Topic outline

  • Surveillance and pest status

    • This category provides information on NPPOs' oblig...

      This category provides information on NPPOs' obligations related to surveillance, pest status determination and pest reporting. lt discusses different types of surveillance and offers guidance on establishing national pest surveillance programmes, including prioritization, planning, survey methodologies and data collection.

      lt also provides guidance on how to determine the status of a pest in an area and the importance of pest reporting.

    • IPPC e-learning courses

    • FAO. 2024. Surveillance and pest status determination.
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      FAO. 2024. Surveillance and pest status determination. URL
    • FAO. 2024. National reporting obligations.
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      FAO. 2024. National reporting obligations. URL
    • FAO (forthcoming). Emergency preparedness for plant pests.
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      FAO (forthcoming). Emergency preparedness for plant pests. URL
    • FAO (forthcoming). Online Emergency Preparedness Tool.
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      FAO (forthcoming). Online Emergency Preparedness Tool. URL
    • FAO (forthcoming). Achieving market access for plants and plant products.
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      FAO (forthcoming). Achieving market access for plants and plant products. URL

    • IPPC guides

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      FAO. 2016. Guide to Delivering Phytosanitary Diagnostic Services. URL
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      FAO. 2016. The guide to National Reporting Obligations. URL

      For IPPC Contact Points and IPP editors.

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      FAO. 2019. Guide for Establishing and Maintaining Pest Free Areas. URL

      Understanding the principal requirements for pest free areas, pest free places of production, pest free production sites and areas of low pest prevalence.

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      IPPC Secretariat. 2021. Pest status guide. URL
      Understanding the principal requirements for pest status determination.
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      IPPC Secretariat. 2021. Surveillance guide. Second edition. URL

      A guide to understand the principal requirements of surveillance programmes for national plant protection organizations.

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      IPPC Secretariat. 2023. Emergency preparedness. URL
      A guide for developing contingency plans for outbreaks of quarantine pests.
    • Other e-learning courses
    • COLEAD. E-learning series: Organisation and management of a laboratory.
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      COLEAD. E-learning series: Organisation and management of a laboratory. URL
    • CABI: Crop Pest Diagnosis. (possible fee)
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      CABI: Crop Pest Diagnosis. (possible fee) URL

    • IPPC phytosanitary system pages

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      IPPC Secretariat. Surveillance. URL
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      IPPC Secretariat. Diagnostics. URL
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      IPPC Secretariat. Pest free areas & areas of low pest prevalence. URL
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      IPPC Secretariat. Eradication. URL
◄Pest risk analysis
►Market access
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