On-farm augmentative releases of the parasitoid Habrobracon hebetor (Say) for controlling the millet head miner (MHM) Heliocheilus albipunctella (de Joannis) were tested in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger from 2007 to 2009. In addition, a survey of farmers’ perceptions of insect pests, with particul...
Ba, Malick N.
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Baoua, I.
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N'Diaye, M.
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Dabiré, C.
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Sanon, A.
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Tamò, M.
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[Biological control of the millet head miner Heliocheilus albipunctella in the Sahelian region by augmentative releases of the parasitoid wasp Habrobracon hebetor: effectiveness and farmers perceptions]
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Biological control of the millet head miner Heliocheilus albipunctella in the Sahelian region by augmentative releases of the parasitoid wasp Habrobracon hebetor: effectiveness and farmers perceptions
Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata Walp.) is the most economically important legume crop in arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Cowpea is grown primarily by subsistence farmers who consume the leaves, pods and grain on farm or sell grain in local markets. Processed cowpea foods such as akara (a deep-fat f...
Ba, Malick N.
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Huesing, J.E.
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Tamo, M.
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Higgins, T.J.V.
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Pittendrigh, B.R.
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Murdock, L.L.
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[An assessment of the risk of Bt-cowpea to non-target organisms in west Africa]
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An assessment of the risk of Bt-cowpea to non-target organisms in west Africa
This article explores an innovative approach to deliver information about new agricultural technology that combines a versatile and potentially lower cost method of developing animated videos with another low-cost method of sharing it on mobile devices (i.e. mobile phone). It describes a randomiz...
Maredia, Mywish K.
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Reyes, Byron
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Ba, Malick N.
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Dabiré, Clementine L.
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Pittendrigh, Barry R.
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Bello-Bravo, Julia
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[Can mobile phone-based animated videos induce learning and technology adoption among low-literate farmers? A field experiment in Burkina Faso]
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Can mobile phone-based animated videos induce learning and technology adoption among low-literate farmers? A field experiment in Burkina Faso
Despite its theoretical prominence and sound principles, integrated pest management (IPM) continues to suffer from anemic adoption rates in developing countries. To shed light on the reasons, we surveyed the opinions of a large and diverse pool of IPM professionals and practitioners from 96 count...
Parsa, Soroush
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Morse, Stephen
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Bonifacio, Alejandro
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Chancellor, Timothy C.B.
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Condori, B.
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Crespo Pérez, Verónica
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Hobbs, Shaun LA
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Kroschel, J.
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Ba, Malick N.
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Rebaudo, François
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Sherwood, Stephen G
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Vanek, Steven J.
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Faye, Emile
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Herrera, Mario A
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Dangles, Oliver
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[Obstacles to integrated pest management adoption in developing countries]
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Obstacles to integrated pest management adoption in developing countries
The legume pod borer, Maruca vitrata, is an endemic insect pest that causes significant yield loss to the cowpea crop in West Africa. The application of population genetic tools is important in the management of insect pests but such data on M. vitrata is lacking. We applied a set of six microsat...
Agunbiade, T.A.
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Coates, B.S.
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Kim, S.K.
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Forgacs, D.
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Margam, V.M.
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Murdock, L.L.
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Ba, Malick N.
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Binso-Dabire, L.
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Baoua, I.
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Ishiyaku, M.
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Tamo, M.
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Pittendrigh, Barry R.
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[The spatial genetic differentiation of the legume pod borer, Maruca vitrata F. (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) populations in West Africa]
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The spatial genetic differentiation of the legume pod borer, Maruca vitrata F. (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) populations in West Africa
Cowpea is a widely cultivated and major nutritional source of protein for many people that live in West Africa. Annual yields and longevity of grain storage is greatly reduced by feeding damage caused by a complex of insect pests that include the pod sucking bugs, Anoplocnemis curvipes Fabricius ...
Agunbiade, T.A.
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Sun, W.
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Coates, B.S.
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Djouaka, R.F.
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Tamo, M.
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Ba, Malick N.
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Binso-Dabire, L.
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Baoua, I.
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Olds, B.P.
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Pittendrigh, Barry R.
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[Development of reference transcriptomes for the major field insect pests of cowpea: a toolbox for insect pest management approaches in West Africa]
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Development of reference transcriptomes for the major field insect pests of cowpea: a toolbox for insect pest management approaches in West Africa
The fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, a moth originating from tropical and subtropical America, has recently become a serious pest of cereals in sub-Saharan Africa. Biological control offers an economically and environmentally safer alternative to synthetic insecticides that are being used fo...
Kenis, M.
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Plessis, H. du
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Berg, J. van den
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Ba, Malick N.
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Goergen, Georg E.
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Kwadjo, K.E.
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Baoua, I.
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Tefera, T.
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Buddie, A.
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Cafa, G.
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Offord, L.
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Rwomushana, I.
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Polaszek, A.
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[Telenomus Remus, a candidate parasitoid for the biological control of Spodoptera Frugiperda in Africa, is already present on the continent]
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Telenomus Remus, a candidate parasitoid for the biological control of Spodoptera Frugiperda in Africa, is already present on the continent
Wecreated a detailed model of the Maruca vitrata (F.) and cowpea [Vigna unguiculata
(L.) Walp] system to study the possible evolution of resistance by the insect to transgenic insecticidal
cowpea, which is under development. We focused on population dynamics and genetics in a region
of west Afric...
Onstad, D.W.
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Kang, J.
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Ba, Malick N.
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Tamo, M.
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Jackai, L.E.N.
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Dabiré, C.
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Pittendrigh, Barry R.
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[Modeling evolution of resistance by Maruca vitrata (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) to transgenic insecticidal cowpea in Africa]
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Modeling evolution of resistance by Maruca vitrata (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) to transgenic insecticidal cowpea in Africa