GENEVA / FAO PLANT PESTS AND FOOD
24-Mar-2023
00:02:19
Dr. Osama El-Lissy of the Food and Agriculture (FAO) said “plant pests currently destroy up to 40 percent of agriculture and crops,” including 80 percent of the global banana production, which “is currently under attack from a disease called banana fusarium.” UNTV CH
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STORY: GENEVA / FAO PLANT PESTS AND FOOD
TRT: 02:19
SOURCE: UNTV CH
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 24 MARCH 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
TRT: 02:19
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 24 MARCH 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
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FILE - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, exterior, Palais des Nations
24 MARCH 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Osama El-Lissy, Secretary of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“Pests currently destroy up to 40 percent of agriculture and crops, including food crops- 40 percent each year. This costs the world about $220 billion- that would be $220 billion annually in global trade losses."
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Osama El-Lissy, Secretary of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“80 percent of the global banana production is currently under attack from a disease called banana fusarium. That is basically a fungus that attacks and kills bananas. And more recently, just two weeks ago, Venezuela actually reached out to us to report the detection of this particular banana fusarium in banana production and declared an emergency.”
6. Close up, journalist with monitors in the background
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Osama El-Lissy, Secretary of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“We are concerned about insecticide resistance and that's why we promote environmentally friendly tools that could be just as effective in controlling some of these pests, including biological control in sterile insect technology and other practices that can really minimize the use of insecticides while at the same time providing the necessary safeguarding against some of these invasive pests.”
8. Close up, journalists typing
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Osama El-Lissy, Secretary of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“Based on scientific review that the IPPC (International Plant Protection Convention) conducted last year, climate change is increasing the risk of pests spreading in agriculture and forestry areas. And we see this in the distribution of desert locusts, the world's most destructive migratory pests.”
8. Med shot, Screens with camera in the foreground
9. Close up, journalist
10. Close up, journalists typing
1. Wide shot, exterior, Palais des Nations
24 MARCH 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Osama El-Lissy, Secretary of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“Pests currently destroy up to 40 percent of agriculture and crops, including food crops- 40 percent each year. This costs the world about $220 billion- that would be $220 billion annually in global trade losses."
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Osama El-Lissy, Secretary of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“80 percent of the global banana production is currently under attack from a disease called banana fusarium. That is basically a fungus that attacks and kills bananas. And more recently, just two weeks ago, Venezuela actually reached out to us to report the detection of this particular banana fusarium in banana production and declared an emergency.”
6. Close up, journalist with monitors in the background
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Osama El-Lissy, Secretary of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“We are concerned about insecticide resistance and that's why we promote environmentally friendly tools that could be just as effective in controlling some of these pests, including biological control in sterile insect technology and other practices that can really minimize the use of insecticides while at the same time providing the necessary safeguarding against some of these invasive pests.”
8. Close up, journalists typing
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Osama El-Lissy, Secretary of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“Based on scientific review that the IPPC (International Plant Protection Convention) conducted last year, climate change is increasing the risk of pests spreading in agriculture and forestry areas. And we see this in the distribution of desert locusts, the world's most destructive migratory pests.”
8. Med shot, Screens with camera in the foreground
9. Close up, journalist
10. Close up, journalists typing
STORYLINE
Dr. Osama El-Lissy of the Food and Agriculture (FAO) today (24 Mar) said “plant pests currently destroy up to 40 percent of agriculture and crops,” including 80 percent of the global banana production, which “is currently under attack from a disease called banana fusarium.”
Even though plants provide 98 percent or more of the oxygen people breathe, and nearly 80 percent of our daily calorie intake, they are under siege.
Talking to the media at the United Nations in Geneva ahead of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) annual meeting, El-Lissy, who is the Secretary-General of the IPPC said, “this costs the world about $220 billion - that would be $220 billion annually in global trade losses.”
The IPPC, an intergovernmental treaty involving 184 countries, is overseen by the FAO to safeguard agriculture and natural resources against plan pest and to facilitate safe trade.
In an increasingly hungry world, with 828 million people experiencing hunger in 2021 based on FAO estimates, this is alarming and set back global efforts towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 2, Zero Hunger, by 2030.
For example, the most widely traded fruit in the world, worth USD 7.5 billion, is under attack from the devastating banana fusarium (TR4), a fungus that attacks the roots causing bananas to wilt.
“80 percent of the global banana production is currently under attack from a disease called banana fusarium,” El-Lissy said. “That is basically a fungus that attacks and kills bananas. And more recently, just two weeks ago, Venezuela actually reached out to us to report the detection of this particular banana fusarium in banana production and declared an emergency.”
Next week, the IPPC’s governing body, the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures, will convene in Rome for its 17th annual session to adopt standard and to take stock of the progress in the global protection of plants.
“We are concerned about insecticide resistance and that's why we promote environmentally friendly tools that could be just as effective in controlling some of these pests, including biological control in sterile insect technology and other practices that can really minimize the use of insecticides while at the same time providing the necessary safeguarding against some of these invasive pests,” said El-Lissy.
He also emphasized that “based on scientific review that the IPPC conducted last year, climate change is increasing the risk of pests spreading in agriculture and forestry areas. And we see this in the distribution of desert locusts, the world's most destructive migratory pests”.
Even though plants provide 98 percent or more of the oxygen people breathe, and nearly 80 percent of our daily calorie intake, they are under siege.
Talking to the media at the United Nations in Geneva ahead of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) annual meeting, El-Lissy, who is the Secretary-General of the IPPC said, “this costs the world about $220 billion - that would be $220 billion annually in global trade losses.”
The IPPC, an intergovernmental treaty involving 184 countries, is overseen by the FAO to safeguard agriculture and natural resources against plan pest and to facilitate safe trade.
In an increasingly hungry world, with 828 million people experiencing hunger in 2021 based on FAO estimates, this is alarming and set back global efforts towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 2, Zero Hunger, by 2030.
For example, the most widely traded fruit in the world, worth USD 7.5 billion, is under attack from the devastating banana fusarium (TR4), a fungus that attacks the roots causing bananas to wilt.
“80 percent of the global banana production is currently under attack from a disease called banana fusarium,” El-Lissy said. “That is basically a fungus that attacks and kills bananas. And more recently, just two weeks ago, Venezuela actually reached out to us to report the detection of this particular banana fusarium in banana production and declared an emergency.”
Next week, the IPPC’s governing body, the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures, will convene in Rome for its 17th annual session to adopt standard and to take stock of the progress in the global protection of plants.
“We are concerned about insecticide resistance and that's why we promote environmentally friendly tools that could be just as effective in controlling some of these pests, including biological control in sterile insect technology and other practices that can really minimize the use of insecticides while at the same time providing the necessary safeguarding against some of these invasive pests,” said El-Lissy.
He also emphasized that “based on scientific review that the IPPC conducted last year, climate change is increasing the risk of pests spreading in agriculture and forestry areas. And we see this in the distribution of desert locusts, the world's most destructive migratory pests”.
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