The threat of alien invasive insect and mite species to food security in Africa and the need for a continent-wide response

The global burden of pathogens and pests on major food crops

(2019) Serge Savary et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Superior basal and plastic thermal responses to environmental heterogeneity in invasive exotic stemborer Chilo partellus Swinhoe over indigenous Busseola fusca (Fuller) and Sesamia calamistis Hampson

(2018) Reyard Mutamiswa et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Economic impacts of invasive alien species on African smallholder livelihoods

(2017) Corin F. Pratt et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

The potential distribution of cassava mealybug (Phenacoccus manihoti), a threat to food security for the poor

(2017) Tania Yonow et al.   PLoS One

Modeling the risk of invasion and spread of Tuta absoluta in Africa

(2016) Ritter Y.A. Guimapi et al.   Ecological Complexity

Mapping the global state of invasive alien species: patterns of invasion and policy responses

(2016) Anna J. Turbelin et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The potential global distribution of Chilo partellus, including consideration of irrigation and cropping patterns

(2016) Tania Yonow et al.   JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE

Global threat to agriculture from invasive species

(2016) Dean R. Paini et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global threats from invasive alien species in the twenty-first century and national response capacities

(2016) Regan Early et al.   Nature Communications

First Report of Outbreaks of the Fall Armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (J E Smith) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), a New Alien Invasive Pest in West and Central Africa

(2016) Georg Goergen et al.   PLoS One

Species Composition, Distribution, and Seasonal Abundance of Liriomyza Leafminers (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Under Different Vegetable Production Systems and Agroecological Zones in Kenya

(2015) C. N. Foba et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Predicting the Impact of Temperature Change on the Future Distribution of Maize Stem Borers and Their Natural Enemies along East African Mountain Gradients Using Phenology Models

(2015) Sizah Mwalusepo et al.   PLoS One

Spinosad and the Tomato Borer Tuta absoluta: A Bioinsecticide, an Invasive Pest Threat, and High Insecticide Resistance

(2014) Mateus R. Campos et al.   PLoS One

Synonymization of key pest species within theBactrocera dorsalisspecies complex (Diptera: Tephritidae): taxonomic changes based on a review of 20 years of integrative morphological, molecular, cytogenetic, behavioural and chemoecological data

(2014) MARK K. SCHUTZE et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Assessment of ripening stages of Cavendish dwarf bananas as host or non-host toBactrocera invadens

(2013) D. Cugala et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY

Increasing Food Production in Africa by Boosting the Productivity of Understudied Crops

(2012) Zerihun Tadele et al.   Agronomy-Basel

Bactrocera invadens(Diptera: Tephritidae), a New Invasive Fruit Fly Pest for the Afrotropical Region: Host Plant Range and Distribution in West and Central Africa

(2011) Georg Goergen et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

The invasive South American tomato pinworm, Tuta absoluta, continues to spread in Afro-Eurasia and beyond: the new threat to tomato world production

(2011) Nicolas Desneux et al.   JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE

Control of invasive Liriomyza leafminer species and compliance with food safety standards by small scale snow pea farmers in Kenya

(2010) Zachary Maina Gitonga et al.   CROP PROTECTION

Patterns of plant pest introductions in Europe and Africa

(2008) Jeff K. Waage et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS