Agriculture is a key sector for the economy of many countries
and it can be potentially exposed to deliberate attacks which can
have dramatic economic consequences in the food, feed, and fibre
sectors. Intentional introduction of certain microbes may have
serious rebounds even on human health when food results
contaminated after harvesting of crops and processing of raw
materials. Programmes aimed at attacks against agriculture and the
agro-food sector through bioweapons were conducted in the past and
still in recent years this kind of threads are documented.
Prevention and preparedness are the two basic approaches to
maximize food security against any sort of tampering, whether
natural, inadvertent or intentional. The NATO funded project Tools
for crop biosecurity was designed to strengthen the cooperation
among U.S., Europe and Israel in the field of crop biosecurity and
to generate awareness on how the psychological, economic and
cultural consequences of crop bioterrorism, especially attacks on
soft targets such as crop seeds, could have a disproportionate
adverse effect on Mediterranean agriculture and, more generally, on
society.
This book illustrates the achievements of the project originated
from the workshops organized during the project itself taking in
consideration main microbiological threads posed to crops, the
tools to recognize and to control them, the needs for international
cooperation and research funds to create networks which can face
emerging risks for agriculture."
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