PMC14 Délémont, Switzerland, October, 1996

PMC15 Eschborn, Germany, December 1997

PMC16 Den Haag, Netherlands, November 1998

See report LUBILOSA 1997 (7)

The 1998 LUBILOSA partner's meeting took place 27 - 30 April 1998. A meeting report is available (LUBILOSA 1998 (7)), containing full details of LUBILOSA partner field trials conducted during the 1997 field season. The meeting was attended by PV directors for the first time, also a representative of Calliope for NPP. The results of the EAC mission were presented, and broadly accepted by the participants.

Four working groups split up to examine the following issues:

• Politics, supply and funding of pesticides
• The 1998 campaign
• Information
• Gender issues

Reports were presented in plenary session, and a discussion on the implementation of use strategies ensued. The draft LUBILOSA phase 4 proposal was found to have too much emphasis on Product Stewardship, and was expanded to include use strategies and information/stakeholder engagement.

Programme meetings were not funded in phase 3, and took place on an ad hoc basis whenever a critical mass of project scientists were present in one place. Programme meetings were held at SIP meetings in Cordoba, Spain in 1996 and Banff, Canada in 1997. A programme meeting was held in Niamey in 1998 after the partners meeting.

The first external advisory committee (EAC)review took place in Ascot, Sept/Oct 1997. The EAC thought it likely that LUBILOSA would meet its principal objectives, of having a Metarhizium-based mycopesticide on the market and in use at at least one pilot site. However, they considered that its use would not be sustainable without further support ('product stewardship'), also that the LUBILOSA expertise should be applied to the development of further mycopesticide products. The EAC also commented that an implementation project should be implemented to assure a sustainable future of the novel technology in W-Africa.

Second EAC review was held immediately prior to PMC16.