Pest management

Horticulture Innovation Lab research has addressed pest management for fruit and vegetable crops, including technologies such as pest-exclusion nets and nethouses that help farmers physically protect their plants from insect pests. Trainings have also examined ways horticulture farmers can adopt and use integrated pest management tools.

fact sheet: Facilitated solarization reduces weeds and pests

Facilitated solarization reduces weeds, pests in a week

Fact sheet, Program materials

technology fact sheet: Pest-exclusion nets protect crops

Pest-exclusion nets protect crops to boost yield

Fact sheet, Program materials

Brent Sipes

Plant pathologist
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa

Brent Sipes is a professor at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and a plant pathologist working primarily in the management of soil-borne diseases, especially nematodes.

sipes@hawaii.edu

Las mallas anti-insectos protegen los cultivos para aumentar el rendimiento

Fact sheet, Program materials

fact sheet- Mosquito net co partners with researchers against ag pests

Success story: Mosquito net co partners with researchers against ag pests

Fact sheet, Program materials

Sisters Maudilia and Lesbia Magaly Raxjal Casia, Mayan farmers and members of a local growers association, welcome visitors to their village farm site in Chuixilón, Santa Cruz Balanyá. These indigenous entrepreneurs, who successfully produce tomatoes, onions, and strawberries, demonstrate how floating cover technology adapts traditional farming to climate challenges. Their leadership in sharing climate-smart practices on their ancestral territory inspires agricultural innovation throughout Guatemala's highl

Local Led Innovation in Guatemala's Indigenous Communities: Building Climate Resilience Together

Through a Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture Lab project, small-scale producers use floating covers, blending traditional knowledge with new tech to transform farming and combat climate change impacts.

Farmers learning-by-doing about ASD, in severely infested root knot nematode field at Hetauda. Image credit: Ram Khadka.

Improving soil health for increased yields, profitability and enhanced nutrition in Nepal and Bangladesh

In Nepal, a lack of crop rotation has exacerbated soilborne diseases, leading to decreased farm profitability and discouraging younger generations from farming. Learn how Dr. Ram B. Khadka and Dr. Ranjana Rawal are addressing these issues through anaerobic soil disinfestation (ASD) trials and capacity strengthening of the farmers in the form of mother and baby trials.

Journal Article: Postharvest technologies for small-scale farmers in low- and middle-income countries; a call to action

Journal article

Mitigating soilborne diseases to improve smallholder farmer livelihoods and food security in Nepal

Led by Ram Khadka, Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC)

To ensure long-term food and nutritional security for farmers in Nepal, this project focuses on developing accessible technologies to reduce soil-borne pathogens to increase vegetable production yields.

Nepal

Improving nutrition and immunity with dry chain and integrated pest management food technologies in LMICs

Journal article

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