Global Plant Protection News

Saturday, August 6
5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Organizers: R. Muniappan, IPM CRSP,VA Tech, USA; Irmgard Hoeschle- Zeledon, Coordinator, SP-IPM, IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria; E. A. “Short” Heinrichs, IAPPS Secretary General, University of Nebraska, USA

Sponsors: IAPPS, IPM CRSP and SP-IPM

This workshop will have presentations by leading scientists and administrators from each of the following agencies/institutes: U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), International Agricultural Research Centers (IARCs), Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), CropLife International, and others. They will review IPM activities of different international programs and recommend IPM technologies that could strengthen the US Government’s global “Feed the Future Initiative” for increasing food production, improving nutrition and reducing poverty.

 Program:

Feed the Future Initiative – Role of IPM, Rob Bertram, USAID

 Feed the Future Initiative -Role of USDA, Anita Regmi, Senior Advisor, International Office of the USDA Chief Scientist, U.S.A.

 Role of IPM in Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation activities, Prem Warrior, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, U.S.A.  

 Need for plant protection research and technology transfer in tropical crops –  A German development cooperation agency viewpoint, Marlene Diekmann, Research Advisor, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany

Need for plant protection research and technology transfer in tropical crops from the viewpoint of a CG Center DG, Bob Ziegler, DG, IRRI, The Philippines

 Need for IPM strategies and technology transfer activities in tropical vegetable crops from the viewpoint of the IPM CRSP, S.K. De Datta, Associate Vice President for International Affairs and Director, Office of International Research, Education and Development, Virginia Tech, U.S.A. 

Impact of IPM programs in tropical agriculture, George Norton, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech, U.S.A. 

What has been done and what needs to be done to solve current and future pest constraints to food production

Richard Sikora, Chair, CGIAR SP-IPM Steering Committee, University of Bonn, Germany

Gebisa Ejeta, World Food Prize winner, Purdue University, U.S.A.,

Geoff Norton, President, IAPPS, University of Queensland, Australia

Keith Jones, Director, Stewardship and Sustainable Agriculture, CropLife International, Singapore

Sanath Reddy, Senior Economic Growth Advisor, USAID Mission, Indonesia

Daniel Coyne, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Tanzania

Recommendations and action plan