Integrated Pest Management in the Tropics: Current Status and Future Prospects

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Annalee N. Mengech (The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology) Kailash N. Saxena (The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology)

Integrated Pest Management in the Tropics

Current Status and Future Prospects

Annalee N. Mengech (The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology), Kailash N. Saxena (The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology), Hiremagalur N.B. Gopalan (The United Nations Environment Programme) , Hiremagalur Gopalan

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John Wiley & Sons Inc
25 October 1995

Pest control; Tropical agriculture: practice & techniques

The concept of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) was developed as an alternative to chemical pesticides following the widespread realization or their horrifying and damaging effects on environment, human, animal and plant health, which were vividly portrayed in Rachel Carson s book Silent Spring. The IPM approach involves the use of different tactics in compatible combinations to keep pest populations below the levels at which they cause economics injury. Thus. the IPM approach minimizes the use of chemical pesticides and avoids their harmful effects. The development and implementation of IPM has been increasing in North America with successful results. However, its role in tropical agriculture is less well known. For this reason, the United Nations Environment Programine (UNEP), and the International Center for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) undertook a global review of IPM to assess the impact of related activities in tropical regions of Asia. Africa and South America. This volume assesses the current status and future prospects for IPM in these regions, it provide a unique overview of the efforts made to develop and implement IPM for the pests of livestock and agroforestry in selected countries in the tropics (including India and China), as well as a survey of IPM strategies on a crop-by-crop basis for each continent. The book gives an honest appraisal of both the successes and failures of past IPM programmes and provides new paradigms and directions that IPM must develop, if it is to be adopted by farmers and governments on a scale necessary to change their current reliance on chemical pestioldes

Edited by: Annalee N. Mengech (The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology), Kailash N. Saxena (The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology), Hiremagalur N.B. Gopalan (The United Nations Environment Programme), Hiremagalur Gopalan
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 425g
ISBN: 9780471960768
ISBN 10: 0471960764
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 25 October 1995
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Practice of Integrated Pest Management in Tropical and Sub-TropicalAfrica: An Overview of Two Decades (1970-1990) (O. Zethner). Practice of IPM in South and Southeast Asia (A. Raheja). Review of IPM in South America (C. Campanhola, et al.). Executive Summary and Recommendations. Index.

Annalee N. Mengech and Kailash N. Saxena are the authors of Integrated Pest Management in the Tropics: Current Status and Future Prospects, published by Wiley.