Role of Plant Quarantine in Biodiversity Conservation Plant Quarantine is a legislative (regulatory) method that applies conditions and/or requirements for the intra-regional and international movement/trade of flora to exclude or prevent pests from entering into an area where they do not exist. By monitoring the import and export of plant, seed/planting material to prevent the spread of disease and insect pests may move along with the infected plants, seed, fruit, planting materials, or equipment. Plant quarantines rules and regulations promulgated by governments to regulate the introduction of plants, planting materials, plant products, soil, living organisms, from one region to another with a view to prevent inadvertent introduction of exotic pests, weeds, and pathogens hat may be harmful to the biodiversity of the country’s agriculture, horticulture or the environment. If and when a pest is introduced plant quarantine measure also prevent their establishment and fur...
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United Nation Sustainable Development Goal N0. 2 Zero Hunger, Achieve Food Security and Improved Nutrition and Promote Sustainable Agriculture. By the year 2030 the target is to end hunger and ensure access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round. Despite progress more the 800 million people worldwide still from hunger daily The fight against hunger has seen some progress over the past 15 years. Globally, the proportion of undernourished people declined from 15 per cent in 2000-2002 to 11 per cent in 2014-2016. However, more than 790 million people still lack regular access to adequate food. If current trends continue, Even with many passages of Equal Rights Bills by the legislative assembly of many governments around the world; ‘We’ the people have yet to achieve Equity of all the factors needed for the sustenance of life, each man must attain and possess each of the following list below for the goal of zero hunger to be achieve 1. 1....
This is a brief summary of the leaning outcomes for the Introductory Course to the International Plant Protection Convention IPPC - The International Plant Protection Convention This is an international plant health agreement that aims to protect, cultivated and wild plants by preventing the introduction and spread of plant pests and diseases. The Convention was adopted in 1951 at the conference of FAO - the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. In 1992 the IPPC Secretariat was established beginning standard-setting programme. Over 180 countries signed the Convention. Benefits of the IPPC 1. protecting farmers and foresters from the introduction and spread of new pests 2. protecting food security protecting the natural environment, plant species and diversity 4. protecting producers and consumers from costs associated with combating and eradicating...
I am agricultural enthusiast, a native of Jamaica, I consider myself to be diligent, with a facilitating personality continuously striving for excellence. I am currently an Agricultural Inspector within the AHIS unit of the Cayman Islands Department of Agriculture. I am graduate of Knockalva Agricultural School and the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE). with some work experience with the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI). I have learned and appreciate the importance of the technicalities and how the applied science of agriculture impacts the human and social fabric of life's sustainability. I look forward to the learning opportunities in this course (U.W.I Advance Certificate in Plant Quarantine, June 2024)