Meet the Crop Protectors
It takes a lot of different people to protect our food from pests when it’s growing in the field, harvested, stored and transported to market. All these people have one thing in common: they are helping to make Integrated Pest Management happen. Click on the photos below to meet the Crop Protectors who play an important role in feeding the world.


Jake Leguee
Grain, Oilseed and Special Crop farmer, Saskatchewan, Canada


Paul Temple
Beef & Arable Farmer, Yorkshire, UK


Eduardo Chagas Ferreira da Silva
Agronomist and plant pathologist, USA


Ruramiso Mashumba
Farmer and advocate, Zimbabwe


Phan Anh Tu
Government trainer, Vietnam


Me Thi Le
Rice Farmer, Vietnam


Hung Van Tu
Rice Farmer, Vietnam


My Trang
Third-generation rice Farmer, Vietnam


Jake Freestone
Farmer, United Kingdom


Prof. Dr. Ulisses Antoniassi
Professor at Sao Paulo State University, Brazil


Josh Dillman
Soil and Water Conservation Engineer, Canada


Dr. Sampa Das
Plant Scientist, India


Cecilia Mejia Dominguez
Farmer, Honduras


Emiliano Dominguez
Farmer, Honduras


Cecilia Pokuaa
Farmer, Ghana


Lawrence Owusu
Farmer, Ghana


Bill Crabtree
Farmer, consultant and sustainable agriculture student, Australia


Harley Combs
Agronomist, U.S


Ben Gleason
Program Manager, Iowa Corn Growers Association, U.S


Agnes Quaye
Farmer, Ghana


Mohamed Matinur Rahman
Farmer, Bangladesh


Bella Galhos
Farmer, East Timor


Ramachandra Murthy
Project Manager, India


Abdu Rahim
Farmer and spray service provider, Ghana


Celia Medina
Associate Professor, University of Los Banos, Philippines


Chirene Jelbert
Technical Area Manager, Bayer CropScience, South Africa


Florian Weihrauch
Biologist, Hop Research Institute , Germany


Jude Grosser
Professor in Breeding and Genetics, University of Florida, U.S


Arzu Sezer
Mycologist, Hazelnut Research Institute, Turkey


Sipasi Olalekan Ayodele
Farmer and entrepreneur, Nigeria


Pavitar Pal Singh Pangli
Farmer and educator, India


Pierre Kamere Munyura
Farmer and innovator, Rwanda


Richard Fordyce
Farmer, United States


Arie Sulistyani
Farmer and microbiologist, Indonesia