Facilitating International Agricultural Trade Through Science: the Case of Tephritid Flies

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dc.contributor.authorProf. Maulid Walad Mwatawala
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-08T09:30:09Z
dc.date.available2024-03-08T09:30:09Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractInternational agricultural trade is important in addressing spatial and temporal food shortages across the globe. Agricultural trade generates income and contributes to economies of many countries. Unfortunately, there are various risks associated with the movement of agricultural commodities across borders. The spread of pests across countries is one of the great risks. The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), which is an agreement between nations, aims at preventing and controlling the introduction and spread of pests of plants and plant products across national boundaries. IPPC formulates various standards and guidelines that can be adopted by member states to formulate municipal phytosanitary laws against the introduction of pests. Countries normally conduct Pest Risk Analysis (PRA) in order to facilitate agricultural trade. This process requires scientific evidence on the identity and occurrences of pests in an area and a possible entry and the establishment and the spread of those pests into exotic places. Fruits and vegetable trade is important for food and security among the global population. However, fruit trade introduces the risk of the spread of pests, including fruit flies. Most fruit flies cause heavy losses to the fruit industry and these are therefore of quarantine importance. Research which has been conducted across the globe provided scientific evidence on the possible spread of fruit flies in order to facilitate trade. The Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) collaborated with various partners in the world to generate important information that is a prerequisite for conducting PRA. This inaugural lecture highlights key findings that include identification of new species, resolution of cryptic species, host range and preference, spatial and temporal distribution, and mitigation options against the selected economically important fruit flies.
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/5904
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSokoine University of Agriculture
dc.subjectInternational trade
dc.subjectfruits
dc.subjectfruit flies
dc.subjectquarantine
dc.titleFacilitating International Agricultural Trade Through Science: the Case of Tephritid Flies
dc.typeBook

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