The 5th International Conference on Biopesticides: Stakeholders’ Perspective (ICOB-V 2009) is being organized from 26 April to 30 April 2009 by TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute), New Delhi, India, in collaboration with Society for Promotion and Innovation of Biopesticides (SPIB), at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. This conference is in continuation of a series of international conferences held previously in Thailand (1996), China (1998), Malaysia (2002), and Thailand (2005), promoted by the University of California, Riverside, USA, and Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. The conference would bring to the fore the fundamental and applied research on various aspects of biopesticides in pest and disease management in agriculture, forestry, public health, and the urban landscape. The conference will provide a common platform to the stakeholders from India and abroad to interact and exchange knowledge, share experiences of success stories in biopesticides, and discuss constraints, which will mutually help in evolving sustainable perspective plan for value chain network for uptake of biopesticides.

The organizing committee takes this opportunity to invite you and your colleagues to participate in the conference and deliberate on various themes.