Of the global population of more than 7 billion people, some 800 million do not have enough to eat today. By 2050, the population is expected to exceed 9 billio

A thorough examination of the vital role plant health plays in guaranteeing global food security can be found in Plant Diseases and Food Security throughout the

This book is based on EU-funded project PLANTFOODSEC, covering intentional and unintentional threats to plant biosecurity and to food safety areas. Biosecurity

This collection of papers represents some of those given at the International Congress for Plant Pathology held in Turin in 2008 in the session with the title �