IPM Global Theme
Programs:
Impact Assessment
A global theme program on impact assessment
provides leadership and coordination to each of the
regional IPM programs mentioned above, and helps the
CRSP assess priorities world-wide in IPM. It is
establishing a common methodology for evaluating
economic (including poverty), social,
environmental/health, and gender impacts of IPM
programs. Spatially-referenced analytical tools are used
to identify and characterize areas susceptible to
specific pest problems and linked to crop loss data.
This information is combined with other economic,
technical, and technology adoption (realized and
projected) data to: a) project where IPM programs are
likely to have the greatest impacts locally, regionally,
and globally; and b) to assess impacts of specific IPM
CRSP activities that have been completed in each region.
The IPM
CRSP program that addresses this issue is:
IPM
Impact Assessment for the IPM CRSP
PI: George Norton, Virginia Tech
E-mail address:
Web:
http://www.aaec.vt.edu/aaec/PeopleFacultyNorton.htm
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