What’s New?

• Join the IPM Innovation Lab for a webinar on Rugose Spiraling Whitefly Management on January 24, 2022 at 9:30am Bangladesh time. 

• Check out the IPM Innovation Lab’s latest publication: IPM Packages for Tropical Crops

• The IPM Innovation Lab presents its biocontrol approach to managing the destructive fall armyworm. Read about it here.

• The IPM Innovation Lab will lead symposia at the XXVI International Congress of Entomology in Helsinki in July 2021.

• The IPM Innovation Lab hosted a webinar on biocontrol of Parthenium, a destructive invasive weed in Asia and Africa, on March 30, 2021 from 7am-9am EST. Find the recording and associated documents here. 

• Read the IPM Innovation Lab’s solidarity statement.

• NEWEST VIDEO: Seeds of Innovation: Integrated Pest Management for Rice in Cambodia.

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

How is the IPM Innovation Lab changing the world?

Two is better than one: Researching the gendered impacts of agricultural technology through storytelling

The combination of two research methods highlights women’s experiences of the challenges and benefits of Push-Pull in Kenya. 

$3 million USAID award will address crop threats in Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, the IPM Innovation Lab will develop IPM packages for crops, manage fall armyworm, and more. 

Kenyan Farmers Find Hope in Fighting Fall Armyworm

With the release of fall armyworm natural enemies, farmers are seeing increased yields and improved working conditions. 

Virginia Tech Research Explores Climate Change and the Future of Food in Nepal

The IPM Innovation Lab is measuring the impacts of climate change on crops in Nepal, and how it will affect the country’s vulnerable communities. 

The Gendered Impacts of Integrated Pest Management in Ethiopia and Beyond

Implementation of the Push-Pull Technology in Ethiopia is not only increasing yields, but improving livelihoods for women involved in livestock management. 

A Guide to Biological Control of the Fall Armyworm in Africa Using Egg Parasitoids 

The IPM Innovation Lab has trained dozens of researchers on methods of mass-production and release of natural enemies to be used against the fall armyworm.