Impact Management
Plant industries have invested significant resources into developing pest resistant plant varieties, implementing integrated pest management strategies and negotiating area freedom protocols to enhance market access. This has resulted in production systems that are economically competitive and environmentally sustainable.
However these systems remain fragile in the face of risks posed by emergency plant pests and it is critical that appropriate tools are available to ensure that the impact of any incursion response is minimised
Goal
Reduced economic and social impact from incursions of emergency plant pests through new control, risk mitigation and recovery strategies.
Actions
- Develop tools to underpin optimal response strategies, area freedom protocols and pre-emptive crop management strategies, including the capacity to evaluate and validate incursion response strategies through predictive simulation systems.
- Develop capacity to respond to new virulence in emergency plant pests.
- Develop enhanced dis-infestation technologies for both imported and exported plant produce.
- Develop scientifically validated hygiene science strategies for incursion response.
- Develop novel control/containment/recovery strategies.
Benefits
- Improved assessment of the socio-economic impact of emergency plant pest incursions.
- Simulation tools to better manage emergency plant pest incursions.
- Identification of virulent biotypes to make better decisions for management of emergency plant pests.
- Improved dis-infestation science to increase safe imports and exports of plant products.
- Better crop destruction technologies that reduce the unnecessary loss of crops while controlling emergency plant pests.
Impact Management Research Projects
| Title | Leader |
| CRC40006: Russian Wheat Aphid | Dr Owain Edwards |
This project will improve level of preparedness for, and sustainable resistance to, the Russian wheat aphid and assist Australia's grain industry to remain free of Russian wheat more | |
| CRC40016: Pathogen Eradication Strategies | Dr Mark Sosnowski |
This project will provide alternative eradication strategies for emergency plant pest incursions on perennial crops. It will also reduce economic costs and social impact from emergency plant pest more | |
| CRC40024: Insect Eradication | Mr Bill Woods |
This project will develop effective and sustainable strategies to eradicate incursions of priority emergency plant pests. Light brown apple moth (LBAM) has been selected as the test species more | |
| CRC40049: A community based model to manage emergency plant pests | Prof Ian Falk |
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This project will develop new policies and strategies to improve the management of emergency plant pest incursions. It will increase community and indigenous participation to identify, more | |
