While traditional scaling for integrated pest management (IPM) in Africa requires the movement of expert trainers from village to village, these efforts are often costly, time-inefficient, hampered by distance, and became impossible under COVID-19's movement restrictions (despite tremendously increased public need for IPM-scaling knowledge). One solution to this dilemma is IPM-scaling, usable by a diversity of development actors expending limited or few resources, to deliver critical information to large numbers of people with systems-approach information and communication technologies. This paper describes one such systems-approach scaling platform, Scientific Animations Without Borders, which effectively elicited end-user solution-adoption and decreased unit costs over increasing scales in three African countries during COVID-19. How to scale game-changing IPM insights ‘off the shelf’ and ‘into people’s hands in the field’ is also discussed.

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Manuele Tamòhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5863-7421

Plant Production and Health

Agronomy; Food Security; Pests of Plants; Plant Breeding; Plant Health; Plant Production

Integrated Pest Management; Food Security; Pests of Plants; Africa

Africa; East Africa; West Africa

Ghana; Kenya; Nigeria

Headquarters and Western Africa Hub

Current Opinion in Insect Science