What’s New?

• Happy World Environment Day!

• NEW ARTICLE: New Guide Details Pest-Management Practices for Longan

• New research on sustainable agriculture shows why farmers adopt or dismiss nontoxic farming methods.

• Success Story: Agribusiness Blooms out of IPM Innovation Lab Partnership

• The latest from Agrilinks! Enhancing the Private Sector: Two Teams Collaborate for a Common Goal

• IPM IL Spring 2019 newsletter is available!

• NEW VIDEO: View a how-to video for using natural enemies against the devastating millet head miner. 

• Also find the IPM Innovation Lab on Facebook and Twitter @IPM_IL.

How is the IPM Innovation Lab changing the world?

IPM for Fall Armyworm Workshop Held in Ethiopia

icipe, one of the IPM Innovation Lab’s collaborators, released a brief report covering a May workshop on integrated pest management of the fall armyworm. 

VIDEO: IPM Innovation Lab is combating the devastating fall armyworm in Africa

Gender Research in IPM: Women’s Empowerment as a Key to Unlocking Food Security 

The IPM Innovation Lab is working to ensure men and women benefit from agricultural innovation equally, as women continue to face constraints that limit profits, contributions, and productivity. 

Virginia Tech taps text message services to assist farmers in developing countries

The IPM Innovation Lab implements mobile technology to improve pest and disease information delivery in the developing world. 

Dragon Fruit Sleeving: Farmers Find Relief with Simple Technologies: 

The IPM Innovation Lab helps farmers in Vietnam use plastic sleeves to protect their dragon fruit from pests and disease.