1986 · Over the African cassava belt
Two thousand wasps a second
The release method sounded absurd until you watched the parcels leave the aircraft door over the cassava belt.
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1981 · Paraguay & Brazil
Looking for a ghost in Paraguay
Cassava came from the Amazon. So did its pest. The enemy of that enemy had to be found where both were at home.
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BCP-8368
Biol. Control · IITA
H
Hans R. Herren
Programme / PHMD director
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BCP-3575
Biol. Control · IITA
P
Peter Neuenschwander
Entomologist; BCP leader; PHMD director
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BCP-6508
Biol. Control · IITA
J
J. S. Yaninek
Acarologist (cassava green mite)
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BCP-9001
Biol. Control · IITA
W
W. N. O. Hammond
Entomologist; regional coordinator / TT&TU
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BCP-3353
Biol. Control · IITA
F
F. Schulthess
Ecologist
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BCP-3874
Biol. Control · IITA
C
C. J. Lomer
Insect pathologist; BCP programme leader
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BCP-7252
Biol. Control · IITA
G
Georg Goergen
Entomologist
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BCP-8927
Biol. Control · IITA
R
R. H. Markham
Entomologist
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