Topics Food Security : CRSPs

West African Regional Consortium of IPM Excellence

he West Africa project focused on research planning and organizing the US-based and host country scientists for development of three vegetable IPM packages in three West […]

Start Date: 2004
End Date: 2009
Project Code: Not Available
Lead University: Virginia Tech

Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Topic: Food Security

CRSP: Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Database: Project

Regional Integrated Pest Management Research and Education for South Asia

This project built on previous investment by expanding efforts in Bangladesh and India, extending and replicating the participatory IPM approach in Nepal, strengthening the network of […]

Start Date: 2004
End Date: 2009
Project Code: Not Available
Lead University: Not Available

Region: Asia
Topic: Capacity Building, Food Security

CRSP: Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Database: Project

Integrated Pest Management of Specialty Crops in Eastern Europe

Through this project researchers developed integrating fungicide control programs to maximize economic return on tomato production in greenhouses.

Start Date: 2004
End Date: 2009
Project Code: Not Available
Lead University: Virginia Tech

Region: Europe and Eurasia
Topic: Food Security

CRSP: Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Database: Project

Management of the Weed Parthenium (Parthenium hysterophorus L.) in Eastern and Southern Africa Using Integrated Cultural and Biological Measures

The IPM CRSP parthenium project sought alternative control strategies against parthenium weed, including testing the leaf-feeding beetle, Zygogramma bicolorata (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) as a biological control agent […]

Start Date: 2004
End Date: 2009
Project Code: Not Available
Lead University: Virginia Tech

Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Topic: Food Security

CRSP: Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Database: Project

Integrated management of thrips-borne tospoviruses in vegetable cropping systems

This project focused on documenting viruses in vegetable cropping systems in India.

Start Date: 2004
End Date: 2009
Project Code: Not Available
Lead University: Washington State University

Region: Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean
Topic: Food Security

CRSP: Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Database: Project

Collaborative Assessment and Management of Insect- Transmitted Viruses

This project involved an inventory of viruses of vegetable crops in host countries; an assessment and improvement of diagnostic capabilities in host countries; and application of […]