Central Asia Regional
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Project
Ecologically-based Participatory and Collaborative Research and Capacity Building in IPM in Central Asia Region
USAID is sponsoring a Collaborative Research Support Program for Integrated Pest Management in Central Asia (IPM-CRSP). The project is designed to foster development of a comprehensive IPM initiative, using an ecologically-based and multidisciplinary systems approach. Michigan State University, the University of California-Davis and The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) serve as the host institutions for implementing this collaborative and participatory research-education program, designed to facilitate capacity building in IPM in Central Asia.
Project Description:
The Project consists of three components: landscape ecology, biological control and education-outreach. The specific activities to be implemented are based on the needs assessment and priorities identified at the regional IPM Stakeholders Forum organized in Uzbekistan in May 2005.
Component 1: Landscape ecology to enhance biodiversity and biological pest management.
This component is designed to investigate the use of native plants for conserving natural enemy communities and enhancing biological control of field crop pests in Central Asia and to investigate and implement the most promising landscape management techniques in partnership with governmental agencies, universities, NGOs and farmers in the region.
Component 2: Enhance efficiency, products line and crop usage of Central Asian biolaboratories.
The overall goal of this component is to work with Central Asian researchers, educators and farmers to identify, produce, and introduce into vegetable production systems candidate entomophages for management of spider mites and insect pests which are not currently targets of those produced by Biolaboratories.
Component 3: Develop and implement IPM extension/outreach and university education programs.
This project component aims at enhancing IPM educational and outreach programs in the region through training of trainers (TOT), farmer field schools and the development of IPM educational resources/materials to integrate new information, teaching tools and methodologies into existing IPM outreach and educational programs.
Funding Agency:
USAID IPM-CRSP, managed by Virginia Tech University.
Cooperators:
Landscape Ecology Research Team Members:
Dr. Douglas Landis, Michigan State University
Dr. Mustapha El-Bouhssini, ICARDA
Dr. Nurali Saidov, Research Fellow
Biological Control Research Team Members:
Dr. Frank Zalom, University of California, Davis
Dr. Barno Tashpulatova, Research Fellow
Education-Outreach Team Members:
Dr. George Bird, Michigan State University
Dr. Walter Pett, Michigan State University
Dr. Murat Aitmatov, Education Fellow
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For more information, please contact:
Dr. Karim Maredia, Director of Central Asia Regional IPM Program
Michigan State University
kmaredia@msu.edu
Dr. Raj Paroda, Director, ICARDA/PFU, Central Asia and Caucuses
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
r.paroda@cgiar.org
Dr. Dieudonné Baributsa, Program Assistant
Michigan State University
baributs@msu.edu
