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Introducing West Africa’s largest insect collection
May 22, 2020Quick facts IITA’s insect collection is based in Benin It is the most extensive insect collection in West Africa It has…
Read MoreJATROPHA CURCAS INCREASES RURAL HOUSEHOLD REVENUE AND RESILIENCE TO THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
August 19, 2018Climate change (CC) mitigation is one of the key arguments for promoting jatropha. It has been claimed that cultivation increases the…
Read MoreCLIMATE CHANGE, BIODIVERSITY, AND NATURE CONSERVATION; The Drabo forest
August 19, 2018From biological control in agricultural fields over to alternate hosts in the surrounding vegetation, it was only a step for IITA…
Read MoreMAPPING PESTICIDE RESISTANCE GENES AND UPGRADING FOOD SAFETY CAPACITY
August 19, 2018Under the AgroEcoHealth Platform we have facilities for screening insecticide resistance profiles developed by insects following their exposure to agro-chemicals. We…
Read MorePRECISION-IPM FOR COWPEA THROUGH ICT INNOVATIONS
August 19, 2018With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, researchers from Michigan State University and IITA-Benin, in collaboration with the Institut…
Read MorePARASITOIDS AND THEIR FRUIT FLY HOSTS
August 19, 2018Due to the relatively recent invasion of exotic Tephritidae pest species the interests in Tephritidae fruit fly management increased and so…
Read MoreUNDERSTANDING TROPHIC AND GUILD INTERACTIONS IN BIOCONTROL
August 19, 2018The legume pod borer, Maruca vitrata (Lep., Crambidae) remains the single most important insect pest attacking cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) in Africa….
Read MoreIITA’S PREVIOUS SUCCESSES IN LARGE BIOCONTROL AND IPM PROJECTS
August 19, 2018For the first years, IITA’s involvement in plant protection concerned only the development of resistant varieties. Then, since 1979, with the…
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New pest identified in West and Central Africa!
July 11, 2018A second armyworm from the Americas introduced into tropical Africa A new pest—southern armyworm, Spodoptera eridania (Stoll)—has been discovered in West…
Read MoreSouthern armyworm (Spodoptera eridania)
May 25, 2018A new invasive alien pest southern armyworm, Spodoptera eridania (Stoll)—has been discovered in four countries in Africa…
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