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Community seed banks in Ethiopia are preserving seeds of local crops to strengthen food security © Bioversity International/C.Fadda

Here’s a taste of some of the latest stories about plant health, including a study on the use of predator beetles as biocontrol for the destructive coffee berry borer, a look at the role of Ethiopia’s seedbanks in food security and turning barren land into banana orchards in Bangladesh.

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• Rwanda: 50 Best Farmers to Be Awarded Through Yield Competition
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 17^th October 2014

• Ethiopia: Ethiopia’s Seed Banks and the Search for Food Security
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 16^th October 2014

• Bangladesh: Leaf blight, sheath rot diseases affect fields
  The Daily Star, 15^th October 2014

• Argentina: Hail caused significant losses for pear
  Fresh Plaza, 15^th October 2014

• Bangladesh: Turning barren char land into big banana orchard
  Fresh Plaza, 13^th October 2014

• India: Banana aphids hit plantations, prices soar
  Fresh Plaza, 13^th October 2014

• Guyana: Pact signed for Suriname expertise to tackle black sigatoka
  Stabroek News, 12^th October 2014

• Predator beetle could chow down on coffee pest
  West Hawaii Today, 8^th October 2014

• Vietnam’s Mekong Delta farmers spend 1mn on crop protection in H1: GfK
  Tuoitrenews, 8^th October 2014

• Garlic injection could tackle tree diseases
  BBC News, 7^th October 2014

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