Mission Statement:
International Parthenium Weed Network (IPaWN)
An International network of expert volunteers devoted to creating awareness about the parthenium weed threat, and to sharing information on how to reduce its adverse impacts upon agro-ecosystems, the environment and human health.
Creation: IPaWN is an initiative of the Tropical and Sub-tropical Weed Research Unit (TSWRU), The University of Queensland, Australia. In 2009 and with research of involvement in three continents, the TSWRU started to develop information packages on the weed and to send it out to more than 20 countries that have or are at threat of having the weed. After an over-whelming positive response to this circulation of information the value of setting up an international network became obvious. There are now more than 200 IPaWN members from 30 different countries.
Mission: IPaWN’s mission is to coordinate and disseminate information regarding the global invasion of parthenium weed, its diverse impacts on agro-ecosystems, the environment and human health, and its management.
Goal: Creation of an online community to support international collaboration on the parthenium weed problem and its management.
Objectives:
- To facilitate the exchange of information about parthenium weed and its management.
- To link different regional working groups, institutions and other stakeholders with an interest in parthenium weed and its management.
- To document new out breaks of the weed and to recommend strategies to reduce further spared in those regions.
- To identify topics deserving of new research and to provide access to on-line resources such as identification kits, best management practice documents etc.
Meetings: Meetings of IPaWN are likely to be timetabled to coincide with major international conferences such as those of the International Weed Science Society, the Asian Pacific Weed Science Society and the International Parthenium Weed Management Conferences.
International eNewsletter: IPaWN produces a biannual newsletter named International parthenium weed newsletter. Contributions for the 5 issue in January 2012 are now invited.
Contacts:
| Dr Steve Adkins Chair, IPaWN The University of Queensland Australia s.adkins@uq.edu.au |
Dr Asad Shabbir Network Co-ordinator, IPaWN Institute of Agricultural Sciences University of the Punjab Lahore 54590 PAKISTAN asad.iags@pu.edu.pk |
Parthenium Weed Newsletters
- Parthenium weed ID Kit (2.0 Mb)
- July 2015 (3.3 Mb)
- July 2014 (2.7 Mb)
- January 2014 (2.0 Mb)
- July 2013 (2.0 Mb)
- January 2013 (2.0 Mb)
- July 2012 (2.0 Mb)
- January 2012 (4.6 Mb)
- July 2011 (1.5 Mb)
- January 2011 (1.7 Mb)
- July 2010 (1.5 Mb)
- January 2010 (0.6 Mb)
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