Table of Contents:
  • Crop biosecurity : definitions and role in food safety and food security / Maria Lodovica Gullino, Jacqueline Fletcher and James Peter Stack
  • Scope of the project / Maria Lodovica Gullino
  • Challenges to crop biosecurity / James Peter Stack
  • High consequence plant pathogens / Abraham Gamliel
  • Crop biosecurity : local, national, regional and global perspectives / Abraham Gamliel, Maria Lodovica Gullino and James Peter Stack
  • The need for diagnostic tools and infrastructure / Federico Tinivella, Maria Lodovica Gullino and James Peter Stack
  • Crop biosecurity : containment and eradication of invasive pathogens / Abraham Gamliel and Jacqueline Fletcher
  • The need for forensic tools in a balanced national agricultural security program / Jacqueline Fletcher
  • The need for secure communications networks and global connectivity / James Peter Stack and Will Baldwin
  • The case for international cooperation as a strategy to achieve crop biosecurity / Jacqueline Fletcher
  • Crop and food biosecurity research : luxury or need? / Maria Lodovica Gullino, Abraham Gamliel, Jacqueline Fletcher and James Peter Stack
  • Evaluation of critical issues and identification of research and investments needs in the field of crop biosecurity in Europe / Maria Lodovica Gullino, Abraham Gamliel and Jacqueline Fletcher
  • European Commission's green paper on bio-preparedness / Isabelle BĂ©noliel.