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Integrated Pest Management Collaborative Research Support Program Annual Report Management Entity for IPM CRSP: Office of International Research, Education, & Development (OIRED) Virginia Tech, 526 Prices Fork Road, Blacksburg, VA 24061, www.oired.vt.edu/ipmcrsp/ Cover Photo: S.K. De Datta IPM CRSP, OIRED, Virginia Tech, 2008 Integrated Pest Management Collaborative Research Support Program FY 2008 Annual Report October 1, 2007 – September 30, 2008 Report Coordinators R. Muni Muniappan Larry Vaughan Annie Steed USAID Cooperative Agreement No: EPP-A-00-04-00016-00 IPM CRSP Management Entity S.K. De Datta, administrative PI, OIRED director, associate vice president for international Affairs R. Muniappan, program director Larry Vaughan, associate program director Maria Elisa Christie, Women in Development program director Annie Steed, research associate Miriam Rich, communications coordinator Debbie Francis, program coordination assistant IPM CRSP Program Advisory Board (PAB) John Dooley, Virginia Tech Alma Hobbs, Virginia State University Bobby Moser, The Ohio State University Larry Olsen, Michigan State University (Chair) Thomas Schw edler, Clemson University Johnny Wynne, North Carolina State University Robert Hedlund, USA ID S. K. De Datta, Virginia Tech R. Muniapan, Virginia Tech Larry Vaughan, Virginia Tech IPM CRSP Technical Committee Jeffrey Alwang, Virginia Tech Kitty Cardw ell, USDA, CSREES Mark Erbaugh, The Ohio State University Michael Hammig, Clemson University Samuel Kyamanyw a, Makerere University, Uganda Karim Maredia, Michigan State University Wondi Mersie, Virginia State University Sally Miller, The Ohio State University Donald Mullins, Virginia Tech George Norton, Virginia Tech (Chair) Douglas Pfeiffer, Virginia Tech Edw in Rajotte, Pennsylvania State University Naidu Rayapati, Washington State University Sue Tolin, Virginia Tech Yulu Xia, North Carolina State University Robert Hedlund, USA ID S.K. De Datta, Virginia Tech R. Muniappan, Virginia Tech Larry Vaughan, Virginia Tech Maria Elisa Christie, Virginia Tech Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................................................6 PHASE III LONG-TERM ............................................................................................................................ 13 IPM in Latin A merica and the Caribbean: Crops for Broad-based Grow th and Perennial Production for Fragile Ecosystems ................................................................................................................................ 14 Regional IPM Program for East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda ............................................... 24 West African Regional Consortium of IPM Excellence.......................................................................... 39 Regional Integrated Pest Management Research and Education for South Asia ................................ 47 Ecologically-Based Participatory IPM for Southeast Asia ..................................................................... 63 Ecologically-Based Participatory and Collaborative Research and Capacity Building in IPM in the Central Asia Region ............................................................................................................................... 78 Integrated Pest Management of Specialty Crops in Eastern Europe.................................................... 83 Management of the Weed Parthenium (Parthenium hysterophorus L.) in Eastern and Southern Africa using Integrated Cultural and Biological Measures ............................................................................... 95 International Plant Diagnostic Netw ork (IPDN).................................................................................... 105 Integrated Management of Thrips-borne Tospoviruses in Vegetable Cropping Systems .................. 111 Collaborative Assessment and Management of Insect Trans mitted Viruses...................................... 117 Applications of Information Technology and Databases in IPM in Developing Countries and Development of a Global IPM Technology Database ......................................................................... 131 IPM Impact Assessment for the IPM CRSP ........................................................................................ 134 Gender Equity....................................................................................................................................... 137 IPM CRSP Management Entity Activities ............................................................................................ 139 TRAINING AND INSTITUTIONAL CA PACITY DEVELOPMENT........................................................... 141 Long-Term Degree Training FY2008 ................................................................................................... 141 Short-Term Training FY2008 ............................................................................................................... 150 IPM CRSP Non-Degree Training FY2008 ........................................................................................... 153 IPM CRSP Publications, Presentations, and other products FY2008................................................. 167 APPENDICES .......................................................................................................................................... 185 Appendix A—List of Acronyms ............................................................................................................ 185 Appendix B—Collaborating Institutions ............................................................................................... 189 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Integrated Pest Management Collaborative developed a cost-effective extension package for Research Support Program (IPM CRSP) is an mixed plantain production. The LAC site has also initiative of USAID. It is a collaborative undergone important south-south information and partnershipbetween the United States .and host technology transfers and a process of impact country institutions with an emphasis on research, evaluation has been established. education, training, and information exchange. The concept of IPM has been evolving for the past five East Africa decades and Virginia Tech has been implementing Regional IPM Program for East Africa: Kenya, the IPM CRSP project for the past 15 years with Tanzania, and Uganda continuous support from USAID. It has brought The two main complementary objectives of this together investigators from 22 U.S. universities and program are to develop a regional model of nine international agricultural research institutes, collaborative IPM research, training, and knowledge and scientists from over 30 countries comprising dissemination that focuses on improving the seven regions and five continents for the productivity of higher-value marketed horticultural participatory IPM. There are seven regional crops. Regional collaboration is fostered through the programs and six global cross-cutting theme Regional Technical Committee (RTC) which is programs (Table 1). composed of one person from each country, the regional coordinator, the site chairperson, and USA- based technical experts as available. Regional Programs: The RTC met twice over the past year and research Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) updates from the three countries were presented and Crops for Broad-based Growth and Perennial critiqued, activity progress reports were presented Production for Fragile Ecosystems by country, and management issues discussed. The LAC program is continuing to work Additional activities that fostered regional successfully in several sites in Ecuador and collaboration over the past year included updating Honduras. Major research results include the regional program website portal; completion and identification of bio-based controls for pathogens write-up of socioeconomic baseline studies; and improved cultivation practices in mixed cocoa- completion of biological monitoring activities on plantain systems in Coastal Ecuador; completion o f tomatoes in all three countries and coffee in both an IPM package for control of several prominent Uganda and Tanzania; administration of disease Andean fruit diseases; and testing and refining of a incidence surveys on passion fruit in Kenya and number of controls for pests and diseases in Tanzania; continuation of on-farm/station trials in horticultural crops in Honduras. In Ecuador, a solid all three countries; completion of training programs package exists for control of fusarium in production for regional graduate students and graduate students of naranjilla. Control of this disease will in the U.S.; application of the regional modular substantially increase incomes and reduce pressure IPM program for farmer/extension agent training at on fragile erosive lands. In Honduras, hot water KARI/Thika; and implementation of a pesticide treatment of strawberry mites was further examined safety and usage program with KARI at the Kenyan and found to be effective; soil solarization was research site inMwea. The regional program places confirmed to be effective for tomato and pepper great emphasis on capacity building and training beds and production of lettuce and beets; and activities in the region. Seven presentations and nine promising alternatives to the control of purple posters were presented at various international nutsedge were investigated. In both countries, scientific meetings, and six regional