field of crop biosecurity in Europe / Maria Lodovica Gullino, Abraham Gamliel and Jacqueline Fletcher -- European Commission's green paper on bio-preparedness / Isabelle BeĢnoliel.
Series:
NATO science for peace and security series. Series C, Environmental security
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