Objectives of IAPPS

• Provide for the organization, management and oversight of the International Plant Protection Congresses (IPPCs) as major international fora for integrating and disseminating crop protection information and technology.
• Solicit individual, affiliate, associate, and corporate members of IAPPS as a means to effect programmatic integration within the plant protection sciences and to enhance communication among plant protection scientists.
• Establish eight (8) regional networks each managed by a Regional Network Coordinator (RNC) and under the policy guidance of a Regional IAPPS Council.
• Promote the application of the integrated pest management (IPM) approach in research and in the application of the plant protection sciences.
• Initiate and facilitate the coordination and integration of research and extension in the plant protection sciences on a regional and global basis.
• Organize regional meetings through the Regional Network Centers to report upon and discuss collaborative research and extension programs and to plan future research and pilot extension activities.
• Sponsor a plant protection journal that will feature articles on integrated pest management research and extension.
• Provide, through special studies and resolutions, counsel and policy guidance for the global plant protection community.
• Disseminate current regulatory and plant protection information on a global basis through an interactive internet web site.
• Promote the importance of intensified plant protection programs as a means of reducing the high losses to potential production (40+%) of major crops and increasing productivity to feed the world's growing population.

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