Coffee Break Seminar: Forecasting risks from invasive pests like locusts affecting staple food crops in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Description:	Global Food Secuirty Coffee Break Seminar 3rd February 2023 Speaker: Dr Renata Retkute (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge) In this talk, Dr Retkute presents a novel framework for modelling desert locust population dynamics and spread which uses the knowledge of pest biology, climate and remote sensing data, wind trajectories (NAME, Met Office, UK) and Locust Hub (FAO) survey data.

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Global Food Secuirty Coffee Break Seminar 3rd February 2023
Speaker: Dr Renata Retkute (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge)

In this talk, Dr Retkute presents a novel framework for modelling desert locust population dynamics and spread which uses the knowledge of pest biology, climate and remote sensing data, wind trajectories (NAME, Met Office, UK) and Locust Hub (FAO) survey data.


Created:	2023-02-24 13:44
Collection:	Global Food Security
Publisher:	University of Cambridge
Copyright:	University of Cambridge
Language:	eng (English)


Abstract:	The period 2019–2021 was marked by one of the largest desert locust upsurges in two decades. As more areas will be under threat from new emerging pests due to the changing climate, there is increasing demand for approaches that combine mechanistic models and geospatial information. In this talk, Dr Retkute presents a novel framework for modelling desert locust population dynamics and spread which uses the knowledge of pest biology, climate and remote sensing data, wind trajectories (NAME, Met Office, UK) and Locust Hub (FAO) survey data. She demonstrates the capabilities of the framework to inform surveillance and management of desert locust with an operational focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. Speaker: Dr Renata Retkute is a Research Associate in the Plant Sciences Department, focusing on modelling spread of invasive pests (desert locust) and arboviruses (banana bunchy top virus). Her previous work was on developing statistical methods for linking geostatistical maps and transmission models for neglected tropical diseases.

Abstract:

The period 2019–2021 was marked by one of the largest desert locust upsurges in two decades. As more areas will be under threat from new emerging pests due to the changing climate, there is increasing demand for approaches that combine mechanistic models and geospatial information.

In this talk, Dr Retkute presents a novel framework for modelling desert locust population dynamics and spread which uses the knowledge of pest biology, climate and remote sensing data, wind trajectories (NAME, Met Office, UK) and Locust Hub (FAO) survey data. She demonstrates the capabilities of the framework to inform surveillance and management of desert locust with an operational focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.

Speaker:

Dr Renata Retkute is a Research Associate in the Plant Sciences Department, focusing on modelling spread of invasive pests (desert locust) and arboviruses (banana bunchy top virus). Her previous work was on developing statistical methods for linking geostatistical maps and transmission models for neglected tropical diseases.

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