FABI and the ICFR combine expertise in Ethiopia

In January FABI researchers Professors Brett Hurley , Irene Barnes and Bernard Slippers joined researchers from the Institute for Commercial Forestry Research (ICFR) , Dr Ilaria Germishuizen and Greg Fuller , on a field trip in the southern regions of Ethiopia. This is part of a five-year ‘Management of pests and diseases of forest crops in Ethiopia’, funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) , and involving the University of Sunshine Coast (Brisbane, Australia), the C entre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) , the Ethiopian Forest Development , ICFR and FABI. The broader project aims to ‘develop and implement sustainable management for key insect pests and diseases of Acacias, eucalypts and Moringa in Ethiopia to strengthen and sustain livelihoods and forest enterprises’, but the specific objectives of this field trip were to: 1