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- Traditional methods for scaling integrated pest management (IPM) in Africa are expensive and inefficient, especially impacted by COVID-19 restrictions, leading to a greater need for effective solutions.
- A proposed solution involves using a systems-approach with technology to share vital IPM information broadly while conserving resources.
- The paper highlights the success of the Scientific Animations Without Borders platform in promoting effective IPM practices in three African countries during the pandemic, emphasizing strategies for delivering practical insights directly to end-users.
Article Abstract
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.
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2022.100971 | DOI Listing |
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