Through multidisciplinary research in Europe, Cuba,
Mexico and Australia this project aims to provide 
socially and economically sustainable strategies for
pest control in peri-urban and urban vegetable 
production in Latin America.

A significant limitation to the sustainable production 
of crops world-wide is the management of foliar and 
soil invertebrate pests. Safe and effective control 
strategies as alternatives to expensive and often 
environmentally damaging pesticides are urgently
required. The development of fungi as microbial
control agents offers potential in this regard.

We will address the current limitations to uptake of 
fungal control agents which include an incomplete 
knowledge of the parameters affecting transmission, 
lack of field and farm-scale evaluation and quality 
control problems in production, formulation and 
application.