FAO and Thai Education Foundation is organizing a series of regional webminar on “Sustainable management of Fall Armyworm: IPM, Biocontrol and Farmer Field Schools” during October 29th, November 3rd and November 6th, 2020.  The regional training aims to:  

 

• Improve knowledge and skills on Integrated Pest Management for Fall Armyworm;
• Improve knowledge and skills on biocontrol options for FAW;
• Get familiar with FAW monitoring tools and protocols, including FAMEWS;
• Fine-tune the Farmer Field School curricula by integrating FAW IPM and biocontrol, including agroecological approaches;
• Develop and share national action plans for fortifying refresher training of trainer, farmers field schools and other short hands-on learning courses on FAW.
• Participants will include governmental agencies, international organizations, civil societies, and academics with priorities are from South, Southeast Asia and South Pacific countries.  

 

• FAO FAW Global action plan with focus on Asia, Introduction to FAMEWS, ASEAN FAW Action Plan, Biological control with country case studies from Philippines, India and China.

 

• Summary on Status of FAW and national policies;  
• Selected country and subject matter presentations aimed at sharing innovative R&D and Training/FFS/action research efforts for sustainable FAW management

• Sharing of available and development of new training materials on FAW; Digital training technologies and integration in farmer training plans; Development and sharing of national FFS/training action plans for FAW and exploring future development needs.