RESOLUTION REACHED DURING THE FINAL DAY OF THE  INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON EXOTIC APHID PESTS ON CONIFERS,
A CRISIS IN AFRICAN FORESTRY MUGUGA, KENYA 3 -6 JUNE, 1981

1.0 The Workshop noted the following points:

1. This was the first regional meeting of forest protection scientists in Africa and;
2. There is an urgent need to initiate regional cooperation in training, research, quarantine services, exchange of technical expertise and information.

2.0 Recognizing that:

1. The cypress aphid and the pine aphids pose a serious threat to the forest resources and wood based industries in the eastern and southern African region and that the consequences of the damage caused by these conifer aphids cut across national and ownership boundaries within the region and;
2. There is a lack of information on their biologies, population dynamics and possible avenues of control and that capabilities existing in individual countries fall below the technical capacities required for the management of these aphids.

The Workshop recommends that the countries in eastern and southern Africa should establish a network to address the following activities:

1. Training.
2. In formation exchange, through a newsletter, etc.
3. Collaborative research, detection and monitoring, screening of insecticides, ecological and socio-economic impact studies, integrated pest management and other development activities.
4. Quarantine services.
5. Exchange of expertise.
6. Public awareness and education.
7. Collaboration in pest management programmes between national institutions with relevant regional and international organizations, such as FAO, IIBC, ICIPE and the PTA etc.

3. The network would stimulate beneficial synergy, an essential ingredient for an expedited solution of constraints to integrated management of the exotic aphids and related pernicious forest pests in the region.
4. The proposed regional biological control programme to be funded by CIDA and implemented by IIBC and national institutions, Kenya's IPN project on cypress aphid and the IIBC - Malawian project will form part of the network.
5. KEFRI will provide a secretariat to coordinate the network and together with a committee including representatives of collaborating countries, will develop a regional programme embracing activities under reference and will approach funding institutions such as ODA, CIDA, IDA and IDRC, etc. and arrange appropriate follow - up activities.
6. FAO and/or IDRC and/or PTA will be approached to fund a meeting of the committee not less than six months from the date of this workshop, to develop a modus operandi for this network.
7. The secretariat will liaise with existing networks in Africa and elsewhere, such as ICIPE's PESTNET and FAO's Forestry Commissions for guidance.