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Crop Protection

Volume 135, September 2020, 105263
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Buyung Hadi selected as IAPPS FAO Representative

The Executive Committee of the Governing Board of IAPPS is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Buyung Hadi as The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) Representative. Buyung, an IRRI entomologist, has been serving until very recently as IAPPS Region XI: South East Asia Coordinator (IAPPS Newsletter June 2019). He has been leader of the USAID/VA Tech IPM Innovation Lab project, “Development of Ecologically-based Participatory IPM Package for Rice in Cambodia (EPIC)” since 2016 and was

IAPPS helps prepare coconut rhinoceros beetle emergency workers for a post COVID-19 world

The effects of COVID-19 are being felt as far away as the remote Pacific islands where governments have shut down travel and transport to prevent arrival of the virus. Unfortunately, this is not the only problem the island states are facing. Increasing storms and sea level rise, are a consequence of climate change. Invasive pests, like the coconut rhinoceros beetle (CRB) (Oryctes rhinoceros), are highly damaging on vulnerable islands.

In recent years, fortunately, IAPPS has provided a focus for

Biological control and IPM programs in Panama: challenges and projections

Since the last twenty years, biological control of insect-pests has been strengthened through synergy between national and international research groups, which enabled important products to be achieved through government financial resources. Some special considerations, which consider Panama to be a geographical transition zone, which is based on agroclimatic differences found in economically important crop production areas, mainly in rice and vegetable cultivation. The characterization of

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