My work on edible insects became a global game changer, highlighted by the publication of an Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) book and the organization of an international conference.

Integrated Pest Management

This concerns a number of projects such as:

Biocontrol of stemborers in Kenya

Biocontrol leaffolders in the Phillippines

IPM farmer field schools in Zanzibar

Managing bruchid pests in Benin

IPM in maize in Nicaragua

Locusts

We investigated strategies to manage the desert locust in Africa and the Middle East

Bruchids

This project deals with biological control of bruchids – storage pests of cowpea in West Africa – using an egg parasitoid.

CoS

The Convergence of Sciences project concerns an interdisplinary Research project dealing with investigating how to conduct agricultural research in West Africa.

Travel stories

As a student I spent one year in Africa. In three parts I documented this stay in three travel stories:

Half a year in Côte d’ Ivoire
6000 km accross Africa during Two months hitch hiking from Côte d’ Ivoire to Kenya
Half a year in Kenya: safaris and termite research

Insects in African Culture

In 1995 and 2000 I visited 27 countries in Africa and interviewed 250 people about the cultural aspect of insects as food, toy or medicine, and in stories, songs, etc., etc.

A number of articles have been published. I provide some highlights.