Synergies between research organisations and the wider community in enhancing weed biological control in South Africa

Martin, Grant D; Hill, Martin P; Coetzee, Julie A; Weaver, Kim N; Hill, Jaclyn M

Title: Synergies between research organisations and the wider community in enhancing weed biological control in South Africa
Creator: Martin, Grant D, Hill, Martin P, Coetzee, Julie A, Weaver, Kim N, Hill, Jaclyn M
Date: 2018
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68452
Identifier: vital:29258
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10526-017-9846-4
Description: Biological control offers a cost effective and ecologically sustainable tool for the management of invasive alien plants. Its implementation, however, has historically been slow and poorly co-ordinated. In South Africa, as in many other countries, most aspects of biological control programmes were done by researchers, but from 1995 onwards, with the advent of the Working for Water Programme, a more inclusive approach to biological control has been adopted. In this paper, we report on the development of community-based biological control implementation programmes in South Africa, after 1995, and highlight a number of initiatives, including employing persons with disabilities at mass-rearing facilities and in particular, we outline a suite of educational and outreach programmes for the general public and for schools, which have increased capacity, education and employment in the field of weed biological control.
Format: 11 pages, pdf
Language: English
Relation: BioControl, Martin, G.D., Hill, M.P., Coetzee, J.A., Weaver, K.N. and Hill, J.M., 2018. Synergies between research organisations and the wider community in enhancing weed biological control in South Africa. BioControl, 63(3), pp.437-447., BioControl volume 63 number 3 437 447 June 2018 1573-8248
Rights: BioControl
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