1. Molecular diagnostics for rational use of pesticides and resistance management of agricultural pests 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. Coordinated approach for transboundary plant pest and disease management 7. Food security in Africa needs policy support for sustainable plant health management 8. Strategies for developing and implementing digital identification tools 9. Cross-kingdom RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens 10. The effect of climate change on plant protection 11. Weed Management Challenges and Opportunities to Close Yield and Profitability Gaps in Smallholder Rice Production in Asia