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The Integrated Pest Management CRSP is one of nine collaborative research support programs, or CRSPs, set up to leverage the expertise found at American land grant universities in developing countries around the world.

Legislation that allowed for the creation of the CRSPs was passed in 1975 as an amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, or Title XII – Famine Prevention and Freedom from Hunger. USAID then created the CRSPs, harnessing the vast resources of universities to allow aid from the United States to be spread efficiently across a broad scope. Land grant universities, themselves begun with the express purpose of extending the knowledge of the university to a wider audience, are the ideal organization to take on this task on a global scale.

The other CRSPs and their management seats are:

• Sorghum, Millet, and Other Grains CRSP
  University of Nebraska

• Bean/Cowpea CRSP


Michigan State University

• Peanut CRSP
  managed by the University of Georgia

• Global Livestock CRSP
  University of California, Davis

• Aquaculture and Fisheries CRSP
  Oregon State University

• Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources Management (SANREM) CRSP
  Virginia Tech

• Broadening Access and Strengthening Input Systems (BASIS) CRSP
  University of Wisconsin

• Soil Management CRSP
  University of Hawaii