Fried Green Tomatoes Grow Greener in Uganda (pdf)

Ever wonder how green your fried green tomatoes really are? With help from the Integrated Pest Management Collaborative Research Support Program (IPM CRSP), Ugandan tomato growers know how to make them greener.   Working alongside local scientists from Makerere University in Kampala, IPM CRSP showed Ugandan tomato growers how to use environmentally friendly pest management techniques. As a result, they decreased pesticide use by a whopping 75%.

Catching Quechers in Mali  (pdf)

Toxicologist Halimatou Traoré knew that chemists in West Africa needed a workshop to train them in the newly acclaimed “QuEChERS” (pronounced “catchers”) pesticide residue analysis method. Not only would learning this technique give them a “quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, safe” method (the acronym comes from the adjectives) for extracting and analyzing pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables, it would also enhance their credibility with international standards organizations.

Pesticide Booklets Help Literacy in Rural Mali  (pdf)

Researchers funded by a Virginia Tech/USAID program who set out to teach Malian villagers good pesticide practices found they had unwittingly created highly prized “readers” in a local language. It happened quite by accident. Under Virginia Tech’s Integrated Pest Management Collaborative Research Support Program (IPM CRSP), a USAID-funded initiative, Tech researchers were helping the government of Mali set up a crop quality assurance program. Part of such a program is training people in appropriate use of pesticides.