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COMPLETED PROJECT

Provision of services to support Scaling-up the sustainable management of the Fall Armyworm in Africa, the Near East, and Asia.

Provision of services to support Scaling-up the sustainable management of the Fall Armyworm in Africa, the Near East, and Asia.

Duration: April 2022 - June 2024

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Description

ICRAF has been supporting FAO’s response to the fall armyworm (FAW) crisis since 2017, leading the FAO fall armyworm agroecology technical working group from 2017-2021.
This project supports the next step in the promotion of integrated pest management (IPM) approaches for the control of fall armyworm, critical to the scaling up sustainable integrated pest management for fall armyworm. ICRAF will provide technical support to conduct field trials for the sustainable management of the fall armyworm in Africa and Asia, across eight demonstration countries of the Global Action for the Fall Armyworm Control.

Rhett Daniel Harrison

Principal Investigator

Details

Project locations

Zambia

Project duration

April 2022 - June 2024
(2 years, 2 months)

Thematic areas

  • Zambia

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

  • Life on land
  • Zero hunger

Transformative Partnership Platforms (TPP)

  • Agroecological approaches, building resilience, livelihoods and landscapes

Project team

Rhett Daniel Harrison

Landscape Ecologist

Chipo Chisonga

Project Officer

Funders