Bioprotection technologies, or biological tools for the protection of plants for the management of pests, weeds and diseases, are of natural origin or just like those found in nature once they are synthesized, and usually have a coffee impact on the human health and therefore the environment. Although the term biopesticide is usually used, IBMA pleads to use the term bioprotection agents, since the suffix "cidal" often doesn't describe truth mechanisms of those substances, as they are doing not kill directly, but rather protect the plant.
They are of natural origin, produced from renewable resources and support holistic agro-ecosystems-based approaches for growing food with negligible harm to the environment. samples of bioprotection agents are microorganisms, semiochemicals, plant extracts (botanicals) or natural substances. These are already present in nature and belong to species whose bioprotectant activity has been already referenced as efficient and harmless to the environment, human and animal health;