News release announcing that the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has achieved major success in the biological control of one damaging African food peat, and made progress towards controlling another. IITA's success in controlling the cassava mealybug has benefitted more than 200 million Africans for whom cassava is a staple food. The benefit:cost ratio of the cassava mealybug program has been calculated at 149:1--$149 worth of food saved for every $1 of research or development invested
Progress in pest management on cassava (Manihot esculenta) in Africa has witnessed remarkable achiev...
Though often perceived as an environmentally-risky practice, biological control of invasive species ...
Dr Hans Herren, Director of the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), has ...
News release issued at the CGIAR's annual mid-term meeting held in Canberra, Australia, in May 1989....
Cassava was imported from Latin America some 300 years ago, and colonial governments in Africa used ...
News release announcing that IITA and CIAT have achieved major success in the biological control of ...
The cassava mealybug (CM), Phenacoccus manihoti Matile-Ferrero was unknown to science when it was fi...
According to the authors, "Cassava serves as a staple food for 200 million Africans, second only to ...
IITA, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, was established in 1976 as the first majo...
Cassava is well recognized for its capacity to address food needs of vulnerable communities in unsta...
Biological control is potentially a key element in sustainable agricultural production in the tropic...
Theophilus E. Mlaki describes how CABI's Crop Protection Compendium on CD-ROM has helped farmers in ...
The battle against the cassava green mite (Mononychellus tanajoa) has turned and the pest is in retr...
Originally created to serve Latin America and the Caribbean, the International Center for Tropical A...
The International Institute of Tropical of Agriculture (IITA) established its East and Southern Afri...
Progress in pest management on cassava (Manihot esculenta) in Africa has witnessed remarkable achiev...
Though often perceived as an environmentally-risky practice, biological control of invasive species ...
Dr Hans Herren, Director of the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), has ...
News release issued at the CGIAR's annual mid-term meeting held in Canberra, Australia, in May 1989....
Cassava was imported from Latin America some 300 years ago, and colonial governments in Africa used ...
News release announcing that IITA and CIAT have achieved major success in the biological control of ...
The cassava mealybug (CM), Phenacoccus manihoti Matile-Ferrero was unknown to science when it was fi...
According to the authors, "Cassava serves as a staple food for 200 million Africans, second only to ...
IITA, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, was established in 1976 as the first majo...
Cassava is well recognized for its capacity to address food needs of vulnerable communities in unsta...
Biological control is potentially a key element in sustainable agricultural production in the tropic...
Theophilus E. Mlaki describes how CABI's Crop Protection Compendium on CD-ROM has helped farmers in ...
The battle against the cassava green mite (Mononychellus tanajoa) has turned and the pest is in retr...
Originally created to serve Latin America and the Caribbean, the International Center for Tropical A...
The International Institute of Tropical of Agriculture (IITA) established its East and Southern Afri...
Progress in pest management on cassava (Manihot esculenta) in Africa has witnessed remarkable achiev...
Though often perceived as an environmentally-risky practice, biological control of invasive species ...
Dr Hans Herren, Director of the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), has ...