Systemwide Program on IPM
The Systemwide Program on IPM (SP-IPM) spearheads forward-looking research and outreach programs on crop pest management by pulling together the individual strengths and expertise of several CGIAR Centers and their partners.
The goal of the reorganized SP-IPM is to enhance the achievements of the CGIAR System Priorities and the related Millennium Development Goals through innovative IPM research.
Its mission is to make a significant contribution to the development of more productive and healthy agro-ecosystems, especially for countries in the South, through technological innovation and adaptation for improved pest and disease management.
Future collaborative research undertaken by SP-IPM members will take place in three areas:
- Climate Change
- Food and Feed Safety
- Agro-ecosystem Resilience
Climate change
SP-IPM research plans to adapt IPM to the challenges of climate change and variability and to provide solutions that assist farmers in the developing world to cope with such outbreaks.
Food and Feed Safety
SP-IPM carries out research to reduce contaminants that include pesticides and mycotoxins in foods, feeds and the environment to ensure a supply of safe food and animal feed, and increase the marketability of agricultural products.
Agroecosystem Resilience
Research undertaken by SP-IPM will broaden the understanding of functional agrobiodiversity and develop habitat management options for the control of important soil and plant pests in key agricultural production systems.
These three research areas will be further strengthened by multidisciplinary cooperation with other scientific disciplines and by expanding knowledge on IPM technologies through capacity building at the NARS in cooperating countries.
For further information, please contact the SP-IPM Secretariat hosted by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Ibadan, Nigeria.
