Visiting Food and Agriculture Organization to discuss modelling of locusts & transboundary plant pests and diseases. Excited to exchange ideas on strengthening global food security. 🌍🦗🌱

Parameterisation of epidemiological models from small field experiments: a case study of banana bunchy top virus transmission biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants

New publication with colleagues Cambridge Plant Epidemiology and Modelling CIMMYT Met Office Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research : Evaluating a landscape-scale model to forecast wheat stem rust doi.org/10.1088/1748-9… via IOP Environment

Now published Plants People Planet 🌱👥🌐 : Using remote sensing, modelling and socio-economic analysis, we identify priority areas and policy-relevant interventions for targeted banana bunchy top disease control in Benin. doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.7…

Controlling banana bunchy top disease in Benin: Crop protection strategies with socio-economic perspectives nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pp…

Excited to share Renata's new study in @plantspeoplepl on #banana bunchy top virus in West Africa! 🍌🛰️📊 Led by Renata Retkute with collaborators across Benin 🇧🇯 IITA and UQ Science #PlantHealth #FoodSecurity #Epidemiology

Now published: Evaluating a landscape-scale model to forecast wheat stem rust Led by Jake Smith with Met Office Science CIMMYT #EIAR 🇪🇹 Funded by Gates Foundation Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

Cost-effective early detection of banana bunchy top disease: insights from spatio-temporal modelling in Benin biorxiv.org/content/10.648… #biorxiv_plants

Cambridge Global Food Security Lunchtime Conversations: "The dynamics of agricultural pests: leveraging data from genome to landscapes" with Dr Renata Retkute & Dr Henry North. Fri 30 Jan 2026, 1.30–2.30pm Organised by GlobalFoodSecurity. tinyurl.com/498vvhhp

🍌🍌 Detection of #Banana #Diseases Based on #Landsat8 Data and Machine Learning ✍️ Renata Retkute et al. 🔗 brnw.ch/21wZkNR

The dynamics of agricultural pests: leveraging data from genome to landscapes 🌱🪲🐛🪰 Hear from Renata Retkute and Dr Henry North this Friday. #FoodSecurity #CropProtection

Understanding how and why farmers share banana planting material is key to tackling disease spread and strengthening seed systems 🌱📊 Read the latest insights from our Cambridge-Africa blog: bit.ly/46XN99I

At #ICO2026 in San Martín de los Andes, Argentina 🇦🇷 Looking forward to discussions on Orthoptera research, pest management, and collaboration with colleagues from around the world. ico2026.com.ar

Our paper "Formulating likelihood functions for infectious disease dynamics for neglected tropical diseases" has been accepted in Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics: frontiersin.org/journals/appli…

Presenting our poster on the Plant Growth Index at #ICO2026 with collaborator Dr Allan Spessa from the Australian Plague Locust Commission.

I am pleased to share our new preprint in Earth System Science Data: "Mapping Plant Growth Index (PGI) over Australia from 1990 to 2024", developed in collaboration with colleagues from the Australian Plague Locust Commission. 🔗 essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd…

Now published Frontiers : frontiersin.org/journals/appli…

Sustaining smallholder banana production in Banana Bunchy Top Disease endemic landscapes: integrating clean seed, roguing, and farmer ... biorxiv.org/content/10.648… #biorxiv_plants

Now published at Mathematical Biosciences: "Parameterisation of epidemiological models from small field experiments: a case study of banana bunchy top virus transmission". sciencedirect.com/science/articl…