ISPP Subject Matter Committee: Crop Losses

Chair Address, Phone/Mobile, Email	Andrea Ficke Department of Fungal Diseases, Division of Biotechnology and Plant Health, Norwegian Institute for Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO) Tel.: 0047 92431557 Email: andrea.ficke@nibio.no, www.purpest.eu
Co-chair Address, Phone/Mobile, Email	Serge Savary INRA-AGIR, 24 Chemin de Borde Rouge, Auzeville, CS52627, F-31326 Castanet-Tolosan cedex, France, Email: Serge.Savary@inra.fr Neil Roberts Quantitative Biology & Epidemiology Research Group, Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, California, USA, Email: nmcroberts@ucdavis.edu
Established:	The ISPP Crop Loss Subject Matter Committee was created at the ICPP Congress of Beijing, August 26, 2013.
Objectives/Focus issues of the SMC	A key focus and global issue that the SMC addresses is the absence of a global, open, collaborative repository of crop loss data. This is a major obstacle for fact-based Science and research prioritization in plant pathology (and in the plant sciences in general). Activities of the SMC are meant to mobilize the scientific community on this challenge. Assessing, understanding and communicating losses due to diseases is essential to prioritize research in those areas that are most relevant to advance the impact of plant pathology.
About the SMC	The SMC Crop Losses was established at the ICPP 2023, in Beijing in order to make losses due to diseases a central topic in the global scientific community (Education, Research, and Extension). Over the past decade, the ISPP Crop Losses subject matter committee has been able to conduct two, global, networked activities on the impacts of diseases and on the losses caused by plant pathogens.
Coming events (next workshops/meetings)	For the end of 2025: Symposium on Assessment methods for Losses due to plant pests and diseases.
Past events	Members of the Crop Loss SMC have met at the Congresses of Beijing (2013), Boston (2018) and Lyon (2023). During these meetings, collective work on crop loss data, data analysis, and syntheses have been discussed.
Committee Activities	Organization of "International Symposium on Crop Losses". The merger of the ISPP Crop Loss SMC with the ISPP Postharvest Pathology SMC to a new SMC called Pre- and Post-Harvest Pathology and Losses was discussed during the committee meeting in Lyon (2023), but has not been pursued, due to lack of interest. A website on the Global Plant Health Assessment (GPHA) has been established (GPHAwebsite). A workshop on the GPHA, phase two - Future Plant Health is taking place in Toulouse between the 20-22nd of November, 2024. A web-based global, open, collaborative repository of crop loss data has been discussed and initiated during the ICPP meeting in Lyon. A symposium on Assessment methods for Losses due to plant pests and diseases is being prepared for the end of 2025.
Reports	2018-2023:  ISPP SMC Report 2023 Crop Loss.pdf 2013-2018: ISPP SMC Report 2018 Crop Loss.pdf 2008-2013: ISPP SMC Report 2008 Crop Loss.htm
CURRENT Committee Members	Andrea Ficke Norway Andrea.Ficke@bioforsk.no  Kira Bowen USA bowenkl@auburn.edu Lilian Amorim Brazil lilian.amorim@usp.br  Neil McRoberts USA nmcroberts@ucdavis.edu Zanhong Ma China mazh@cau.edu.cn J. Kumar India jkumar56@gmail.com Etienne Duveiller CIMMYT e.duveiller@gmail.com Annika Djurle Sweden Annika.Djurle@slu.se  Lise Nistrup Jørgensen Denmark LiseN.Jorgensen@agrsci.dk Matt Dickinson United Kingdom Matthew.Dickinson@nottingham.ac.uk Paul D Esker Costa Rica pde6@psu.edu  Didier Andrivon France Didier.Andrivon@rennes.inra.fr Wafaa El Khoury IFAD w.elkhoury@ifad.org  Clayton Hollier USA CHollier@agcenter.lsu.edu A. Murillo Williams Costa Rica adriana.murillowilliams@gmail.com Wopke van der Werf The Netherlands Wopke.vanderWerf@wur.nl  Paul S Teng Singapore paul.teng@nie.edu.sg  Jonathan  Atungwu IITA jojerat1@yahoo.com Nancy Castilla IRRI N.Castilla@irri.org Adam Sparks IRRI A.Sparks@irri.org Emerson Del Ponte Brazil edelponte@gmail.co  Luo Yong USA ygluo@ucanr.edu Dr. Yilin Zhou China yilinzhou6@yahoo.com.cn  Serge Savary France ssavary01@gmail.com
Publications	Savary, S., Willocquet, L., Pethybridge, S.J., Esker, P., McRoberts, N. and Nelson, A., 2019. The global burden of pathogens and pests on major food crops. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3(3):430-439.