The pests that the standard seeks to control are typically insect pests and other pests and diseases vectored by insects.

They control pests, and they're food for animals.

Today's best variety is tomorrow's lunch for insects or pests or disease.

And even though they're used in labs to promote human lives, they're also considered pests.

Parties also suggested the need for measures to combat mud torrents, forest fires, pests and diseases.

(h) Forest fires, pests, diseases and abiotic factors affecting forests, including storm damage and the impact of climate change

The African continent has benefited from the Agency's capacity building in applying SIT for the eradication of tsetse flies and other pests.

We have provided assistance to combat epidemic diseases and overcome the effects of natural disasters including floods, droughts and infestation by locusts and other pests.

ISPM 15 is an international standard for the treatment of solid wood packaging material to prevent the spread of forest pests, specifically those attacking standing timber.

Specifically, the Panel notes that Iran's approach does not take due account of changes in crop yields that may be due to the impacts of pests and diseases.

We call for the intensification of international efforts to eradicate agricultural pests, introduce low cost water desalination plants, combat desertification, and reclaim lands and render them suitable for agriculture.

And then within plant protection, I came into the discipline of biological pest control which we actually define as the use of living organisms to reduce populations of noxious plant pests.

MBTOC analysed the results and found that for all situations and all crops tested, one or more of the alternatives proved comparable to MB for the control of target pests diseases.

(o) Analyse the causes of, and address solutions to, threats to forest health and vitality from natural disasters and human activities, including threats from fire, pollution, pests, disease and invasive alien species

At TEDxTelAviv, Shimon Steinberg looks at the difference between pests and bugs and makes the case for using good bugs to fight bad bugs, avoiding chemicals in our quest for perfect produce.

Number two, many growers are in fact petrified from the idea of resistance, that the pests will become resistant to the chemicals, just in our case that bacteria becomes resistant to antibiotics.

Other major threats to forest health and productivity include those posed by fire, storms and other cataclysms, drought, air pollution, the long term effects of climate change, pests, diseases and invasive species.

According to Iraq, Saudi Arabia has merely attributed the alleged crop losses to plant pests and plant diseases with no demonstration of any link between these diseases to the oil well fires.

All the six different species rabbits, actually are all performing ecological services for one another, such that the manure of one is the lunch for the other and they take care of pests for one another.

So it turns out that the very same technology is also being used to grow new lines of corn, wheat, soybean and other crops that are highly tolerant of drought, of flood, of pests and pesticides.

Countries are also addressing the serious implications for forest health and productivity of invasive species, pests and diseases action taken includes international collaboration to reduce the risk of infestations spreading through trade and other transboundary movements.

The panel recommended that if there is an intention to include other biological agents capable of being developed as economic weapons, then certain animal pathogens should be included, as well as plant pathogens and some pests of high socio economic importance.

(d) The fact that 60 per cent of the ecosystem services examined by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment are being degraded or used unsustainably, including freshwater, capture fisheries, air and water purification and the regulation of regional and local climate, natural hazards and pests.

Expressing its deep concern at the number and scale of natural disasters, diseases and pests and their increasing impact in recent years, which have resulted in massive loss of life and livelihood and threatened agricultural production and food security, in particular in developing countries,

Expressing its deep concern at the number and scale of natural disasters, diseases and pests and their increasing impact in recent years, which have resulted in massive loss of life and livelihood and threatened agricultural production and food security, in particular in developing countries,

Expressing its deep concern at the number and scale of natural disasters, diseases and pests and their increasing impact in recent years, which have resulted in massive loss of life and livelihood and threatened agricultural production and food security, in particular in developing countries,

The bacterial genes express proteins that are toxic to corn boring insects, but that are harmless to birds, fish, and mammals, including humans. As the modified corn fends off insect pests, it also reduces the levels of the mold Fusarium, thereby reducing the levels of fumonisin.

Expressing its deep concern at the number and scale of natural disasters, diseases and agricultural pests and their increasing impact in recent years, which have resulted in a massive loss of life and livelihood and threatened agricultural production and food security, in particular in developing countries,

The number and types of impacts in this sector included productivity yield of crops, effects on soil moisture, and incidence of pests and spread of infectious diseases, as well as effects on the length of the growing season, carbon fertilization and productivity of pastures and livestock.

In Africa, daily food waste averages 500 calories per person but consumers account for only 5 of this loss. More than three quarters of the waste occurs well before the kitchen, in inefficient agriculture, because birds and rats eat crops during harvest, for example, or pests spoil grain stores.

A slaughter house with the capacity of to produce 8000 bird day and the ability to conserve 150.000 chickens as well as the opening of a small laboratory for the modernization of the preventive animal health care programs and immediate prevention of eventual pests before they can occur.

Second claim unit Crop resources Saudi Arabia seeks compensation in the amount of USD 40,053 for crop losses sustained by farmers in the Al Hassa region of Saudi Arabia from plant pests and diseases alleged to have resulted from the fallout from the oil well fires in Kuwait.

With two exceptions (control of ginseng root rot and stabilisation of high moisture fresh dates), the completed demonstration projects, for all Article 5(1) locations and all crops or situations tested, identified one or more alternatives comparable to MB in their effectiveness in the control of targeted pests and diseases.

Instead, most now apply insecticides only when infestation exceeds some threshold level, with the goal of producing a sustainable and satisfactory crop. Under the banner of integrated pest management, hundreds of invasive species are now successfully controlled by strategies that restrict the population growth of pests but do not attempt to eradicate them

Expressing its deep concern over the number and scale of natural disasters, diseases and agricultural pests and their increasing impact in recent years, which have resulted in a massive loss of life and long term negative social, economic and environmental consequences for vulnerable societies throughout the world, in particular in developing countries,

(c) Research aimed at achieving a better tonnage of sugar cane per planted hectare, with modern techniques of planting, cultural treatments, phytosanitary control, and use of seed cane varieties resistant to diseases and pests and with a greater production of sucrose per area planted being just some of the aspects of this research

Many Parties expressed a need for applied research to identify and transfer appropriate technologies to increase crop productivity, and to conduct investigations of the use of drought resistant or salt resistant crop varieties, international cooperation to study possible sources of pest introduction, and methods of biological or chemical control for pests in several regions.

More than 17 million farmers in roughly three dozen countries worldwide are using GM crop varieties to produce higher yields with fewer inputs and lower environmental impact. Most of these new varieties are designed to resist crop ravaging pests and diseases, so that farmers can adopt environmentally friendlier no till practices and use more benign herbicides.

14. Stresses the importance of international development cooperation and assistance, in particular in emergency situations such as natural and man made disasters, diseases and pests, for the realization of the right to food and the achievement of sustainable food security, while recognizing that each country has the primary responsibility for ensuring the implementation of national programmes and strategies in this regard

This analysis should include, where applicable, information on, inter alia, hydrology, soils, risk of fires, pests and diseases If any negative impact is considered significant by the project participants or the host Party, a statement that project participants have undertaken an environmental impact assessment, in accordance with the procedures required by the host Party, including conclusions and all references to support documentation.

So we've been planting stuff for 11,000 years. And in the measure that we plant stuff, what we learn from agriculture is you've got to deal with pests, you've got to deal with all types of awful things, you've got to cultivate stuff. In the measure that you learn how to use water to cultivate, then you're going to be able to spread beyond the Nile.

In addition to direct help for small farms, donors should provide more help for the research and development needed to identify new high yielding seed varieties, especially to breed plants that can withstand temporary flooding, excess nitrogen, salty soils, crop pests, and other challenges to sustainable food production. Helping the poor with today s technologies, while investing in future improved technologies, is the optimum division of labor.

Modern science should focus on sustainable increases in land and water productivity, management of production risks caused by droughts, floods, pests, and on mitigation and adaption to climate change. Drought tolerant and pest resistant crop varieties, disease resistant livestock, and high yield agricultural production systems that use less water and capture nitrogen from the air are but a few examples of the kind of technologies needed.

Modern science should focus on sustainable increases in land and water productivity, management of production risks caused by droughts, floods, pests, and on mitigation and adaption to climate change. Drought tolerant and pest resistant crop varieties, disease resistant livestock, and high yield agricultural production systems that use less water and capture nitrogen from the air are but a few examples of the kind of technologies needed.

The range of reported measures, both planned and implemented, included the preservation of existing forest cover, afforestation, reforestation, programmes for the development of commercial plantations, agroforestry, prevention and control of forest fires, control of diseases and pests, control of damage due to acid rain, woodland creation, promotion of low impact logging, improvement of timber utilization, and conversion of low productivity lands into grasslands and rangelands.