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North American Plant Protection
Organization
Ian McDonell
NAPPO Executive Director21st Technical Consultation among Regional Plant Protection Organizations Entebbe, Uganda
November 30 to December 3, 2009
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Economic impacts of Plant Protection programs
1. Difficult to quantify
2. Mostly anecdotal evidence
3. How much of benefits to attribute to plant protection programs
4. Lack of data – before and after (e.g. ISPM15)
5. No history of economic analysis in plant protection
6. Politicians and public focus on ‘those that got away’
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What do we know?
1. Control and eradication costs are high 2. Production losses3. Market losses 4. Environmental damage5. Loss of native species
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NAPPO case studies
Potatoes
NAPPO Regional standard serves as a
framework to eliminate prohibitions and
develop bilateral agreements
Important economic and political benefits
from potato trade among NAPPO countries
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• Cactoblastis cactorum (cactus moth)• Social impact: Opuntia is a valuable
agricultural commodity and staple food of some of the poorest communities living in Northern Mexico
• Economic impact: Annual potential loss in the United States and Mexico has been estimated at US $150 million
• Benefit/Cost ratio of control program estimated at 50:1
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Irradiation as a Postharvest treatment• NAPPO and IPPC Standards facilitated
expanded use of this technology
• Mexico- lack of postharvest treatments for guava
• Irradiation opened US market with $5.5 million trade in first year
• India exports irradiated mangoes to US
• Hawaii investing in irradiation to expand export markets
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Additional work
Dr. Linda Fernandez, UC Riverside
CABI- Megan Quinlan
Other RPPOs?
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Thank you!