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BioAg World Academy BioAg World Academy: Advancing Pest Management Bridging Biology and Field Practice: BioAg World Academy Drives Next-Gen Pest Management By Umit Ersöz, BAW Academy BU Lead at GBL BioAg World Academy is the education and knowledge platform of Global BioAg Linkages, created to accelerate learning, innovation, and global collaboration in the BioAg and…

Global BioAgTech Pioneering Innovation Runner-Up Award 2026 Provivi’s Multi-Format Pheromone Platform for Fall Armyworm Bridging Scalability, Sustainability, and IPM By Thaís Andrade, Ph.D., Provivi Inc. Agriculture is facing a fundamental challenge: How can we continue to protect crops effectively without harming the ecosystem? This question becomes particularly urgent when dealing with Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda,…

Expert Interview The Future of Biocontrol with Jan Scherrer Connecting science, regulation, and farmer adoption Compiled by Sue B, Media Manager and KRM, GBA and GBL | Interview with Jan Scherrer, CEO at ABIM AG With over 20 years’ management and leadership experience in the pharmaceutical industry – including roles at Pfizer, Aspen Pharma, Otsuka…

Expert Interview Inside Living Soil and Nature-Based Farming Balancing natural rhythms with real-world farm business Compiled by Sue B, Media Manager and KRM, GBA and GBL | Interview with Philippe Cognet, Chief Sales and Strategic Officer at HELLO NATURE Philippe Cognet is the Chief Sales and Strategic Officer at Hello Nature, a global leader in…

Owning the technology is not the same as using it Use at least one digital technology 84% Use remote sensing (satellite / drone) 17% Combines with yield-mapping installed but NOT used 27% 0 20 40 60 80 100 share (%) The same field, two truths From the road: one green sheet After harvest: the yield…

BioAg World DIGEST AFRICA SUMMER 2026 First records, 2016 Status in September 2018 Confirmed presence Suspected, not officially confirmed Declared absent (Lesotho) 4 countries in 2016 28 countries in 2017 44 countries by September 2018 [cite: 59] Africa Making Biologicals Viable: What Africa Teaches the World From pioneering biological control to building agriculture’s missing data…

SUMMER 2026 BioAg World NORTH AMERICA DIGEST [cite: 56] North America From Connected Cabs To Weed-zapping Lasers How North America Is Learning To Farm Plant By Plant By Nish Malhotra., Business Development Lead and PMP, GBL and GBI The fields that popularized GPS autosteer and massive tractors are discovering that true efficiency isn’t about bigger…

Asia When Smart Agriculture Meets BioAg Emerging pathways to more precise, practical and scalable biological agriculture in Asia By Van Tran, Business Development Manager, APAC, GBL A more promising phase of agricultural innovation is taking shape across China and Vietnam. Drones are joining service networks, satellite imagery is informing crop decisions, and biological products are…

Precision AgTech Precision AgTech, ensuring biologicals work consistently What the World led by Europe are Building By Khushbu Sindha, Marketing Communications, Content & Editorial Coordinator, BAW Digest A synthetic pesticide can sit on a leaf for days and still do its job. A living biological, a fungal spore, a beneficial bacterium, a predatory insect has…

Global Landscape Global Landscape Evolution of Precision AgTech Precision AgTech 2026: Mapping the Technologies Transforming Agriculture to Sustainable Farming By Global BAW Digest Team INTRODUCTION: WHY PRECISION FARMING MATTERS Farming is changing, but one thing has not: no two fields behave exactly the same. Soil, water, weather, pests and crop growth can all vary within…