Grant Information

SAFEGUARDING OUR BORDERS AND ADVANCING LOCAL TO INTERNATIONAL FOOD SECURITY, ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY AND HUMAN HEALTH THROUGH INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT

Sponsoring Institution National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Status COMPLETE
Funding Source HATCH
Division NIFA Formula
Reporting Frequency Annual
Project Director Seth Carley, Danesha
Accession Number 1013764
Project Number NC02647
Dates 2017-10-03 - 2022-09-30
Animal Health Component 50%
Performing Department Center for Integrated Pest Mgmt (CIPM)
Recipient Organization NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIV

RALEIGH,NC 27695
Keywords big data
integrated pest management; ipm
interdisciplinary and multi-state
partnership
research extension and education
training
Research Effort Applied (50%)
Basic (0%)
Developmental (50%)
Classification Parameters
Knowledge AreaSubject of InvestigationField of SciencePercent
211 - Insects, Mites, and Other Arthropods Affecting Plants 2499 - Plant research, general 1130 - Entomology and acarology 40%
205 - Plant Management Systems 2499 - Plant research, general 3030 - Information and communication 20%
212 - Pathogens and Nematodes Affecting Plants 2499 - Plant research, general 1160 - Pathology 20%
213 - Weeds Affecting Plants 2499 - Plant research, general 1140 - Weed science 10%
214 - Vertebrates, Mollusks, and Other Pests Affecting Plants 2499 - Plant research, general 1060 - Biology (whole systems) 10%
Non-technical Summary

Designing sustainable pest management systems to limit losses due to established pests and invasives is a grand challenge faced by modern societies world-wide with local, regional and national-specific issues. CIPM seeks to provide innovative and flexible leadership to develop focused programs and advance the success of stakeholders, cooperators and citizens to understand and manage pests that threaten our agricultural, urban and natural resources. To that end, CIPM will seek to build programs that are interdisciplinary; typically combine research, extension and/or education components, and address the most critical stakeholder and national IPM priorities. CIPM has expertise in designing and managing databases and understanding the utility of the aggregated information and knowledge. This strength will be used to support cooperating partner missions and goals to advance regulatory and "on-the-ground" pest management decisions. CIPM also has strength to develop proposals and manage large projects that bring together teams of experts and practitioners. Proposals and programs will be developed to address specific issues best solved through cooperative efforts and within a social-ecological context. Addressing priority and emerging IPM challenges will enable a diverse range of stakeholders to make IPM-based decisions and equip students and professionals for future IPM successes.

Goals / Objectives

The Mission of the NC State - NSF Center for Integrated Pest Management (CIPM) is to foster an interdisciplinary team of expert leaders and staff that has an adaptive capacity to engage with partners and address integrated pest management (IPM) priorities at local, regional, national and international levels.The five central goals of the Center are to:

  1. Design Local to Global Systems to Manage Pests: Fostering IPM development and adoption. We will compete for funding, assemble transdisciplinary teams of experts and stakeholders, and manage the integration of research, extension and education into programs that advance effective IPM implementation in agricultural, natural resource and urban environments. Examples of major programs include the Southern Region IPM program (SIPMC; one of four regional USDA IPM centers) and the Extension IPM program for the State of NC (EIPM-NC).
  2. Advance Regulatory Pest Informatics: Stopping Pests at Borders. We will work closely with cooperators to safeguard American agricultural and natural resources against invasive species. Primary cooperators include multiple divisions of USDA-APHIS, State regulatory agencies and cooperating international agencies. The primary goal of this work is to discover, collate and manage information to optimize regulatory decisions and actions that limit introduction and/or negative economic impact of invasive species.
  3. Lead Proposal Development and Project Management Opportunities: From proposals to projects. We will enhance the Center's expertise and capacity to lead or co-lead opportunities to assemble expert teams of cooperators and then develop and manage large grants/programs to implement IPM solutions to identified national IPM priorities. Examples of programs envisioned include those that support ipm Pest Information Platform for Extension and Education programs (e.g. iPiPE) and multi-institutional high priority specialty crop research projects (i.e. USDA-SCRI).
  4. Lead Innovations in Social-Ecological Pest Analytics: Harmonizing Pest Management. We are rethinking IPM as a Social-Ecological System (SES) that reflects our increasingly complex society where pest management focusses on benefits for primary agricultural producers and food security, on human health benefits, on ecosystems services, on regulatory compliance and on market-based forces driven by consumers and other stakeholders. This work seeks to promote research and outcomes into methodologies that would balance the benefits of pest management against the costs of strategies that ensure resilient pest management.
  5. Train the Next Generation: Ensuring the future of Crop Protection and Regulatory Pest Management. This is inherently built within the first four goals but the future of IPM success is, in part, based on the intentional training of undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral students as well as advancing professional training opportunities in IPM systems including crop protection and regulatory pest management. We will seek opportunities to train the next generation in all aspects of our work.
Methods (unparsed)

CIPM will develop teams and guide the competition for, and management of, research, extension and education programs that advance effective IPM implementation and SES in agricultural, natural resource and urban environments.CIPM will work with USDA APHIS to design databases and develop pathway- risk-analysis and decision tools to prevent invasive pests from entering the USA and to design response capacity if invasives secure a foothold. CIPM will also work with USDA-NIFA, other agencies and non-government partners to develop and manage databases that facilitate the management of IPM programs and implementation of IPM methodologies in diverse systems.CIPM will build and enhance capacity in proposal development and project implementation with diverse stakeholders to address stakeholder and national IPM priorities, especially in plant systems.Professionals will be trained through experiences and professional opportunities within CIPM and through training materials CIPM will develop for stakeholders. Students will be trained within the Center, in partnership with collaborating faculty and through multi-institutional and agency grants/programs.

Methods
  1. CIPM will develop teams and guide the competition for, and management of, research, extension and education programs that advance effective IPM implementation and SES in agricultural, natural resource and urban environments.
  2. CIPM will work with USDA APHIS to design databases and develop pathway- risk-analysis and decision tools to prevent invasive pests from entering the USA and to design response capacity if invasives secure a foothold. CIPM will also work with USDA-NIFA, other agencies and non-government partners to develop and manage databases that facilitate the management of IPM programs and implementation of IPM methodologies in diverse systems.
  3. CIPM will build and enhance capacity in proposal development and project implementation with diverse stakeholders to address stakeholder and national IPM priorities, especially in plant systems.
  4. .Professionals will be trained through experiences and professional opportunities within CIPM and through training materials CIPM will develop for stakeholders. Students will be trained within the Center, in partnership with collaborating faculty and through multi-institutional and agency grants/programs.
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Outputs

Target Audience
Farmers, greenhouse growers, facility managers, grounds maintenance personnel, pest management professionals, homeowners, Federal government, State Govenment, Professors, students, and Extention professionals

Changes / Problems
CIPM is 99% self-funded. It would be great to have our College provide additional funds and support to our programs.

Training & Professional Development
Nothing Reported

Dissemination Streams
We share relavent reports and papers directly with stakeholders. Aditionally, clearly anything published in journals are open to anyone resding those publications.

Next Reporting Steps
Nothing Reported

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