- Address El-Harrach, Algiers Province, Algeria
- Timeing 3 - 7 November 2025
Symposia - The 14th Arab Congress of Plant Protection
Major Happenings
14th ACPP 2025 General Congress Program
Symposium One: Use of artificial intelligence and other new innovations in optimizing pest management
01
November 3, 2025
The role of plant protection in achieving food security in the Arab region
Dr. Abdelhakeem El-Waer
Assistant to the FAO Director General and Director of the Near East and North Africa Regional Office, FAO, Cairo, Egypt.
02
November 3, 2025
Use of decision-making tools to enhance implementation of integrated pest management.
Dr. Vittorio Rossi
Department of Sustainable Crop Production, University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy.
03
November 3, 2025
Advances in the use of high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technology to detect plant pathogens and its adoption in implementing agricultural quarantine regulations
Dr. Maher Al Rwahnih
University of California at Davis, USA.
04
November 3, 2025
A novel approach to combat plant pathogens: genome editing of rice for enhancing resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae
Dr. Boris Szurek
IRD, FRANCE.
05
November 3, 2025
Use of remote sensing for crop diseases surveillance
Dr. Gerald Blasch
CIMMYT, Mexico.
06
November 3, 2025
Use of biotechnology in plant protection
Dr. Lakhdar Khelifi
National Higher School of Agronomy, Algiers, Algeria.
Symposium Two: Innovations to improve pest management and enhance plant health under Climate change conditions
01
November 4, 2025
Plant breeding to improve host resistance to pests under climate change conditions
Dr. Diego Rubiales
Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Spanish National Research Council, Cordoba, Spain.
02
November 4, 2025
Effects of climate change on plant health: are beneficial microbes and their metabolites a possible solution?
Dr. Francesco Vinale
University of Naples Federico II, Italy.
03
November 4, 2025
How can we maintain crops productivity under climate change and soil salinization?
Dr. Stanley Lutts
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL-Louvain-la-Neuve), Belgium.
04
November 4, 2025
Endophytic fungi: a hidden treasure towards plant pathogens management in a changing environment
Dr. Ahmed M. Abdel-Azeem
Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt.
05
November 4, 2025
The use of allelochemicals in enhancing soil and plant health
Dr. Narwal Shamsher
India
Symposium Three: Invasive and newly emerging pests in the Arab region and means to reduce their negative effect on food security
01
November 6, 2025
Addressing emerging plant pests is crucial for safeguarding fruit tree crops in the Arab countries
Dr. Khaled Djelouah
CIHEAM- Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari, Italy.
02
November 6, 2025
Importance of risk assessment of introduction and establishment of emerging pests in the Mediterranean basin
Dr. Juan A. Navas-Cortes
High Council for Scientific Research, Cordoba, Spain.
03
November 6, 2025
Management of north Africa-Middle East (NAFME) cryptic whitefly haplotypes to mitigate begomoviruses spread in the Arab region
Dr. Muhammad S. Shahid
College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman.
04
November 6, 2025
Date palm invasive and newly emerging pests and innovative measures to reduce their negative impacts on dates production
Dr. Ibrahim Al-Jboory
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Baghdad, Iraq.
Symposium Four: Plant health and agricultural quarantine in the Arab region and means of improving monitoring of quarantine pests.
01
November 7, 2025
The role of CGIAR Germplasm Health Units in enhancing the germplasm phytosanitary safety and mitigation of transboundary pest spread
Dr. Lava Kumar
IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria.
02
November 7, 2025
The importance of phytosanitary measures in mitigating the spread of transboundary plant pests in the NENA region
Dr. Thaer Yaseen
FAO/RNE, Cairo, Egypt.
03
November 7, 2025
Working together for clean plants: the national clean plant network example for an Arab regional network to support agricultural quarantine and develop plant disease control programs
Dr. Maher Al Rwahnih
University of California at Davis, USA.
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