Alain Ratnadass

Agricultural entomologist, holding a MSc and a PhD from AgroParisTech and a DSc (Habilitation) from the University of Lyons, France, with a 42-year experience in crop protection, mainly during long-term assignments, of which 19 years in West & Central Africa and 16 years in the South West Indian Ocean. Worked on a variety of crops (either pre- or postharvest, or both), particularly cereals, legumes, roots & tubers, vegetables, fruit crops and industrial crops, a variety of pests (Hemiptera: plant bugs & aphids; Lepidoptera: stem borers, fruitworms, defoliators; Diptera: fruit flies & midges). Main research thrusts encompassed host plant resistance, plant disease-insect pest interactions, electrochemical homeostasis, Integrated Pest Management (IPM), Agroecological Crop Protection (ACP), Bioprotection and “One Health-smart crop protection”.