FORTHCOMING MEETINGS

Yogyakarta, Indonesia

 In July, Yogyakarta becomes the IPM capital of Asia, with 4 major meetings taking place. Firstly there will be a Workshop for Asian IPM Trainers, with participants from 6 countries sharing their experiences.

Next is the Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting of the FAO Pogramme for Community IPM in Asia. This meeting will be attended by officials from 12 member countries, plus donor representatives, NGOs and FAO staff. The discussion sessions will cover three subjects: Community IPM and civil society, farmer-to-farmer training, and IPM farmers as scientists.

Overlapping with both of these events is a National IPM Farmers Meeting. It is expected that there will be nearly 500 participants, coming from IPM Farmers Associations across the country.

Finally, the 21^st Session of the Asia Pacific Plant Protection Commission (APPPC) will take place, involving officials from more than 20 countries. Although the APPPC was originally established to tackle plant quarantine issues, the meeting will include discussions by the Standing Committee on IPM.

Philippines, GO-NGO Dialogue

An NGO-Government Dialogue on IPM in Asia will take place in the Philippines in September. The Dialogue is being jointly organised by The IPM Forum, the International Institute for Rural Reconstruction (IIRR), the ASEAN IPM Knowledge Network, and the SEAMEO Regional Centre for Graduate Studies and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA). An important output of this event will be an inventory of regional IPM needs and resources, including strategies to promote the development and upscaling of IPM approaches, knowledge networking, and capacity building. For more information contact Alvin Tallada at the SEARCA/ASEAN IPM Knowledge Center. Fax: (63-49) 536-2914 or  Email agt@agri.searca.org 

RESOURCES

Documents

Participatory Integrated Pest Management  by Paul ter Weel and Harry van der Wulp, May 1999. Published by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs as part of a series of reports on Policy and Best Practice in Development Cooperation. This document summarises the lessons learned from IPM projects during the last 10 years, with many references to Training of Trainers and Farmer Field Schools in Asia,  and provides guidelines for future support. Available from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, PO Box 20061, 2500 EB The Hague, Netherlands. 

Evaluation of IPM Programs - Concepts and Methodologies, April1999. Papers presented at the 1^st Workshop on Evaluation of IPM Programs, authors include experts from the World Bank, FAO, World Resources Institute and Wageningen University. This is a publication of the Pesticide Policy Project of Hannover University, funded by GTZ. For details send an Email to Dr. Hermann Waibel at: waibel@ifgb.uni-hannover.de  

A Village Planning Meeting in Yen Phuong Village, 1999. A case study of participatory planning at the grassroots in Vietnam, which laid the foundation for Community IPM activities in one particular village. The exercises which are described include SWOT, vision-setting, village mapping, strategy analysis and the preparation of workplans.  Available from the FAO IPM office in Hanoi: ipm.hanoi@fpt.vn

A Manual to Facilitate Participatory Planning Activities, by Mufid Busyairi, 1999. A description of how to carry out the exercises mentioned in the case study above, plus other activities such as Alternative Analysis, Stake Holder Analysis, and the preparation of a Program Matrix. Available from the FAO IPM Office in Jakarta: CommunityIPM@IBM.Net