Ambiente - Salute - Diritti Umani - Nutrizione - Agricoltura

Odds are, today you ate something that came from another hemisphere. A mind-boggling $1.1 trillion worth of agricultural products are traded internationally each year, with food items accounting for 82 percent of the total. And where fruit or plants can travel, so too can less-savory characters. Fruit fly eggs hidden in the skins of oranges go unseen. Beetles burrow into wooden shipping pallets and escape detection. Fungal spores worm their way between the seams of metal shipping containers and so travel radically farther than the wind might ever blow them.
If they are not dealt with when they arrive at their destination, the consequences can be dire: every year global crop yields are reduced by somewhere between 20 and 40 percent due to plant pests and diseases, according to the FAO-based Secretariat of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC). Precise data are not available, but a significant number of these plant pests
were introduced via international trade. (...)

The article:
http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/174058/icode/

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Le nuove frontiere della difesa delle piante dagli organismi nocivi:

http://www.georgofili.info/detail.aspx?id=1292

Passato... presente:
http://www.fabiomanzione.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5903:qmalattie-delle-piante-che-segnarono-la-storiaq&catid=117:agricoltura&Itemid=103

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"Pestival 2013" -Mobile arts festival examining insect-human interactivity:

http://www.pestival.org/

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La piattaforma web Ue per la gestione emergenze fitopatologiche:

http://www.sassarinotizie.com/24ore-articolo-207557-agricoltura_biosicurezza_italiana_la_piattaforma_web_ue_gestione_emergenze.aspx

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Passato... presente:

http://www.fabiomanzione.it/index.php?searchword=insetti&ordering=newest&searchphrase=all&limit=20&option=com_search