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Read our blog about travel to and meeting in Syria and Kyrgyzstan.

An ecologically-based participatory and collaborative IPM research and capacity building project in Central Asia

USAID has renewed its sponsorship of the Collaborative Research Support Program for Integrated Pest Management in Central Asia (IPM-CRSP). The project fosters development of a comprehensive IPM initiative, using an ecologically-based and multidisciplinary systems approach. Michigan State University, the University of California-Davis and The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) are the host institutions collaborating with colleagues from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan.

Phase 2 (2010-2014). The renewal funds a 5-year effort that will focus on IPM in key food crops – wheat, tomatoes and potatoes – in Central Asia.

Phase 1 (2005-2009). The Project had three components based on a needs assessment from the regional IPM Stakeholders Forum in Uzbekistan in May 2005.

Component 1) Landscape ecology to enhance biodiversity and biological pest management. Component 2) Enhance efficiency, products line and crop usage of Central Asian biolaboratories. Component 3) Develop and implement IPM extension and outreach and university education programs.
Using native plants to attract beneficial insects. Biolab workers rear beneficial insects. Students in Kyrgyzstan learn about wheat pest problems.

Project funding agency: USAID IPM-CRSP, managed by Virginia Tech University.
Related programs: MSU Institute of International Agriculture and World Technology Access Program.

View or print a flyer about Phase 1 of the Central Asia IPM project. (Download Adobe Acrobat Reader.)
News: Apply for PhD Fellowships to work with our project
We are looking for candidates to work with our project and earn doctoral degrees. Must be citizens of countries indicated. Apply for wheat IPM in Tajikistan. Apply for tomato IPM in Uzbekistan. Apply for potato IPM in Kyrgyzstan.

Central Asia IPM project shares 2008 King Baudouin Award.
ICARDA, other CGIAR Centers and Michigan State University Consortium for Central Asia and Caucasus have been awarded the 2008 King Baudouin Science Award for Outstanding Partnership. Read press release.

 
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