Can they be contained once and for all? This was a question reported by all the presenters asked by farmers from different parts of the globe . DPG Session: Crop biotic stresses. Pests and diseases and their control or their containment in the agricultural systems has been on discussion since time immemorial, with farmers trying all means that are economically viable with regard to their crop in question. Recent concerns also has been on the human health and the environment, bringing the farmers to a dilemma when it comes to creating an equilibrium with regards to high yields versus human health and the environment. Researchers have not been left out in this journey.They have come up with various biological as well as cultural control ideas, breeding of resistant varieties, improvement of farming techniques together with agronomy among others, with the main focus of reducing the use of synthetic chemicals to the minimal. Poster presentation session; Measuring Resistance in Potato to Phytophthora infestans with Field, Laboratory and Greenhouse Assays However, these research studies have not gone without facing numerous challenges, ranging from poor adoption by the farmers to diverse environmental conditions which has not allowed the replications of some of the laboratory results in the field. With this year's theme on the resilience of agricultural systems against crises, the resilience of plants and soils is of main concern when it comes to the control of pests and diseases. Integrated management has been proposed as it has been found that no method researched can solve these problems alone without affecting human and the environment as well as the crops in terms of output.