While biopesticides have been around for more than 50 years, the market has experienced a rapid growth over the last decade in terms of sales, research, and user acceptance.

Now more than ever, both innovation in farming and food production and supporting sustainable alternatives are vital to achieving global food security.

Demand is growing for crop protection products, as the world economy and population expands and new pests and diseases spread around the planet. Companies and investors are increasingly investing in environmentally friendly solutions, aware that the cure must be less harmful than the problem.

The first recorded use of pesticides was about 4500 years ago by Sumerians who used sulphur compounds to control insects and mites. Over the past several millennia, humans have continued to invent new ways of controlling unwanted pests in agriculture, to great benefit to society at large…