key: cord-0824851-kzci2qnb
authors: Lamichhane, Jay Ram; Reay-Jones, Francis PF.
title: Editorial: Impacts of COVID-19 on global plant health and crop protection and the resulting effect on global food security and safety
date: 2020-09-04
journal: Crop Prot
DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2020.105383
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doc_id: 824851
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Agriculture, in general, is an input-intensive sector. Key agricultural inputs include 12 fertilizers, plant protection products (PPPs; that include conventional and bio-pesticides 13 or any other beneficial arthropod used for inundative and inoculative biological control, More specifically to the crop protection sector, crop losses due to pests (sensu lato that 23 includes animal pests, pathogens and weeds) may reach up to 80% (Oerke, 2006) . 

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J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f Declaration of interests ☒ The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. ☐The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: