Third FAO/IAEA International Conference on Area-Wide Management of Insect Pests: Integrating the Sterile Insect and Related Nuclear and Other Techniques

The Conference was held from 22 - 26 May 2017 at the Vienna International Centre, Vienna, Austria. The successful conference was attended by 360 delegates from 81 countries, six international organization, and nine exhibitors. The concept of area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM), targets the total population of a pest in an area in an integrated and sustainable way. As in the two previous FAO/IAEA Area-wide Conferences in Penang 1998 and Vienna 2005, it covered the area-wide approach in a very broad sense, including the development and integration of many technologies not involving the sterile insect technique (SIT).

The Conference was structured into select plenary lectures, six theme-specific sessions with keynote addresses, 55 oral presentations, 206 posters and three panel discussions.

- Book of abstracts- pdf

Presentations - pdf: Monday 22 May 2017, Operational Area-wide Insect Pest Management Programmes, Session 1 

• Use of Pheromones to Disrupt Mating of Moth Pests in Area-Wide Management Programmes, Ring T. Carde. 
• Fruit fly Programmes in Latin America, Pedro Rendon and Walther Enkerlin. 
• Area-wide Management of Fruit Flies in a Tropical Mango Growing Area Using the Sterile Insect Technique: From a Research Project to an Operational Programme, Pablo Liedo, Pablo Montoya and Jorge Toledo. 
• The Suppression of the False Codling Moth, Thaumatotibia leucotreta in South Africa using an AW-IPM Approach with a SIT Component, Nevill Boersma. 
• Area Wide Management of Rice Pests in Asia through Integrating Ecological Engineering Techniques, Kong Luen Heong. 
• Past, Present and Future - a Road Map to Integrated, Area-wide, Systems, and Enterprise Risk Management Approaches to Pest Control, Kenneth Bloem. 
• Technical Innovations in Global Desert Locust Early Warning, Keith Cressman. 
• Area-wide Biological Control Using the Parasitic Natural Enemy Aphidius gifuensis (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) to Control Myzus persicae (Homoptera: Aphididae) in China, Hailin Yang et al. 
• Exclusion, Suppression and Eradication of Pink Bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders)) from the Southwestern US and Northern Mexico, Eoin Davis. 
• Holistic Area-wide Approach for Successfully Managing Citrus Greening (Huanglongbing) in Mexico, Clemente de Jesus Garcia Avila. 
• Putting Sterile Insect Technique into the Modern IPM Toolbox: Over 20 years of successful area-wide integrated pest management in Canadian pome fruit, Cara Nelson. 
• Advances in Integrated Tick Management for Area-wide Mitigation of Tick-borne Disease Burden, Adalberto Perez de Leon

Tuesday 23 May 2017, Mosquitoes and Human Health, Session 2 

• Efficient Sex Separation in Aedes Mosquitoes Using Image Analysis and Elimination of Females by Laser Beams, Carlos Tur. 
• Area-Wide Mosquito Management in the Americas, Graham White. 
• Wolbachia Aedes - An additional Tool to Control Aedes aegypti in Singapore, Lee Ching Ng. 
• Aedes Aegypti Control Programmes in Brazil, Margareth Capurro. 
• New approaches for the Area-wide Genetic Control of Insect Populations, Nikolai Windbichler. 
• Eliminate Dengue our challenge, Peter Ryan. 
• The Elimination of Malaria in Sri Lanka, Rajitha Wickremasinghe. 
• The WHO Vector Control Advisory Group (VCAG), Raman Velayudhan. 
• RNAi Strategies in Support of Mosquito SIT Applications, Steve Whyard.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, Animal Health, Session 3 

• Mapping Landscape Friction to Locate Isolated Tsetse Populations that are Candidates for Elimination, Ahmadou Dicko. 
• The Eradication of the Tsetse Fly Glossina palpalis gambiensis from the Niayes of Senegal Using an Area-wide Integrated Pest Management Approach that Includes the Release of Sterile Males, Baba Sall et al. 
• Area-wide Management of Stable Flies, David Taylor. 
• Paratransgenesis as a Tool to Block Trypanosome Transmission by Tsetse, Jan van den Abbeele. 
• Buffalo Flies (Haematobia exigua): Expanding their Range in Australia: The Opportunity for Area Wide Controls, Peter James. 
• Achievements & Challenges of T & T Control Operations in the Southern Rift Valley of Ethiopia, Zerihun Woldesenbet.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, Regulatory Issues and Socio-economic Impact, Session 4 

• Avoiding Trade Restrictions due to Questionable Assertions about Taxonomy, Hosts, and Geographic Distribution of Regulated Pests, Guy J. Hallman. 
• Public-private Partnerships: How Much Should Producers Pay and How Much Should Governments Subsidize Area-wide Programmes?, John Mumford. 
• "Nagoya protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing”: The End of Biological Control?, Joop C. van Lenteren. 
• Regulatory and Societal Considerations of New Genetic Techniques, Kaare Magne Nielsen. 
• Evaluating Costs and Benefits of AWM using SIT for Qfly, B. tryoni: Links to Spatial Population Simulations, Nancy A. Schellhorn 
• The Relationship between the Phytosanitary Regulatory Framework and International Trade – Case Studies, Stephanie Bloem. 
• Methods to Quantify Invasive Pest Risk and Socioeconomic Impacts for Objective Regulatory Decisionmaking: Case Studies on Area-Wide-Related Programs, Trang T. Vo.

Thursday 25 May, Climate Change, Global Trade and Invasive Species, Session 5 

• Area-Wide Management of Invading Gypsy Moth (Lymantria dispar) Populations in the USA, Andy Liebhold. 
• GIS-based Modelling to Predict the Impact of Climate Change on Medfly Populations in Central America and Decision Making Support for Pest Management, Estuardo Lira et al. 
• Mediterranean Fruit Fly Eradication Programme in the Dominican Republic, Gregory Marte. 
• Area-Wide Program to Eradicate the European Grapevine Moth, Lobesia botrana in California, USA, Greg Simmons et al. 
• Drosophila Suzukii Invasions and Options for Management, Hannah Burrack et al. 
• Global Trends in Arthropod Eradication Programs – Towards Integrated Pest Eradication, Max Suckling, John Kean and Lloyd Stringer. 
• Climate and Mediterranean Fruit Fly Invasion Persistence: Insights from Agent-Based Simulations, Nicholas C. Manoukis and Travis C. Collier.

Thursday 25 May 2017, New Developments and Tools for Area-wide Integrated Pest Management, Session 6 

• The Importance of Dormancy and Dormancy Management to Biological Control and Area-Wide approaches, Daniel Hahn. 
• The Role of Drones in AW-IPM Programmes: a Drone for Sterile Tsetse Releases in Ethiopia, David Benavente and Rafael Argiles. 
• The Potential Addition of SIR and Bt-sugarcane to the Toolbox of an AW-IPM Programme against Eldana saccharina in South African Sugarcane, Desmond Conlong and RS Rutherford. 
• A Staged, Progressive Pathway for the Control and Elimination of Tsetse-transmitted African Animal Trypanosomosis, Guiliano Cecchi et al. 
• “Boosted SIT”: Auto-dissemination as an Additional Tool in AW-IPM Programmes, Jeremy Bouyer.

Friday 26 May 2017, Discussion Panels, Session 7 

• Engaging the public in support of Area-wide Integrated Pest Management, Pamela Pennington.