IYPH2020:Why the agri-food industry should care about it?

摘要

The UN announced 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH). While it is easy to dismiss 'Plant Health' as a matter limited only to farming, it has huge direct and indirect implications across different aspects of the food chain.The importance of plant health is vast and affects all areas of the sector. I will disucss the perspectives of food and nutritional security, food safety, economic prosperity, need for holistic understanding of the ONE Health paradigm in the first part of this column.