Fall armyworm: impacts and implications for Africa.

By I. Rwomushana, M. Bateman, T. Beale, P. Beseh, Katherine H. Cameron, M. Chiluba, V. Clottey, Tamsin Davis, R. Day, R. Early and 11 more. 2017

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Subfields: Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Maize–Legume Intercropping and Push–Pull for Management of Fall Armyworm, Stemborers, and Striga in Uganda (2018, background): “Fall armyworm is a polyphagous insect, with more than 80 host species, that causes severe damage to economically important crops (Goergen et al., 2016; Roger et al., 2017).”
• Forecasting the global extent of invasion of the cereal pest Spodoptera frugiperda, the fall armyworm (2018, background): “Thus, it is likely that the species will continue its rapid infilling of its potential African range (Day et al. 2017).”
• Status and control measures of fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) infestations in maize fields in Ethiopia: A review (2019, background): “However, it has now invaded Africa (Day et al., 2017; Goergen, Kumar, Sankung, Togola, & Tamo, 2016) and is rapidly spreading throughout tropical and subtropical regions of the continent.”
• Host Plants of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in the Americas (2018, methodology): “Based on estimates published by the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (Day et al. 2017), in the absence of proper control methods, S. frugiperda has the potential to cause maize yield losses of 8.3 to 20.6 t per year, in just 12 of Africa’s maize-producing countries.”
• Biology, invasion and management of the agricultural invader: Fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) (2021, background): “Whereas in the invaded countries, such as most of Africa, it occurs throughout the year with overlapping generations wherever host plants are available and climatic conditions are favorable (Abrahams et al. 2017).”
• Ovicidal effects of entomopathogenic fungal isolates on the invasive Fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) (2019, background): “These ongoing efforts that are less reliant on pesticides have positively impacted maize production and its utilization (Cook, Khan, & Pickett, 2007; Day et al., 2017; Kfir et al., 2002).”
• Assessment of potential biopesticide options for managing fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) in Africa (2018, background): “, Biological control in IPM systems in Africa (pp. 329–346).”
• Tackling fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) outbreak in Africa: an analysis of farmers’ control actions (2019, positive): “A recent study by Abrahams et al. (2017) has shown that in the absence of control methods, FAW has potential to cause about 21% to 53% reduction in annual maize production (or US$2,481 to US$6,187 million economic damage) in 12 maize-producing countries in Africa.”
• Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) management by smallholders. (2019, background): “[27], which said: ‘53% of farmers in Ghana and 43% of farmers in Zambia used pesticides (in 2018).”
• Understanding the factors influencing fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda J.E. Smith) damage in African smallholder maize fields and quantifying its impact on yield. A case study in Eastern Zimbabwe (2019, result): “The levels of incidence of plants with FAW damage symptoms recorded in this research are commensurate with levels found by other studies conducted on the continent (Abrahams et al., 2017; Rwomushana et al., 2018).”