International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences

The International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences (IAPPS) has the goal of gathering the results of plant protection research worldwide and making them globally available to science and practice. To this end the organisation periodically publishes the Plant Protection Magazine and every four years organises an international congress, the latest of which took place in Berlin (IPPC 2015)

History
The IAPPS was founded in 1946 during the first International Plant Congress in Louvain, Belgium. The first president of the organisation was Olaf Freyberg of Malmö, Sweden, who made the following comment: The world needs a plant protection organization, and not only to plan future congresses, but much more provide a platform for the discussion of current research results amongst scientists.

Over the years a newsletter has been periodically published, a yearbook has appeared, and congresses have been held. Every four years international congresses have been held in various parts of the globe. Plant protection scientists and agricultural research societies from all over the world are represented in the governing body. The IAPPS organisation now has 15 regional offices. The International Plant Protection Congress in Berlin in 2015 meetings was organized by the German Phytomedical Society (Deutsche Phytomedizinische Gesellschaft), the Julius Kuehn Institute and the German Association of Industrialpartners for Agriculture.

Congress - Year Venue; President, Organisers

 * 1- 1946     Louvain,   Belgium;   Dr. A.  Strassens
 * 2- 1949     London, England;   Viscount Bledisloe
 * 3- 1952     Paris, France;   Dr. Jean Lefevre
 * 4- 1957     Hamburg, Germany;   Prof.  H. Richter
 * 5- 1963     London, England;   Sir Robert Robinson
 * 6- 1967     Vienna, Austria;   Prof. F. Beran
 * 7- 1970     Paris, France;   Dr.Jean Bustarret / Dr. M. Colas
 * 8- 1975     Moscow, USSR;   Dr. Ivan Churayev / Dr. A. A. Goltsov
 * 9- 1979     Washington, DC;   Dr. James D. Horsfall  Dr. Bill Tweedy/APS
 * 10- 1983     Brighton, UK;   Dr. Leonard Broadbent    / Dr. E. Lester
 * 11- 1987     Manila, Philippines;  Dr. Jose Velsaco/ Dr. Edwin Magallona
 * 12- 1991     Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;   Mr. Omuz F. Rivaldo/ Christiano W. Simon
 * 13- 1995     The Hague, Netherlands;   Dr. Johan Dekker/ Prof. Dr. Jan Zadoks
 * 14- 1999     Jerusalem, Israel;   Dr. Yoram Rossler/ Dr. Jaacov Katan
 * 15- 2004     Beijing, P.R. China;   Hans Herren/IAPPS/ Dr. Cheng  Zhuo-min/ CSPP L. Apple/IAPPS
 * 16- 2007     Glasgow, Scotland;   Hans Herren/IAPPS/ Dr. David V. Alford/BCPC E.A.Heinrichs/IAPPS
 * 17- 2011     Honolulu, Hawaii;   Geoff Norton / Ray Martyn/APS B. G.Tweedy/IAPPS  E. A. Heinrichs/IAPPS
 * 18- 2015     Berlin, Germany;   Geoff Norton/ Falko Feldmann DPG Geoff Norton/IAPPS E.A. Heinrichs/IAPPS
 * 19 2019      Hyderabad, India;  Geoff Norton/IAPPS/ Hari C Sharma and Rajan Sharma/ICRISAT/ E. A.  Heinrichs/IAPPS