Cesar Padilla-Castro, council member
PhD candidate, Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University
Project: Standing strong together? The impact of collective disease management on oil palm's bud rot disease
About my research
Bud rot disease is the major threat to Colombian oil palm plantations. My project aims at understanding which factors triggered past epidemics, so future ones can be prevented as much as possible. I look at environmental and agronomic factors influencing the presence of the disease, and also the sociological reasons behind cooperation among farmers to tackle the disease.