The document discusses country preparedness for potential yellow rust epidemics in developing countries. It outlines several key actions for preparedness plans, including having resistant wheat varieties available that are accepted by farmers, sufficient and affordable fungicides, reliable disease surveillance, and strong breeding, seed, and extension systems to continuously provide new resistant varieties. However, many developing countries face challenges like few breeders, rigid variety registration systems, informal seed systems, old wheat varieties still grown, lack of fungicide options, and limited disease monitoring capacities. Strengthening these areas would help improve country level preparedness for yellow rust.