Farm Pest Blitz

Farm pest blitz

A bug-sized version of biological warfare that can protect crops such as coffee or mangoes may be aided by new rules meant to be agreed in 2010 under a U.N. treaty for safeguarding nature, experts say.

Some countries may be denying others access to a potential tiny army of parasites or other creatures able to control farm pests because of the current lack of U.N. rules on "access and benefit sharing" of biodiversity.

Ahmed Djoghlaf, head of the Secretariat of the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity, told Reuters he was fairly confident that agreement will be reached on new rules at a U.N. conference set for Japan in October,

Ahmed Djoghlaf, head of the Secretariat of the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity, told Reuters.

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