Scaling-up and dissemination of climate resilient push-pull pest and weed control technology [within the Integrated Biological Control Applied Research Programme (IBCARP)]
`Push-Pull' technology has been developed to address stemborers, striga weed and soil fertility constraints faced by smallholder cereal-livestock farmers. The ‘Push-Pull’ component of IBCARP Programme builds upon icipe’s novel climate-resilient push-pull technology to adapt the technology to key agro-climatic conditions and farmer practices in eastern Africa, and address key limitations to its scaling up and sustainability. The adapted push-pull technology is being scaled up through target-specific dissemination and impact pathways, partnerships, direct private-sector involvement.
Donor:
- European Union
Collaborators:
- Project partners: Rothamsted Research (United Kingdom), Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD), Heifer Project International – Kenya (HPI-K), and Heifer Project International – Tanzania (HPI-T).
- Other collaborators: Ethiopia Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO), and Lake Zone Agricultural Research and Development Institute (LZARDI).
More information on this project can be found at: http://www.icipe.org/research/plant-health/push-pull-ipm-technology/projects/scaling-and-dissemination-climate-resilient and http://push-pull.net/