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Celebrating 10 years of biocontrol success: Rwanda’s journey in sustainable pest management
October 15, 2024
Stefan Toepfer, Wayne Coles
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Rwandan Agriculture and Animal Resource Board (RAB), CABI and its partners, are marking a significant milestone – 10 years of success in mass-producing biocontrol agents at their Rubona facility located in Huye district in Rwanda. This achievement highlights Rwanda’s commitment to sustainable agricultural practices through innovative pest management solutions, primarily the production of beneficial nematodes…
Training on mass production of entomopathogenic nematodes for biological control of invasive insect pests
December 20, 2023
Stefan Toepfer, Wayne Coles
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A team of global experts in the production of biocontrol agent provided a practical training on the mass culture of entomopathogenic nematodes at the Biocontrol Agent Facility of Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resource Development Board (RAB), writes Dr Stefan Toepfer and Wayne Coles.
The power of negative results: paper on problems managing western corn rootworm among most downloaded in 2020
January 27, 2021
Stefan Toepfer
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Negative results, such as the failure of detecting factorial effects, are often not published. This is due to humans’ positive test bias trying to prove rather to reject their hypothesis.
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