Dramatically increased accessibility and decreased cost-per-person impacts are needed for scaling IPM in Africa

Bello-Bravo J.; Medendorp J.; Lutomia A.N.; Peter Reeves N.; Sal Y Rosas Celi V.G.; Tamò M.; Pittendrigh B. · Current opinion in insect science (2022) · DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2022.100971

Resumen

While traditional scaling for integrated pest management (IPM) in Africa requires the movement of expert trainers from village to village, these efforts are often costly, time-inefficient, hampered by distance, and became impossible under COVID-19's movement restrictions (despite tremendously increased public need for IPM-scaling knowledge). One solution to this dilemma is IPM-scaling, usable by a diversity of development actors expending limited or few resources, to deliver critical information to large numbers of people with systems-approach information and communication technologies. This paper describes one such systems-approach scaling platform, Scientific Animations Without Borders, which effectively elicited end-user solution-adoption and decreased unit costs over increasing scales in three African countries during COVID-19. How to scale game-changing IPM insights 'off the shelf' and 'into people's hands in the field' is also discussed. Copyright

Instituciones: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú