{"id":36530,"date":"2025-08-04T11:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/?p=36530"},"modified":"2025-08-04T11:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:40:09","slug":"escuelas-mundiales-de-control-biologico-compartiran-su-conocimiento-en-congreso-internacional-del-catie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/2025\/08\/04\/escuelas-mundiales-de-control-biologico-compartiran-su-conocimiento-en-congreso-internacional-del-catie\/","title":{"rendered":"Global biological control schools will share their knowledge at CATIE's international congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>The event will take place from September 16 to 18 at the CATIE campus in Costa Rica, with the participation of international experts, producers, and innovative companies in the field.<\/em><\/li><\/ul><p>As part of the current trend toward sustainable and regenerative agriculture, biological pest and disease control has become increasingly important. This practice takes advantage of the natural enemies of organisms that cause damage or disease to food crops, thereby contributing to the reduction of synthetic pesticides.<\/p><p>This topic has been extensively studied by agricultural research centers around the world, and this year CATIE (Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center) will bring together the most important of these schools at the International Congress on Biological Control: \u201cTowards Regenerative and Sustainable Agriculture.\u201d The congress will bring together the experiences and contributions of the German, Spanish, Brazilian, American (US), Italian, and Central American schools.<\/p><p>\u201cWe need to produce healthier foods for consumers, and at the same time, markets are increasingly demanding foods with low chemical content. Every year, many chemical control molecules are removed from the market, hence the importance of biological control,\u201d explained Dr. Luis Pocasangre, director general of CATIE, who will be one of the main speakers at the conference on behalf of the Central American School.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/control-biologico-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/control-biologico-2.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/control-biologico-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/control-biologico-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/control-biologico-2-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/control-biologico-2-600x337.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><p>The congress will take place from September 16 to 18, 2025, at the CATIE campus in Turrialba, Costa Rica. In addition to the participation of leading international experts on the subject, it will feature contributions from producers who apply biological control on a daily basis on their farms and innovative private companies that implement this practice in Latin America and the Caribbean.<\/p><p>As part of the congress, there will also be a research poster competition on biological control, as well as a workshop on strengthening biological control in public-private projects.<\/p><p>General registration is now open at a cost of $600. Producers and students can participate in the conference at a special price of $420. To register and view the event program, please visit the website <a href=\"https:\/\/controlbiologico.catie.ac.cr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/controlbiologico.catie.ac.cr\/<\/a><\/p><p>This congress is part of CATIE's efforts to promote regenerative and sustainable agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean.<br><br><\/p><p><br><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"translation-block\"><strong>More information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Biological Control Congress Organizing Team<br>CATIE<br><a href=\"mailto:congresocontrolbiologico@catie.ac.cr\">congresocontrolbiologico@catie.ac.cr<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Written by:<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n<p>Alejandro Portilla Navarro<br>Communicator<br>Communications and Marketing Office<br>CATIE<br><a href=\"mailto:alejandro.portilla@catie.ac.cr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">alejandro.portilla@catie.ac.cr<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Como parte de la tendencia actual hacia una agricultura sostenible y regenerativa, el control biol\u00f3gico de plagas y enfermedades ha cobrado una considerable importancia. Mediante esta pr\u00e1ctica, se aprovechan los enemigos naturales de los organismos que causan da\u00f1os o enfermedades &hellip; <\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":36531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"pmpro_default_level":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36535,"href":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36530\/revisions\/36535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catie.ac.cr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}