Construction of an Area-wide Management System for Transboundary Pest: The Case of Global Coordination and Its Implications for China

Abstract

Transboundary pests have posed a serious threat to food security in recent years, with outbreaks and rapid spread all over the world. For this reason, global transboundary pest management has made some progress with the support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). However, unresolved issues remain, such as the lack of relevant incentive and constraint rules, availability and long-term effectiveness of the technology to be improved, and lack of funds and financing mechanisms. Therefore, at the global level, relevant incentives and constraint mechanisms, increasing aid to developing countries, and the formulation of long-term global area-wide pest management programs should be developed. Furthermore, China's domestic area-wide pest management system and farmland ecological diversity should be developed to alleviate the dilemma of global cooperative transboundary pest control caused by common-pool resources.