Wednesday 11 June 2025, 10:00 – 11:30 Europe/Rome
BACKGROUND
What if every plant health expert and enthusiast had free, high-quality capacity development
materials available anytime, everywhere, even with limited internet connectivity?
The IPPC Plant Health Campus is a new global learning platform developed by the IPPC Secretariat
and the FAO elearning Academy, with support from the European Union. It provides multilingual
certified self-paced e-learning courses, practical guides, and tools, on key phytosanitary systems, to
support national implementation, personal learning, and academic integration.
The webinar can be attended as an interactive online session on Zoom, where sharing perspectives
and asking questions to experts is encouraged. The session is also recorded and therefore available at
any time, through the FAO elearning Academy: elearning.fao.org.
OBJECTIVES OF THE SESSION
- Get a full overview of the platform, including a live demonstration of its key features
- Learn how plant protection organizations and other stakeholders are already using the IPPC Plant Campus in their daily work
- Explore how the Campus can be integrated into national capacity development efforts and academic programmes
- Connect with others working to strengthen phytosanitary capacity globally
LANGUAGE
English with French simultaneous interpretation
SPEAKERS
The webinar will open with remarks from Mr. Yurdi Yasmi, Director of the Plant Production and
Protection Division (NSP) at FAO. Closing remarks will be delivered by H.E. Martin Selmayr,
Ambassador of the European Union.
The technical webinar will feature:
Sarah Brunel, Implementation and Facilitation Unit Lead, IPPC Secretariat, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Cristina Petracchi, Head, FAO elearning Academy, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Saliou Niassy, Coordinator, African Union Inter-African Phytosanitary Council (AU-IAPSC)
Temarama Anguna-Kamara, CPM Bureau Representative, Southwest Pacific and Head of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Cook Islands
Mweene Kambombi, National Phytosanitary Evaluation Coordinator and Plant Health Inspector, Zambia Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI)
Claude Bragard, Professor and Plant Health Specialist, Catholic University of Louvain
