1. Molecular diagnostics for evidence based rational use of pesticides, in the european green deal era 2. Enabling sustainable agriculture through understanding and enhancement of microbiomes 3. Applying chemical ecology for environmentally friendly strategies to control insect pests  4. Impact and control of transboundary/invasive banana wilt pathogen, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense 5. Microbial pesticides: Discovery, piloting and scaling up in Africa 6. Sustainable weed management 7. Coordinated approach for transboundary plant pest and disease management 8. Food security in Africa needs policy support for sustainable plant health management 9. Strategies for developing and implementing digital identification tools 10. Cross-kingdom RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens