Plantwise is an initative, led by CABI, to improve food security and the lives of the rural poor by reducing crop losses.

For every 1% reduction in crop losses, we can potentially help millions more people feed themselves. This can be done today – with no additional use of land, water, fertilizers or chemicals. Plantwise is reducing crop losses and improving lives by gathering, organising and disseminating vital knowledge about plant health.

With the right knowledge in the hands of smallholder farmers and the wider research community we can identify plant health problems earlier, provide treatment and best practice recommendations to combat pests and improve crop yields, and slow down the spread of plant pests and diseases around the world. Plantwise is gathering and disseminating knowledge in two ways: 1) via a network of plant clinics in the developing world to help the poorest farmers and 2) internationally via a knowledge bank.