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The IPM CRSP focuses efforts in areas that provide
the most return on investment. Under the Regional Themes Programs, the
IPM CRSP addresses geographically delimited interventions. Although
these programs are limited to specific areas, the CRSP has strategically
selected programs from a range of geographic regions: the Caribbean,
East Africa, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, West Africa, and Eastern
Europe. Click on a link below to learn more about each of these
programs.
IPM in Latin America and the Caribbean: Crops
for Broad-Based Growth and Perennial Production for Fragile Ecosystems
Focuses on solanaceous
plants, cucurbits, diversified highland vegetables, cacao, plantain.
Program Leader: Jeff Alwang
Title, Affiliation: Professor,
Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech
E-mail: alwangj@vt.edu
Phone: (540)
231-6517
Web site:
http://www.aaec.vt.edu/aaec/PeopleFacultyAlwang.html
Regional IPM Program in East Africa: Kenya,
Tanzania and Uganda
Improving productivity of high-value horticultural crops in Kenya,
Tanzania and Uganda.
Program Leader: Mark Erbaugh
Title, Affiliation: Assistant Director,
International Programs in Agriculture, The Ohio State University
E-mail: erbaugh.1@osu.edu
Phone: (614) 292-7252
Web site: Not available
Ecologically-Based
Participatory IPM for Southeast Asia
Focuses on IPM in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam—countries
with large agricultural sectors and ecological hot spots for
biodiversity loss.
Program Leader: Michael Hammig
Title, Affiliation: Professor, Applied Economics & Statistics, Clemson
University
E-mail: mhammig@clemson.edu
Phone: (864) 656-5771
Web site:
http://cherokee.agecon.clemson.edu/mdhammig.htm
Ecologically-Based
Participatory and Collaborative Research and Capacity-Building in IPM in
the Central Asia Region
Working with human resource development, networking and training
programs to strengthen institutional IPM-training capability in this
region.
Program Leader: Karim Maredia
Title, Affiliation: Professor, International Agriculture, Michigan State
University
E-mail: kmaredia@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 353-5262
Web site: Not Available
West African
Consortium of IPM Excellence
Creating a regionally-integrated IPM research program in Mali, Burkina
Faso, The Gambia, Guinea and Senegal.
Program Leader: Don Mullins
Title, Affiliation: Professor of Entomology, Virginia Tech
E-mail:
mullinsd@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-5978
Web site: http://aries.ento.vt.edu/ento/personalPage.jsp?uuid=809737
IPM of Specialty Crops
in Eastern Europe
Working in Albania, Moldova and Ukraine to decrease pesticide use in
target crops, slow development of pesticide resistance, reduce
resurgence of secondary pests, decrease pesticide exposure risk to
humans, and improve marketing position of local agricultural
commodities.
Program Leader: Doug Pfeiffer
Title, Affiliation: Professor of Entomology, Virginia Tech
E-mail: dgpfeiff@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-4183
Web site: http://everest.ento.vt.edu/Fruitfiles/Albania/EasternEuropeIndex.html
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