1. LOSE LESS, FEED MORE
www.plantwise.org
A Global Alliance for
Plant Health Support
Plantwise:
U. Kuhlmann, April 2013
Plantwise Programme Executive

2. CABI member countries
Anguilla Australia Bahamas Bangladesh Bermuda Botswana British Virgin Brunei
Islands Darussalam
Burundi Canada Chile China Colombia Cote d’Ivoire Cyprus DPR Korea
Gambia Ghana Grenada Guyana India Jamaica Kenya Malawi
Philippines Rwanda Sierra Leone Solomon South Africa Sri Lanka St Helena Switzerland
Islands
Tanzania Trinidad & Uganda United Vietnam Zambia Zimbabwe
Tobago Kingdom
Malaysia Mauritius Montserrat Myanmar The Netherlands Nigeria Pakistan Papua New
Guinea

3. CABI - global reach
350+ staff across 19 locations worldwide
UK 195 Netherlands 2 Switzerland 22
Bulgaria 1
China 4
USA 3
Costa Rica 1
Trinidad & Tobago 5
Australia 1
Kenya 27
Brazil 1
Malaysia 10
India 9Pakistan 65
Hungary 1 Serbia 1
Cameroon 1 Uganda 1 Ethiopia 1

4. Impact (Goal)
To contribute to enabling male
and female farmers around the
world to lose less and grow
more
Outcome (Purpose)
To strengthen the capacity of
agricultural institutions and
organisations to establish
sustainable plant health
systems within their country,
using the Plantwise approach as
the framework for action

5. Outputs (Expected Results)
Innovative linkages established between key actors in a
plant health system, including extension, research,
regulation and input supply
National networks of plant clinics established to provide
regular advice to farmers and facilitate pest surveillance
through the collection and use of plant clinic data
Comprehensive knowledge bank developed according to
user needs for pest diagnosis, treatment and distribution,
and made available to national advisory services and
organisations contributing to plant health systems
Monitoring and evaluation schemes implemented for
continuous learning, improving processes and quantifying
outcomes and impact

6. Partnerships
The success of Plantwise is
dependent on partnerships
Plantwise facilitates
institutional change through
strong partnerships with
relevant government ministries
and departments, such as:
extension
crop protection (often
representing the NPPO)

7. Partnerships
With national governments as
the key partner, Plantwise
strengthens national plant
health systems by linking
stakeholders, such as:
diagnostic services
agro-input suppliers
research institutions
non-governmental
organisations
post-secondary educational
institutions
farmer- and community-based
organisations

8. Plant clinics
Work like the human health
system (doctors, pharmacies,
laboratories/diagnostic
services)
Run on a regular schedule
Record data about the farmer,
location and problem
Provide a mechanism by which
new and emerging pests can be
detected (surveillance)
Provide a mechanism for
reaching farmers with other key
messages about plant health

9. Free at the point of use
Set up at local meeting
places, such as markets
Farmers bring a sample into
the plant clinic
They receive a diagnosis and
a ‘prescription’
(recommendation) from a
trained plant doctor giving
practical treatment advice
How the clinics work
(farmer point of view)
Plant clinic, DR Congo

13. ‘plant doctors’
(extension/plant protection staff)
Farmers
PlantwisePlantwise
knowledge
bank
Diagnosis,
support, advice
“Intelligence”:
What crops,
pests are being
seen?
Dialogue with
farmer, collect
key information
Improved,
evidence-based
extension
materials; pest
alerts; support
tools
Partner
materials/data
Scientific information
and expertise
Information flow

14. PW Implementation 2013
Africa
DR Congo
Kenya
Rwanda
Sierra Leone
Tanzania
Uganda
Ghana
Ethiopia
Malawi
Mali
Zambia
Mozambique
South Asia
Bangladesh
India
Nepal
Sri Lanka
C&W Asia
Pakistan
Afghanistan
SE Asia
Cambodia
Vietnam
Thailand
East Asia
China
Caribbean & Central
America
Nicaragua
Honduras
Barbados
Grenada
Trinidad & Tobago
Suriname
Latin
America
Bolivia
Peru
Brazil

15. Plantwise can be an important
contributor to the mission of the
IPPC
Feedback from the Commission
on Phytosanitary Measures will
help to ensure that PW responds
to the needs of it constituents
Side event is intended to serve as
a forum to discuss on how PW
can help to support the NPPO
activities and the mission of IPPC
Opportunities for
IPPC–PW Collaboration

16. Thank you
LOSE LESS, FEED MORE
www.plantwise.org

17. LOSE LESS, FEED MORE
www.plantwise.org
Plantwise Knowledge
Bank
Shaun Hobbs,
Global Director, Knowledge Bank
11 April 2013
CPM8, Rome

18. Input
supply
Research
Farmers
Regulation
Extension
Plant
clinics
Knowledge
and
Information

20. CABI in collaboration with

21. CABI in collaboration with

23. CABI in collaboration with

24. Leading to a datasheet on further
information

25. Maps of disease distribution

26. Full references given for
each point

27. Partner data from CIAT

28. Distribution information collated from
reliable sources
NPPOs and RPPOs (e.g. information sharing with EPPO)
Peer-reviewed literature (over 800 relevant journals scanned per
year)
Other referenced sources (such as species collections)
References given in all cases

29. CABI in collaboration with

30. Pest alert example

31. Recording clinic data:

32. Pests seen at clinics

33. Dashboard of clinic data

34. Thank you
Shaun Hobbs
s.hobbs@cabi.org
www.plantwise.org/knowledgebank
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www.plantwise.org

35. U. Kuhlmann, April 2013
Future Directions for
Collaboration between
IPPC and Plantwise
Plantwise Policy
Statements

36. Plantwise can be an important
contributor to the mission of the
IPPC
Feedback from the Commission
on Phytosanitary Measures will
help to ensure that PW responds
to the needs of it constituents
Side event is intended to serve as
a forum to discuss on how PW
can help to support the NPPO
activities and the mission of IPPC
Opportunities for
IPPC–PW Collaboration

37. Clarify the Plantwise stance on three key issues
(currently), including international conventions,
regulations and standards relevant to plant protection,
biodiversity and the environment
Tackle the following topics:
publishing pest reports
use of plant clinic data
use of pesticides use
Policy Statements

38. Pest Reporting – within the country
National Plant Protection Organisations (NPPOs) have
the key responsibility of reporting the occurrence,
outbreak and spread of pests in the area for which they
are responsible (ISPM 17) under the International Plant
Protection Convention (IPPC)
Plantwise facilitates the reporting of potential new pests
to the official IPPC contact point within the NPPO
Where in-country diagnostic services have limited
capacity, specimens may be sent to a laboratory outside
the country, in concurrence with the NPPO
Policy Statements

39. Pest Reports – from the public domain
Plantwise offers IPPC contact points and other
interested parties an alerting service which sends
subscribers information on their country or the world
The NPPO may challenge a pest report at any time and
its status on the Plantwise knowledge bank will be
changed (deleted or otherwise updated) in the light of
supporting evidence, referencing the NPPO
correspondence
Policy Statements

40. Use of Plant Clinic Data
CABI recognises the value of scientific data but also the
potential sensitivity of some of this information and so has
created two sections of the knowledge bank, one that is
‘access-controlled’ and one ‘open-access’. The national
responsible organisation decides the level of access.
Access-controlled --- only selected employees from
partner organisations, relevant in-country government
bodies and CABI can view the material deposited
Open-access --- clinic data is freely available for research,
teaching, and for wider exploitation for the public good, by
individuals, government, business and other organisations
Policy Statements

41. Use of Plant Clinic Data (continued)
CABI will only use access-controlled data to:
Support quality control of the clinics
Support data management, validation and analysis
Prepare analyses and reports for donors or in-
country government bodies
Demonstrate Plantwise to potential partners within
the target country
Undertake research for the improvement of the KB
and associated offering
Prepare generalised reports where the data cannot
be identified as coming from a specific country
Policy Statements

42. Future Directions for
IPPC–CABI Collaboration
Collaboration on pest reporting
Sharing knowledge and contact
points
Secondment of a CABI staff at
the IPPC Secretariat
Establishment of an IPPC-CABI
technical working group
CABI has recently offered
£40,000 to support the IPPC in
implementing its Phytosanitary
Capacity Evaluation (PCE)

43. LOSE LESS, FEED MORE
www.plantwise.org
Thank you

44. Policy statements
Use of pesticides
Plant doctors are advised to give advice that follows
the principles of Integrated Pest Management
Where the use of pesticides is unavoidable, only
locally-registered pesticides are recommended
Pesticides that are subject to international
restrictions should not be recommended
Advice should keep pesticide usage to the lowest
effective level and ensure minimal risk to human
health and the environment

45. Use of Pesticides
Plantwise facilitates the development and distribution of
information resources/tools (e.g. pest management
decision guides) to support the implementation of IPM
Policy Statements

46. Use of Pesticides (continued)
Within the knowledge bank and other Plantwise
information resources, all references to internationally-
restricted pesticides are avoided
Policy Statements

47. Plant health management in Nepal
Yubak Dhoj G. C., PhD
Program Director
Ministry of Agricultural Development
Nepal
Harihar Bhawan
++ 977 98511 28 1 29
yubakgc@yahoo.com
www.ppdnepal.gov.np

48. Nepalese Agriculture
Predominantly an agricultural country, 65.5%
Major contribution in GDP: 42%
Considerable scope: Increasing food production
Un acceptable losses of biotic and abiotic factors: 30-35%
Majority of growers: illiterate
No or low attention on plant health improvement
Formidable challenges in meeting food safety rules and standards

49. Scientists
Solutions
Techniques
Research
Farmers
Lack of Guidance
Crop Losses
Plant Clinics

50. clinics are seen as the ‘missing link’ between farmers and
expert institutions
extension workers are able to reach more farmers in short
time and at low cost
farmer demand is captured directly at the clinics
clinics are vehicles for dissemination of IPM technologies
clinics help their communities stay alert to new diseases and
emerging epidemics, and
valuable synergies can be created between actors of the
‘healthcare system’
Some Reasons for the Rapid
Adoption of Plant Clinics:

51. Plant Clinics under Plantwise-Nepal
Partnership
• Plant clinics initiated through Global Plant Clinic in 2008
• Conducted mobile and permanent clinics with Government
and NGOs
• Plantwise launched in 2012 by CABI South Asia – India
• Partnership established with agreements (involving
Government i.e. MoAD, Academia and NGOs)
• 71 persons trained on different modules
• 18 clinics conducted started at different districts of Nepal
• 28 fact sheets produced, data collection in process
• Very encouraging response from farmers
• Plan to involve extension and IPM programmes for up-
scaling by the Government in coming years

52. 6
Importance of plant clinics
Stimulates new networks,
improves collaboration
Strengthening farmers
with healthy crops
Surveillance of diseases
Awareness Direct help to growers
Gathers demand (for control)
and supplies technologies
Crop Management
How plant
health clinics
work

53. Results so far
Kick start, 2008/09: CABI
Initial emphasis: Capacity
building
Systematic penetration in GoN :
2011 by PPD and CABI India
Module I Training : January
2011, PPD and CABI India
Module II: April 2012 (PPD)
Module II: January 2012, PPD
and local experts, 25 Officers
Module II: August 2012: PPD
and CABI, Plantwise, 30
participants
Module III: September 2012,
PPD and CABI Plantwise, 30
participants

55. Implementing Plantwise in Nepal
Elementary
Step
Secondary
Step
Technical Step Plant Health
System
Studying about
the crop- pest
scenario
Capacity building
of plant protection
officers
Linking clinics to
diagnostic labs
Trained capacity
available for
National Plant
Health System
Discussion with
NPPO and match
mandates with
Government
priority areas
Practical
trainings on
diagnosis and
conducting clinics
Scientific
backstopping and
validation of data
Linking diagnostic
labs to backstop
clinics
Layout plan for
working in Nepal
with Government
of Nepal
Conducting
clinics as
frontline workers
in dealing with
farmers
Feed the
validated in
Knowledge bank
Embedding plant
clinics in
Government
system

56. Lessons learnt
Poor knowledge on plant problem diagnosis skills
Advisory services: pesticide dealers
Seeking cure without sample diagnosis
Control measures: On guess
Result: losses in production, monetary value, non-target effects
of chemical
Plant clinic: Lately introduced
CABI: great support in capacity building and clinical activities
Government involvement: lately
Plant clinics: Important components of IPM and food security
Serve as a channel for communicating with farmers on emerging
pest problems

57. Future needs:
Capacity building of the Govt staff, farmers, input dealers
Functional role: Govt (strength of infrastructure and
human resources)
Supportive role: Research, Teaching Institutes and
Private organization
Support: External (CABI and multi-partners association)
Government role: Streamlining and scaling up
Greater emphasis to the program-regularization

58. Thank you!

59. IMPLEMENTATION OF PLANTWISE
IN
SIERRA LEONE
I. M. O. SHAMIE
Director of Crops (MAFFS)

60. HOW IT STARTED

61. Organisation
Who is involved?
Clinic
implementation
Regional
Coordination
National
authority
MAFFS/Crops
Division/Crop
Protection Services
District Crop
Protection offices
MAFFS Crop
Protection Officers
MAFFS /Projects/
District Councils
NATC/Njala
University/FBC/
GAFSP/COOPI/IITA

62. Partnership between Plantwise & the NPPO
• National responsible organisation for Plantwise =
the NPPO
• Plant doctors are extension agents working for the
MAFFS
• Plant doctors support general surveillance activities:
o Part of the national Early Warning System (EWS)
o Clinic reports are collected and sent to Crop
Protection Services HQ
• Phytosanitary services alerts plant doctors of
emerging issues
• Plant doctors hold meetings with the communities to
raise awareness about emerging issues.

63. Results so far
• 36 clinics providing advice to farmers in 13
districts
• MAFFS signed a Partnership Statement and Data
Sharing Agreement with PW
• Plantwise activities included in MAFFS, Crop
Protection Services and the Sierra Leone
Agriculture Research Institute (SLARI), NATC
Njala staff, District Agricultural Officers ‘ annual
performance contracts.
• Staff appointed in MAFFS with new ToRs to
coordinate PW activities and data processing.

64. • Crops Division has also signed MoU with GAFSP of
the SCP/CAADP to establish 50 plant clinics at the
ABCs
• MAFFS in collaboration with the District Councils
to provide funds for running plant clinics.
• NATC staff have started running plant clinics to
encourage students to become interested in PW
activities.
• Recommendations have been made to NATC/Njala
University to incorporate plant doctor training into
their curriculum.
• PW has established a Sierra Leone‐specific
knowledge bank website

65. Lessons learnt
• Communication between plant health stakeholders is
key.
• nstitutionalisation of plant clinics by the MAFFS is
critical for sustainability
• Champions at all levels of operation an ingredient for
success
• Partners realizing PW role in facilitating their success
builds enthusiasm for participation
• Need to be ready to respond to increased demand

66. Next steps
• Identifying 25 ABCs for locating plant clinics, and
training of 50 plant doctors for running of the new
clinics
• Link plant clinics with newly established Agricultural
Business Centres at 48 sites across the country
• Further strengthen the plant clinic data management
process
• Using data from clinics to identify major pests
• Developing extension materials such as pest
management decision guides to support plant
doctors as they give advice

67. Key message
• Plantwise activities complement IPPC‐
related activities
o Plant clinic data support pest surveillance
o The clinics build farmers confidence on the
services provided by MAFFS and a link for
communicating on emerging pest problems.

68. THANK YOU

69. PLANTWISE ACTIVITIES IN
TANZANIA
Plantwise Activities in Tz started
immediately after the inception
w/shop held in April 2012
Mkondo, Cornelius Fabian
Assistant Director, Plant Health Services

70. Launching of Plantwise program in
Tanzania in 2012: Support from
policy makers must be sought

71. •To transfer knowledge for smallholder farmers
•It is therefore a community based approach that empowers
farmers to take field level decision in managing pests
•To enable farmers lose less of their crops and therefore feed
more people
•For Tanzania, the approach is in line with Integrated Pest
Management, a national policy in plant protection
•Early detection of pest incidences leads to minimum use of
pesticides, therefore saving cost (profitability factor) and
minimize pesticide impact on the environment and human
health
OBJECTIVES OF PLANT CLINICS

72. Activities after the w/shop
Training of Plant Doctors
Distribution of plant clinics materials
Establishment of Plant clinics
Running of Plant Clinics
CAPACITY BUILDING OF THE EXISTING EXTENSION
SYSTEM

73. Activities after the w/shop
 Follow up and technical back stopping of
plant clinics activities
 Development of fact sheets
 Preparation of G & Y list for plant clinics
 Debriefing MAFS activities of plant clinics
 Review and planning Plantwise meetings

74. Plant clinics testing requires
working toolkit eg dissecting kits

75. Plantwise partner & stakeholder w/shop to review
progress & achievements of the 2012 & Planning of
Plantwise activities for 2013

76. Plantwise Partners & Stakeholders involvement
in running of Plant Clinic: Awareness creation to
councilors (Local Govt policy makers)

77. Achievements
 More than 500 farmers are aware of the new Maize
Lethal Necrosis Disease in Africa which was reported
for the first time in Kenya.
 Plant Clinics has created more demand fo rimproved
extension services delivery especially outreach
 It is a motivation for extension agents to serve
farmers
 Plant clinics is a means to link farmers with research
and extension
 It has drawn support from Local Governments for a
possibility of future financial support

78. Challenges
 Limited capacity to meet increasing
demand from farmers
 Limited resources to train more plant
doctors and acquire associated tools
 Further increase awareness of policy
makers esp local governments
 Lack of reliable means of transport for
effective outreach

79. Target for 2013
 To train 24 more plant doctors before
July 2013
 To establish 12 more plant clinics in
Northern, Eastern and central zone
Before July 2013
 To do more awareness creation to the
district authority in East and central
zone before June 2013

80. Thank you for listening
By Cornelius Fabian Mkondo