An ecologically-based participatory and collaborative IPM research and capacity building project in Central Asia

USAID has renewed its sponsorship of the Collaborative Research Support Program for Integrated Pest Management in Central Asia (IPM-CRSP). The project fosters development of a comprehensive IPM initiative, using an ecologically-based and multidisciplinary systems approach. Michigan State University, the University of California-Davis and The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) are the host institutions collaborating with colleagues from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan.

Our current project spans the years 2010-2014 and focuses on IPM in key Central Asian food crops, specifically wheat, tomatoes and potatoes. These three crops were identified through consultations and recommendations of various stakeholders at a regional IPM CRSP forum conducted in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan in June 2009. Read the press release announcing the new award.

Read our success story on the Central Asia IPM CRSP outreach and education effort.

NEW: 2011 Annual report (pdf)
NEW: Abdujabbor Shirinov, the nation of Tajikistan’s ambassador to the United States, visit Michigan State University and the Project team. Read press release.
NEW: View photos from the partners meeting and diagnostic workshop in Tajikistan, June 2011.

Visit the program components section to learn more about our work with potatoes, tomatoes and wheat in Central Asia. Below, right, our three student partners have arrived on the MSU campus: Saltanat Mambetova (Kyrgyzstan), Bahodir Eshchanov (Uzbekistan), and Shahlo Safarzoda (Tajikistan).

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Project funding agency: USAID IPM-CRSP, managed by Virginia Tech University.
Related programs: MSU Institute of International Agriculture and World Technology Access Program.

View or print a flyer about Phase 2 of the Central Asia IPM project
View or print a flyer about Phase 1 of the Central Asia IPM project. (Download Adobe Acrobat Reader.)