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

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’

What do we know?

1. Control and eradication costs are high 2. Production losses3. Market losses 4. Environmental damage5. Loss of native species

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

• 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

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

Additional work

Dr. Linda Fernandez, UC Riverside

CABI- Megan Quinlan

Other RPPOs?

Thank you!