Through the STOSAR Project, the National Plant Protection Organization (NPPO) of Zambia has benefitted from various capacity-building initiatives such as Pest Risk Analysis (PRA) that equipped the country with Pest Lists to conduct market access negotiations for horticultural commodities that included Blueberries, Soya bean and Stevia (a natural sweetener and sugar substitute derived from the leaves of the plant species Stevia rebaudiana).
Members of staff from Zambia’s Plant Quarantine and Phytosanitary Services [PQPS], which is one of the departments under the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the NPPO in Zambia received Pest Risk Analysis training facilitated by CABI in July 2021 and August 2022.