Pest & Disease Risk Management in Coffee
Featured Articles:Our contributors focus on Coffee Berry Borer (CBB) management and prevention strategies in two very different situations. One in Papua New Guinea, where CBB has not yet taken hold within the country's borders, and the other in Colombia, where the knowledge of science and local farmers came together to find a beneficial and feasible long-term management solution for the pest. The Pest Incursion Risk to Papua New Guinea’s Coffee ProductionCABI has been working on coffee pests in PNG for the past eight years, first on the Coffee Green Scale, a long-time resident made more difficult to control by species of ants and now more recently CBB, which we have studied in many countries on three continents over the past 25 years. Int their article, Peter Baker, Bryony Taylor and Sean T. Murphy of CABI briefly share some relevant knowledge of this pest in the region and review current surveillance efforts to keep it at bay. Read the Article Two mind-sets manage risk better than one: Clean harvest in ColombiaIn this article, Jeff Bentley and Peter Baker highlight the experience of coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei), which is native to Africa, in the Americas. Specifically, they focus on Colombia, which was especially hard hit by the disease. As entomologists studied borers’ natural history, they learned that this tiny beetle has no alternative host: it has nowhere to live but in coffee. It lives for most of its lifecycle inside the coffee berry itself, creating a pest requiring scientists and farmers working together to manage. Read the Article Projects
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