On 10 June, SFA (then the Southern Hemisphere Association of Fresh Fruit Exporters) organized a well-attended webinar on bioinputs–products of plants, animals or microbes, capable of enhancing crop productivity, quality, or health. Moderated by Albert Coetzee of the Citrus Growers’ Association of Southern Africa and Nitasha Baijnath-Pillay of Hortgro, South Africa, the webinar featured presentations by:

  • Hendrik Pohl, horticulturalist, Holistic Horticulture (South Africa), on bioinputs, and how they can promote biodiversity and soil health (View PowerPoint presentation);
  • Jesica Monzon, biotechnologist at the Investment Centre of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, on regulatory frameworks for the registration and use of bioinputs in Latin America, and how legislators can promote investments in the bioinputs sector (View PowerPoint presentation);
  • Fabio Carlos Pevide, agronomist and head of regulatory affairs at Biotrop (Brazil), on how Brazilian legislation stimulates the development and use of bioinputs (View PowerPoint presentation);
  • Debbie Matteucci, chair of the South Africa Bioproducts Organisation, on the barriers to and drivers behind the development of the bioinputs industry in the country (View PowerPoint presentation); and
  • Thérèse Gohin, regulatory project officer at the International Biocontrol Manufacturers Association, on the regulatory framework for biocontrol products in the European Union and how this framework contrasts with that in the United States of America, and on how the use of biocontrol products can help growers in the Southern Hemisphere comply with maximum residue levels in destination countries (View PowerPoint presentation).

 

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