Overview
What is the Crop Protection Compendium?
A time-saving, encyclopedic, mixed-media tool that draws together scientific information on all aspects of crop protection. It features extensive global coverage of pests, diseases, weeds and their natural enemies, the crops that are their hosts, and the countries in which they occur.
Vital stats
- 2400 detailed datasheets on crop pests, diseases, weeds, invasive plants and natural enemies, prepared by experts and independently verified
- More than 200 detailed crop datasheets
- Information on an additional 10,000 species
- Over 8000 pictures to allow for easy identification and teaching
- 110,000 bibliographic records from our CAB Abstracts database
- Interactive glossary with more than 9000 terms, some multilingual, including information on pesticides and biopesticides
- An extensive library of documents, some specially commissioned on various aspects of crop protection, including sections on phytosanitary resources, invasive plants, horticulture, transgenic crops, economic impact, postharvest issues and safe movement of germplasm
Unique features
- Extensive global coverage of crops, pests and natural enemies in a single resource with fast and easy navigation between text, images, maps and databases
- A simple, step-by-step diagnostic tool to aid in the identification of pests by symptoms, crop or country and identification keys to specific pest groups including fruit flies, beetles, nematodes and weeds
- An international database of seedborne diseases
- Data on the economic impact of harvest losses for 11 major crops
- Pest distribution data from the EPPO (European Plant Protection Organization) PQR database, CABI/EPPO maps, IPPC (International Plant Protection Convention) Official Pest Reports and other sources
- Statistics on crop production (by crop and country) and land use from FAOSTAT, demographic and economic data supplied by the World Bank
Who uses it?
Extension officers / Lecturers and students / Researchers / Plant quarantine officers / Policy makers / Crop managers / Crop protection practitioners (both public and private sector) / Seed and biotechnology industry / Agrochemical industry / Plant breeders / Entomologists, plant pathologists, nematologists and weed specialists
What do they have to say about it?
"It is currently the best single resource and constantly improving in quality and content."
Eileen Welch, USDA APHIS, USA
"A marvellous and convenient tool to gather worldwide information on crop protection."
Dr Nalini Gnanapragasam, Cropoptima (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka
"One of the most exciting and useful resources for those interested in pests and diseases of plants."
Ian MacLatchy, Plant Health Risk Management Unit, Canadian Food and Inspection Agency, Canada
"We do not know how we would have been able to cope without it"
Dr. Esther Kimani, Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service, Nairobi , Kenya
Introducing the International Development Consortium
The Crop Protection Compendium is an initiative of over 40 partners in a global Development Consortium, which includes technical institutions, development-assistance agencies and private-sector companies.
The International Development Consortium members:
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada / American Cynamid / Asian Development Bank / Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research / Bayer CropScience / Bioversity International / CABI / Canadian Food Inspection Agency / Canadian International Development Agency / Central Science Laboratory / Danish Government Institute of Seed Pathology / Danish International Development Agency / Deere and Company / Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Australia / Department for International Development / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Tecnische Zusummenarbeit / Dow AgroSciences (including Rohm and Haas) / DuPont / Grains Research and Development Corporation / Horticulture Australia / Indian Council of Agricultural Research / International Center for Tropical Agriculture / International Development Research Centre / International Institute of Tropical Agriculture / International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre / International Potato Centre / International Rice Research Institute / Kenya Agricultural Research Institute / Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute / Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan / Monsanto / National Department of Agriculture and Agricultural Research Council, South Africa / New Zealand Agency for International Development / Pioneer Hi-Bred / Rockefeller Foundation / Seminis Vegetable Seeds / Sumitomo Chemical Company Ltd / Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation / Syngenta / Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology / The Africa Rice Center / United Nations Development Program / United States Agency for International Development / United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service / United States Department of Agriculture - Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service / United States Department of Agriculture -Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service / United States Department of Agriculture - Foreign Agricultural Service / World Bank / Zamorano, Honduras
Our International Development Consortium Partners:
Centre for Biological Information Technology, University of Queensland, Australia / European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations / Iowa State University / Plant Resources of South-East Asia / Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory / University of Bonn, Germany
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