West Africa Regional IPM Network
Consortium Regional Ouest Africain
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Pest Management
  Insects

Quality Assurance
  Pesticide Safety
  Residue Analysis

Capacity Building
  Student Training






 
The West Africa Regional IPM Network is a collaboration of U.S. and host country partners in research and outreach activities designed to improve the quality of the environments and the livelihoods of rural agricultural households in the five participating countries. The project is a continuation of research activities carried out over the previous 11 years in the West Africa Integrated Pest Management Collaborative Research Support Program (IPM CRSP). Mali remains the hub of the program, but activities have expanded to Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Guinea, and Senegal resulting in a new regionally-integrated program that reflects the expectation by USAID and the IPM CRSP Management Entity that the new programs truly have regional impact.

The goals of the West Africa Regional IPM Network are to:

  1. Develop and promote the use of Integrated Pest Management systems for insects, weeds, and diseases in agricultural crop production.
  2. Develop a quality assurance program to promote pesticide safety education and the improvement of pesticide residue analytical capabilities in West Africa.
  3. Facilitate capacity building through technology transfer and education at all levels, including university-level training.

Participating countries in the West Africa Regional Project
News and Announcements

04-13-2007: West African Regional Pesticide Safety Educators' Workshop

Atelier Régional pour des Formateurs en Sécurité d’Utilisation des Pesticides en Afrique Occidentale

May 28-June 1, 2007
Du 28 mai au 1er juin 2007
Bamako, Mali

For information: English (PDF); Francais (PDF)

Collaborators

United States
Fort Valley State University
Purdue University
University of California, Davis
Virginia Tech

Senegal
L'Agence Nationale de Conseil Agricole et Rural (ANCAR)
Ceres Locustox
Direction de la Protection des Vegetaux (DPV)
Insitut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles (ISRA)

Burkina Faso
Institut de l'environnement et des recherches agricoles (INERA)

Guinea
Institute de Recherche Agricole Guinea

Gambia
National Agricultural Research Institute(NARI)

Mali
Institut d' Economie Ruale du Mali(IER)
Environmnetal Toxicology and Quality Control Laboratory(ETQCL)
Operation Haute Vallee du Niger(OHVN)

West Africa Regional
Institut du Sahel(INSAH)
Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center(AVRDC)
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture(IITA)

NSF Center for IPM
This project is supported by the United States Agency for International Development Cooperative Agreement No. EPP-A-00-04-00016-00
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