The Global Burden of Crop Loss initiative aims to provide rigorous, authoritative, and timely evidence on impacts, causes, and risk factors of crop loss. This evidence base will inform priorities and support better decisions to direct funding, policy, and research efforts to reduce crop loss at the farm level. The Global Burden of Crop Loss will gather data and produce outputs to improve our ability to understand and predict the impact of emerging diseases, provide accurate and relevant information for decision-makers, allocate resources between diseases and systematically develop investment in, and capacity of, plant health systems.

Session details

Monday 26th October @ 14:00-16:30 UTC - Sessions 1 & 2: Introduction and calculating yield losses

Introduction

• Introduction to the Global Burden of Crop Loss
• Overview of the purpose and format of the technical sessions
• Rationale for starting with maize as a case study

Calculating yield losses

• Technical discussion of how yield losses can be estimated, using maize as a case study
• Identify key information and data sets needed to produce the estimates for various levels: national, regional, global.
• Identify other crops besides maize that have sufficient information for calculating yield loss

To join these sessions, please follow this zoom link

Tuesday 27th October @ 15:00-16:30 UTC - Session 3: Calculating attribution of biotic and abiotic causes to yield losses

• Technical discussion of how yield losses can be attributed to either abiotic or biotic factors; discuss how biotic factors can be further categorized by pest (or category of pest)
• Discuss key information and data sets needed to produce the estimates at various levels: national, regional, global

To join these sessions, please follow this zoom link

Wednesday 28th October @15:00-16:30 UTC - Session 4: Calculating the economic burden of yield losses

• Technical discussion of how to calculate economic burden from yield loss caused by 1) biotic factors and 2) abiotic factors.
• Discuss key information and data needed to apportion the economic burden caused by yield loss to the farm, community, state, and national levels including both domestic and international markets
• Discuss how the “cost of control” to avoid pest-caused losses can be captured in economic burden

Thursday 29th October @16:00-17:30 UTC & Friday 30th October @ 8:00-9:30 UTC - Session 5: Wrap-up and next steps

• Report on major points from previous Sessions 2,3 and 4;
• Outline major activities to undertake after the workshop
• Note: Session will run twice to allow attendees to choose their preferred time.

To attend all sessions please register for each separately. Recordings of all the sessions will be posted on croploss.org