General resources, manuals, and handbooks

 

IPPC Secretariat. 2021. Prevention, preparedness, and response guidelines for Spodoptera frugiperda. Rome. FAO on behalf of the Secretariat of the International Plant Protection Convention. At https://doi.org/10.4060/cb5880en

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These guidelines aim to help national plant protection organisations (NPPOs) take suitable actions at the proper time against FAW through timely detection to prevent or slow the spread of the pest and reduce its negative impact. The guidelines are directed at NPPOs of countries where FAW fulfils the requirements to be regulated as a quarantine pest for applying internal quarantine and biosecurity measures.

 

FAO. 2021. General Guidelines for Developing and Implementing Regional IPM Strategy for Fall Armyworm Control in Demonstration Countries. At https://www.fao.org/3/cb7549en/cb7549en.pdf

 

These guidelines provide a framework for the development of regional strategies aimed at managing fall armyworms (FAW) by developing evidence-based integrated pest management (IPM) packages.

 

FAO. 2021. FAW Guidance Note 5: Fall armyworm Early Action Policy Guide. 4 pp. At https://www.fao.org/3/ca3800en/CA3800EN.pdf

 

This policy guide reviews the experiences and lessons learned from over 40 countries that have had to make quick policy and technical decisions that have set the groundwork for the sustainable management of FAW.

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FAO. 2020. Technical guidelines for sustainable management of fall armyworm in its year-round breeding areas. Guidance Note 9 [online]. Rome. 8 pp. At https://www.fao.org/3/ca8967en/CA8967EN.pdf

 

This guidance note aims to provide recommendations on sustainable FAW control for national task forces in Africa and Asia. It provides a brief background on the need to develop two complementary strategies for fall armyworm management: 1) one for the pest’s year-round breeding areas, and 2) another one along the pest’s

 

FAO. 2020. Technical guidelines for sustainable management of fall armyworm along its seasonal migration pathways. Guidance Note 11 [online]. Rome. 7 pp. At https://www.fao.org/3/ca9486en/CA9486EN.pdf

 

These technical guidelines focus on delineating management strategies for regions in Africa, the Near East and Asia along FAW seasonal migration pathways.

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CABI. 2019. Framework for Strategic Communication during Pest Outbreaks: Learning from fall armyworm. First Edition. CABI. 45 pp. At https://www.plantwise.org/FullTextPDF/2020/20207800001.pdf

 

A communications framework aimed at government policy and decision makers responsible for designing and implementing response mechanisms to pest outbreaks, as well as other key users, who can support its adoption and implementation.

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FAO & CABI. 2019. Fall armyworm photo guide: Identification [online]. Rome & Wallingford, UK, FAO & CABI. 2 pp. At 

https://www.fao.org/3/ca4856en/ca4856en.pdf

 

A useful photo identification guide to FAW

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FAO & CABI. 2019. Fall armyworm: life cycle and damage to maize [online]. Rome & Wallingford, UK, FAO & CABI. 1 pp. At https://www.cabi.org/isc/FullTextPDF/2019/20197800314.pdf

 

Fall armyworm: life cycle and damage to maize communications resource

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CABI. 2019. Fall armyworm: life cycle and damage to maize [video]. At https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZxVouWMt4&feature=youtu.be

 

Fall armyworm: life cycle and damage to maize [video].

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FAO. 2018. FAO guidance note 3: Fall armyworm trapping. Plant Production and Protection Division, FAO, Rome, Italy. At https://www.fao.org/3/I8322EN/i8322en.pdf

 

This guidance note provides information on the sustainable management of Fall Armyworm through trapping. The presence and build-up of FAW in a particular area can be detected by using pheromone traps.

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FAO Guidance Note 2. 2018. Fall armyworm Scouting. FAO. At https://www.fao.org/3/I8321EN/i8321en.pdf

 

This guidance note provides information on the sustainable management of Fall Armyworm through scouting.

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FAO. 2018. FAO guidance note 1: Reduction of human health and environmental risks of pesticides used for control of fall armyworm. Plant Production and Protection Division, FAO, Rome, Italy. At https://www.fao.org/3/I8320EN/i8320en.pdf

 

This guidance note provides information on the sustainable management of Fall Armyworm through the reduction of the human health risks of pesticides.

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Prasanna BM, Huesing JE, Eddy R and Peschke VM (eds) (2018) Fall Armyworm in Africa: A Guide for Integrated Pest Management, First Edition. Mexico, CDMX: CIMMYT. At https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/documents/1867/Fall-Armyworm-IPM-Guide-for-Africa-Jan_30-2018.pdf

 

A comprehensive manual for a broad range of public and private stakeholders – including national plant protection, research, and extension professionals – to access evidence-based approaches to sustainably manage FAW in Africa.

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Training of trainers

 

IPPC-FAO Webinar series for training on the IPPC-FAO Prevention, preparedness, and response guidelines for Spodoptera frugiperda. At https://www.fao.org/fall-armyworm/education/webinars/en/

 

Webinar series based on the IPPC-FAO Prevention, preparedness and response guidelines for Spodoptera frugiperda.

 

AgriTraining. 2020. Online Course on Fall Armyworm Mitigation: Learning Modules for Trainers of Smallholder Farmers in Africa.

At https://agritraining.co.za/fall-armyworm-faw-free-learning-modules/

 

7 Learning Modules designed to assist Trainers/Teachers of smallholder farmers in the training and advising of smallholder farmers on the management of the Fall Armyworm (FAW) pest. These Modules are based on Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) principles, with a focus on Fall Armyworm (FAW) mitigation.

 

FAO and CABI. 2019. Community-Based Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) Monitoring, Early warning and Management, Training of Trainers Manual. First Edition. 112 pp. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. At https://www.cabi.org/wp-content/uploads/ToT-manual.pdf

 

A practical training course for training trainers and training of community facilitators

 

FAO Global Action webinars. At https://www.fao.org/fall-armyworm/education/webinars/en/

 

A variety of webinars on the work of the Global Action, particularly on early warning and monitoring management.

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Farmer training

 

FAO (2018a) Integrated management of the Fall Armyworm on maize: A guide for Farmer Field Schools in Africa. Rome, 119pp. At https://www.fao.org/3/I8665EN/i8665en.pdf

 

The first part of the guide summarizes basic technical information on FAW; the second part describes in more detail how to integrate FAW management in an FFS, reflecting FFS experiences from West, Central, Southern and Eastern subregions of Africa and the recommendations of technical resource persons from the Americas and elsewhere.

 

FAO & CABI. 2019. Fall armyworm field handbook: Identification and management, 1st edn [online]. Rome & Wallingford, UK, FAO & CABI. 38 pp. At https://www.cabi.org/wp-content/uploads/FAW-pocket-guide.pdf

 

This field handbook is an adapted version of FAO and CABI (2019) Community-Based Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) Monitoring, Early warning and Management, Training of Trainers Manual, First Edition. It is intended to help extension workers and farmers in the field identify fall armyworms and know how to manage them.

 

FAO. 2019. Introduction to Farmer Field Schools. A Reader for Institutions of Higher Learning. Nairobi. 44 pp. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. At https://www.fao.org/3/ca3605en/ca3605en.pdf

 

The document introduces the fundamentals of FFS methodology and provides specific references for further reading.

 

FAO (2017) Discovery-based learning on land and water management: A practical guide for farmer field schools. Rome. 348 pp. Covers Africa, Asia and the Pacific. At http://www.fao.org/3/a-i6897e.pdf

 

The guide presents a collection of easily readable, illustrated modules for introducing and promoting improved soil and water management and wider catchment/landscape management using the FFS community-based education approach.

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FAO (2016) Farmer Field School guidance document – planning for quality programmes. Rome. 112 pp. At https://www.fao.org/3/i5296e/i5296e.pdf

 

This FFS Guidance Document is an evolving tool for developing high-quality programmes that are relevant to the specific needs of countries and are flexible and adapted to local conditions. The document provides essential elements for setting up programmes of field-based and season-long training of national trainers, from Master Trainers to local Facilitators.

 

Digital

 

FAO Fall Armyworm Monitoring and Early Warning System (FAMEWS). At https://www.fao.org/fall-armyworm/monitoring-tools/en/

 

The FAW Monitoring and Early Warning System (FAMEWS) provides a mobile app – available free of charge from the Google Play store – for data collection and to serve as a global platform for mapping the FAW.