Integrated Pest Management  Collaborative Research  Support Program in Eastern Europe - Albania	Funded by: The United States Agency for International Development

 The IPM CRSP is a USAID-supported research, education/training, and information exchange collaborative partnership among US and developing country institutions.  It focuses on participatory and collaborative IPM research and education programs for horticultural export crops and other food production systems.  In the first version of the IPM CRSP, the Eastern European regional site focused on olive IPM in Albania.  The project resulted in significant economi)c benefits to Albania (See show in English or Albanian).  Since this project, awards for high-quality extra virgin Albanian olive oil were presented in Tirana on 28 June 2007.  In the new IPM CRSP, the Eastern European program has added Ukraine and Moldova, and shifted its focus to high value horticultural crops (tomato, cucumber, grape and apple).

• U.S. and Host Country Collaborators
• Cooperating Institutions
• US Agency for International Development (USAID): Albania
• New Web Site USAID mission in Albania
  
• Office of International Research, Education and Development (OIRED) (Virginia Tech)
• Virtual Site Tours
 
• Albanian High-value Horticulture Crops PA, 11 - 18 August 2004
• Planning trip to Albania, Moldova, Ukraine, 22 July - 2 August 2006
• Planning trip to Moldova, Ukraine, Albania, 6 - 26 July 2007

• Pests of High-Value Horticulture Crops in Regional Project
• Applying Pesticides in an IPM CRSP Project?
  


• About Albania
• Albanian weather (Tirana)
• World Factbook
• U.S. Library of Congress
• Albanian News (Albanian Daily News headlines)
  
• Maps of Albania: Political, Shaded relief, Area relative to Virginia, Detail (South, North), Population density
  
• Map of Tirana
• Satellite view of Albania

Updated 18 September 2007