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Sustainable Food Security – Resilient and resource-efficient value chains · Challenges for disease management: Perennial crops in the tropics and sub-tropics

Specific Challenge:Favourable conditions for disease development in the tropics and sub-tropics hit perennial crops[1] particularly hard, especially in uniform plantings. Overall, losses are thought to be 50 to 100% higher in tropical than in temperate regions; estimates of the former range from 30…