Contact

Senegal

Paula Fernandes
CIRAD, UPR Hortsys
Coordinator
E-mail

France

Pierre Silvie
CIRAD, UPR AIDA
Correspondent
E-mail

Design of agro-ecological systems based on pest management and organic waste use

How can we make use of natural regulation processes for the sustainable management of crop pests and diseases (pathogens, pests and weeds)?

Climate change and the expansion of agriculture at the expense of natural areas are threatening ecosystems that play a role in the natural regulation of crop enemies. In a context in which demand for agricultural goods is soaring in line with population growth, the network’s multi-partner structure is helping develop appropriate crop protection strategies, which boost the productivity of farming systems (producing more) and reduce farmers’ reliance on pesticides (producing better).

Partnership

Benin

  • Institut national de recherches agricoles du Bénin (INRAB)
  • University of Abomey-Calavi (FSAUAC)

Burkina Faso

  • University of Ouagadougou 1 Prof Joseph Ki Zerbo (UO1 - ED/ST)

France

  • French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD): UR AIDA, UR HortSys

International

  • International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA, CGIAR)

Ivory Coast

  • Félix Houphouët Boigny University (UFHB-CEA-CCBAD)

Mali

  • Institut d’économie rurale (IER)

Senegal

  • Faculty of Science and Technology, Cheikh Anta Diop University (FST-UCAD)
  • Gaston Berger University, Saint-Louis-du-Sénégal (UGB)
  • Institut sénégalais de recherches agricoles (ISRA)

Togo

  • Institut togolais de recherches agricoles (ITRA)