Global Challenges and Advances in Pest Management Toward a Sustainable Agriculture

Organizer(s)

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  Yelitza Colmenarez (she/her/hers)

  CABI Latin America Centre Director
  International Development
  Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI)
  Botucatu, Brazil
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  Adeney Bueno, Sr.

  Researcher
  Embrapa Soja
  Embrapa
  Londrina, Parana, Brazil

Section will discuss the advances reached globally in pest management toward a sustainable food production system. New solutions and researches to improve the agriculture production, food safety, environmental protection and even farmer´s profits in the different crop systems and countries shall be discussed during the section.

Presentations:

• 9:00 AM – 9:10 AM PT

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Adeney F. Bueno, Sr. – Embrapa
• 9:10 AM – 9:25 AM PT

  The economic and non-economic aspects of IPM that improve sustainable food production
  

  Presenting Author: David W. Onstad – Corteva Agriscience

  Co-author: Surendra K. Dara – Oregon State University
• 9:25 AM – 9:40 AM PT

  Biotechnology as a tool to sustainable food production around the world
  

  Presenting Author: Renato Horikoshi – Bayer Crop Science

  Co-Author: Patrick M. Dourado – Bayer Crop Science
• 9:40 AM – 9:55 AM PT

  The use of biological control for sustainable food production in Latin America in the Plantwise program
  

  Presenting Author: Yelitza C. Colmenarez (she/her/hers) – Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI)

  Co-author: Carlos Vásquez – Technical University of Ambato-Ecuador

  Co-author: Natalia Corniani Natalia Corniani – Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI)
• 9:55 AM – 10:10 AM PT

  Sustainable soybean production in South America
  

  Presenting Author: Adeney F. Bueno, Sr. – Embrapa
• 10:10 AM – 10:20 AM PT

  Break
• 10:20 AM – 10:35 AM PT

  From the 1960s to present: Progress in adopting integrated pest management (IPM) in California agriculture
  

  Presenting Author: Jhalendra P. Rijal (he/him/his) – University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources
• 10:50 AM – 11:20 AM PT

  Panel discussion
• 11:20 AM – 11:30 AM PT

  Closing remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Adeney F. Bueno, Sr. – Embrapa