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IPM Goals and Objectives

Goals

The overall purpose of the IPM CRSP is to develop and implement a replicable approach to IPM that will help reduce the following:

agricultural losses due to pests

damage to natural ecosystems including loss of biodiversity

pollution and contamination of food and water supplies

By combining strong regional IPM programs with work on critical global cross-cutting themes, the goals of the IPM CRSP are to:

measurably reduce crop and animal losses due to pests

increase farmer income

reduce pesticide use

reduce residues on export crops

improve IPM research and education program capabilities

improve ability to monitor pests

increase the ability of women in IPM decision-making and program design

Women in Bangladesh perform eggplant grafting, allowing farmers to grow eggplant that is both highly productive and yet resistant to bacterial wilt. Eggplant is a staple of the Bangledeshi diet.

By reaching these goals, the IPM CRSP program directly contributes to the strategic objectives of USAID and its partners to advance land resource management practices that provide long-term social, economic, and environmental benefits.

Objectives

IPM CRSP program objectives relate to research, communication and education for behavioral change, institutional capacity building, policy and institutional reform, and the development of sustainable, resource-based local enterprises. Specifically, the IPM CRSP pursues the following objectives:

advancing IPM science and developing IPM technologies, information and systems for sound land resource management

improving IPM communication and education, and the ability of beneficial practitioners to manage knowledge, resulting in the widespread adaptation, adoption, and impact of ecologically-based IPM technologies, practices, and systems

providing information and capacity building to reform and strengthen policies and local and national institutions that influence pest management

developing and integrating sustainable resource-based, local enterprises into national regional and global markets