Work programme 5: Foster broader awareness of the impact and benefits of IPM leading to the wider adoption of more sustainable crop protection strategies.

Background

Key activities of the SP-IPM, complementing and underpinning its role in research coordination, are to encourage information exchange among stakeholder groups and to disseminate information—so as to increase public and donor awareness of the benefits of IPM and to raise the profile of IPM within communities. The SP-IPM develops various information resources and disseminates them through diverse channels.

Principal activities

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  • Promote IPM publications and advocacy through various channels
  • Develop and disseminate indicators and guidelines to fully define and quantify losses and the expected benefits on investment in IPM in targeted cropping systems
  • Encourage information exchange among stakeholder groups to increase awareness of IPM benefits and raise IPM profile within public, donor and farming communities
  • Encourage greater researcher-private sector-NGO partnership in the development and promotion of IPM
  • Develop methodology for health and environmental, socio-economic (financial incentives/disincentives) impact of use of synthetic pesticides and as well as alternatives to these pesticides

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Achievements
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  • Three SP-IPM partner research centers retained membership on Governing Board of IAPPS
  • The SP-IPM was member of the international organising committee of the 15th International Plant Protection Congress (IPPC) May 2004, Beijing, China
  • The SP-IPM symposium at 15th IPPC May 2004, Beijing, China featured 10 papers on the theme “Increasing the quality and usefulness of IPM research”
  • IPM research brief launched to discuss challenges posed by target pests to productivity and sustainability of production systems and present ecologically sound IPM options against the pests
  • TWGs on FPR/FPL initiated activities to integrate these skills into the tropical whitefly project
  • A sub-regional workshop on the control of broomrape and viral diseases in food legumes featuring 16 papers was hosted by the SP-IPM and Agricultural Research Center, Egypt in 2003 at El-Fayoum in collaboration with ICARDA, RNE-FAO, Egypt-German IPM project, Nile Valley Red Sea project (NVRSP)
  • Other SP-IPM information resources include IPM projects database; book chapter contributions, scientific publications, FPR/FPL information resources on CD vol 1 , FPR/FPL information resources on CD vol 2; parasitic weed IPM publicity videos
  • Scientific information database on CD for on-line literature search on leaf mining fly, Liriomyza spp, and its natural enemies
Limited copies of selected materials are available on demand, write to ipm-center@cgiar.org