ABSTRACT
In a period of political and economic turmoil in Africa, when per capita food production is sinking and production and population trends are generally unfavorable, maintaining or developing sustainable agriculture should and often has become the highest priority for policy makers and researchers alike. A biological control project was initiated by Food and Agriculture Organization at the Plant Protection Services in Cacaveli, Togo and Porto-Novo, Benin, both sponsored by the German "Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit". In Africa, most cassava fields and their neighborhoods have abundant weeds that provide alternate food sources. Small scale farmers in Africa are politically often mute. This point to the importance of the press to feed back information about them to people in the north, who through their parliaments shape the activities of the donor agencies. Any biological control project in Africa needs a special relationship with the Inter-African Phytosanitary Council, headquartered in Yaound, Cameroon.
