Researcher
Thierry Brévault is a specialist in insect ecology applied to integrated pest management. He is a researcher at CIRAD (French Agricultural Research Centre for Sustainable Development) within the research unit "Agroecology and sustainable intensification of annual crops". He is currently based at the BIOPASS laboratory (Population biology and ecology of animal communities of Sahelo-Sudanese ecosystems, Centre de recherche de Bel-Air, Dakar, Senegal). He has extensive expertise on the relationships between agricultural practices, land use, biodiversity and ecological processes involved in natural pest control in agroecosystems. Such knowledge is a prerequisite to assist the design of ecologically-intensive farming systems, especially to sustainably manage invasive pests in Africa such as the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, the tomato leaf miner, Tuta absoluta, or the Oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis. He is a member of the scientific committee of the French High Council of Biotechnology (HCB) and coordinator of the West African platform for research and education for the design of agroecological farming systems (DIVECOSYS).
Email : thierry.brevault@cirad.fr
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