Information Exchange IAS and the IPPC

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Information Exchange IAS and the IPPC

• CAB Internationals Role
• Roger Day
• CABI Africa
• Nairobi, Kenya

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CAB International

• Intergovernmental
• Not-for-profit
• International
• Developing
• countries
• 90 years old
• ..appropriate international organisation (Art
  XX)

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CAB International

• Information Exchange through
• Publishing information products
• Taxonomy, pest identification
• Networking and coordination
• Support to standard setting process
• Global Invasive Species Programme

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Information exchange through...Information
Products

• Books, journals
• eg Ebbels (2003). Principles of
• Plant Health and Quarantine
• Pest distribution maps
• with EPPO
• Review journals
• Primary journals

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Information exchange through...Information
Products

• Bibliographic databases, portals
• CAB Abstracts (gt4m records)
• PEST CD
• CAB Direct
• ICM Focus

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Information exchange through...Information
Products

• Compendia
• Animal Health and Production
• Full datasheets - 200 diseases background -
  20,000
• Feed information, drugs vaccines database
• Diagnostic aids
• Forestry
• Full datasheets - 1200 species
• background - 22,000
• Species selection tool
• Seed suppliers database
• Crop Protection

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Information exchange through...Information
Products

• Electronic encyclopaedia on CD/Internet
• gt1900 pests natural enemies
• 10,000 in less detail
• 125,000 abstracts
• Information on distribution, ecology, management
  etc
• FAO crop production data crop loss data
• 6,800 images
• Keys and taxonomic framework
• Soft links, glossary, notepads
• Phytosanitary module

• Crop Protection Compendium (CPC)

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Information exchange through...Information
Products

• Crop Protection Compendium (CPC)

• Partners
• EPPO
• FAO
• Iowa State University, USA
• Plant Resources of South-East Asia PROSEA
• University of Bonn, Germany
• gt1100 commissioned experts from 75 countries

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Information exchange through...Information
Products

• Crop Protection Compendium (CPC)

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• Preliminary pest lists
• ? Quarantine pests
• ? Non quarantine pests
• User modifiable

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• Risk assessment
• Entry
• Establishment
• Spread
• Economic damage

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• Risk assessment
• conclusion
• Overall risk
• Need for measures

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• Risk management
• Options for consignments
• Preventing crop infestation
• Other options

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Report compilation
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Information exchange through...Information
Products

• CPC PRA Does
• Provide preliminary list of pests for
  consideration
• Help maintain list of regulated pests
• Provide checklist and sequence of risk factors
• Provide information useful to assessment
• Provide checklist of possible measures
• Facilitate transparency and documentation
• CPC PRA Does Not
• Evaluate risk
• Require use of a specific method for risk
  evaluation
• Reduce the need for risk analysts

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Information exchange through...Information
Products

• CPC looking to the future
• Additional invasive species content
• gt200 new species
• 100 existing species fully reviewed
• gt100 woody species being added
• Revision of weed key
• New library documents, abstracts
• Forestry and timber pests
• gt150 forest pests being added
• Revision of data sheet content
• Additional other materials

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Information exchange through...Taxonomy, Pest
identification

• Molecular methods for rapid
  detection
• User friendly identification aids
  (eg CABIKey)
• Training in identification of pests
• Development and curation of
• reference collections (CABI has 500,000)
• Global Plant Health Clinic free for DCs
• www.globalplantclinic.org

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Information exchange through...Networking,
Coordination

• BioNET International
• Support to regional organisations eg COMESA
• Removing barriers to invasive plant management
  in Africa (GEF)
• Ethiopia, Ghana, Uganda, Zambia
• Policy environment institutional framework
• Information exchange awareness
• Implementation of prevention and control
• Capacity building

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Information exchange through...Support to
Standards Setting

• Briefing papers, inputs to working groups
• Environmental hazards
• Risks from LMOs
• Efficacy of phytosanitary measures
• Comparison of standard setting procedures
• Regional consultations
• Environmental pests in relation to ISPM11
  supplement
• Application and review of ISPM3

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Information exchange throughGlobal Invasive
Species Programme

• Founded in 1996/97
• CAB International (CABI)
• World Conservation Union (IUCN)
• Scientific Committee for Problems of the
  Environment (SCOPE)
• To conserve biodiversity and sustain human
  livelihoods by minimizing the spread and impact
  of invasive alien species
• A framework for international cooperation and
  capacity building

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Information exchange throughGlobal Invasive
Species Programme

• Phase 1 outputs policy, toolkits, communication
• Invasive Species in a Changing World
• The Economics of Biological Invasions
• A Guide to Designing Legal and Institutional
  Frameworks and Alien Invasive Species
• 100 of the Worlds Worst Invasive Alien Species
• The Great Reshuffling Human Dimensions of
  Invasive Alien Species
• Invasive Alien Species A Toolkit of Best
  Prevention and Management Practices

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Information exchange throughGlobal Invasive
Species Programme

• 10 point global strategy

• Build National capacity
• Build scientific, social, economic research
  capacity
• Promote Information sharing
• Develop economic policies tools
• Incorporate IAS issues into global change
  programs
• Strengthen legal institutions frameworks
• Institute a system of environmental risk analysis
  
• Promote public awareness
• Build national strategies plans
• Promote international cooperation

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Information exchange throughGlobal Invasive
Species Programme

• COP Decision VI/23
• 18. Acknowledges the contribution of the
  Global Invasive Species Programme to the sixth
  meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific,
  Technical and Technological Advice, particularly
  the provision of technical advice and therefore
• Welcomes phase II of the Global Invasive Species
  Programme and urges Parties, countries and other
  organizations to support the work of the Global
  Invasive Species Programme to minimize the spread
  and impact of invasive alien species, and
  consider the Global Strategy on Invasive Alien
  Species when developing national plans and
  regional strategies
• Recommends continuing cooperation with the Global
  Invasive Species Programme and requests the
  Executive Secretary to explore the development of
  arrangements for this further cooperation

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Information exchange throughGlobal Invasive
Species Programme

• COP Decision VI/23
• 25. welcomes the Global Invasive Species
  Programme as an international thematic focal
  point for alien species under the clearing-house
  mechanism, and calls on Parties, countries and
  relevant organizations to contribute to the
  creation and maintenance of the global
  information network, in particular to
• Ensure effective international cooperation and
  expertise sharing
• Provide information to assist countries to
  perform effective risk analysis
• Provide information on potential pathway of alien
  invasive species and
• Provide support for management and control
  efforts, particularly for locating technical
  support for rapid response activities

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Information exchange throughGlobal Invasive
Species Programme

• Phase 2
• Secretariat established in S Africa
• Working groups
• National and Regional Facilitation Cooperation
• Communication, Education, Outreach
• Global Information Management
• Pathway Management
• Evaluation and Assessment
• Law and Policy