This is an opinion paper to the perspective paper "The spread of the Fall Army Worm Spodoptera frugiperda in Africa - nwhat should be done next?" from the "Section Plant Protection in the Tropics and Subtropics" at the 61st German Congress of Plant Protection, held at the University of Hohenheim,...

The plant health management (PHM) is an integrated system that entirely relies on communicating accurate and timely information by key actors in the plant health system. Information and communication technologies (ICT's) are playing a significant role in connecting all the stakeholders in PHM...

Delivering actionable, high-quality plant health knowledge to smallholder farmers and the extension workers who support them is a major challenge. Few farmers access information via the Internet and remote locations make them difficult to reach. The Plantwise program has been working with local...

This review selects the major agricultural insect and disease pests of agriculture in China, and discusses the implications for developing the use of remote sensing to improve their management. The most important crops were selected as those, which contribute more than 5% nationally in terms of...