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Dear All,
The Global Plant Health Assessment (GPHA) has been conducted under the aegis of the
International Society for Plant Pathology (ICPP). The first phase of the GPHA was
completed by approximately 100 scientists that contributed on a voluntary basis to
understand the current state of plant health (annual crops, perennial crops, home gardens,
peri-urban agriculture, urban trees, and forest trees) relative to the provision of
ecosystem services (provisioning, regulating, and cultural services).
The GPHA website provides access to the documents that arose from the first phase:
https://sites.google.com/view/global-plant-health-assessment/home
The ICPP is now supporting phase 2 of the GPHA. The second phase will expand the
assessments of phase 1 to address the future of plant health through networked projects.
The GPHA does not offer or provide sources of funding. It provides an opportunity to
exchange research ideas and methods to support research and education to address the
present and future of plant health.
A workshop has been planned for November 2024, in Toulouse, France. The workshop is open
to any scientist that would like to contribute to the second phase of the GPHA. The goal
of the workshop is to develop an overall strategy involving a collective of individual
scientists and a collective of specific projects to address the state, and future, of
plant health.
Several scientists from Division 7 participated in the first phase of the GPHA and all are
welcome to participate in this new initiative. Attached is the programme for the upcoming
workshop. If you would like to participate, or wish further information, please contact
Laetitia Willocquet (lwillocquet@gmail.com<mailto:lwillocquet@gmail.com>).
Best wishes, Tod
Tod Ramsfield, PhD
Co-coordinartor IUFRO Division 7 - Forest Health
Research Scientist Forest Pathology, Canadian Forest Service
Natural Resources Canada / Government of Canada
Tod.Ramsfield@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca<mailto:Tod.Ramsfield@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca> / Tel:
825-510-1303
Chercheur, Pathologie forestière, Service canadien des forêts
Ressources naturelles Canada / Gouvernement du Canada
Tod.Ramsfield@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca<mailto:Tod.Ramsfield@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca> / Tel :
825-510-1303