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Features, Issue 7 »
[13 Nov 2011 | No Comment | 320 views]
Biocontrol offers benefits to Africa

Biological control programs implemented by IITA and partners on cassava green mite have brought benefits worth more than $1.7 billion to Nigeria, Bénin, and Ghana in the last 18 years.

Issue 7, News »
[13 Nov 2011 | No Comment | 378 views]

IITA and partners recently launched a project that will provide farmers in Nigeria and Kenya with a natural, safe, and cost-effective solution to prevent the contamination of maize and groundnut by a cancer-causing poison, aflatoxin.

Issue 5, News »
[28 Sep 2010 | No Comment | 1,972 views]

Biological control of aflatoxins using aflasafe™ is providing hope for African farmers battling with crop contamination and opening doors for the private sector looking to invest on a winning formula in the agricultural sector.

Issue 4, Looking In »
[31 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 1,013 views]
Ken Neethling: Biocontrol champion

Ken Neethling, CEO of Biocontrol Products (BCP), the South African company that produces Green Muscle®, talks about this biocontrol solution to locusts and the challenges that BCP faces in producing it.

Featured, Issue 3 »
[15 Oct 2009 | No Comment | 1,783 views]
The power of biocontrol

Three decades of R4D at IITA have shown the effectiveness and sustainability of biological control combined with other approaches for managing insect pests. These biocontrol practices and technologies provide subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa with solutions that are sometimes their only safety net.

Coverpage, Issue 3 »
[15 Oct 2009 | No Comment | 1,450 views]
Edition 3, September 2009

Three decades of research and development at IITA have shown the continuing effectiveness and sustainability of biological control in combination with other approaches for managing insect pests.

Issue 3, Tool Box »
[14 Oct 2009 | No Comment | 4,317 views]
The witch menace

Witchweed or Striga has cast a “spell” on millions of hectares of cereal crops in sub-Saharan Africa. Discover how IITA and partners concocted a “potion” to ward off its effects on cereals using a natural enemy—a fungus!

Issue 3, Looking In »
[14 Oct 2009 | No Comment | 1,511 views]
O.A. Adenola: More awareness needed on the dangers of aflatoxins

The president of one of the strongest crop networks in Nigeria, Pastor O.A. Adenola, talks about the need for stakeholders to join forces against aflatoxin spread and other issues.

Issue 3, Looking In »
[14 Oct 2009 | 6 Comments | 2,615 views]
Sunday Ekesi: Partnership is about respect

Sunday Ekesi is a research entomologist from Nigeria working at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe). He is currently leading a continent-wide initiative on the African fruit flies that threaten the production and export of fruits and vegetables.

Issue 3, Who's Who »
[14 Oct 2009 | No Comment | 1,917 views]
Peter Neuenschwander: How Africa can control invasive pests

The “father of biocontrol”, Peter Neuenschwander, joined IITA’s biocontrol project against the cassava mealybug in 1983, and retired in 2003. In this interview, he bares his mind on the contribution of biocontrol and strategies on how Africa can check invasive pests.