Crop Protection Strategies For Subsistence Farmers

Miguel A Altieri (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2019
CRC Press (Verlag)
9780367011031 (ISBN)

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This volume describes strategies that rely on farmers' knowledge and participation, local resources, and alternative low-input methods as a sensitive approach to developing and implementing pest management schemes adjusted to farmers' needs and their socioeconomic and agroecological conditions.

Top-down approaches to pest management, relying on agrochemical inputs that can be scarce, expensive, ecologically toxic, or inaccessible, have repeatedly failed to solve pest problems that affect small farmers in developing countries. Crop Protection Strategies for Subsistence Farmers offers an alternative. Drawing on examples from Latin Am

Miguel A. Altieri is an associate professor and entomologist at the Division of Biological Control, University of California, Berkeley. He is also research and training adviser for the Latin American Consortium on Agroecology and Development (CLADES) based in Santiago, Chile. He teaches courses in agricultural ecology, rural development, and integrated pest management in developing countries. He also conducts international short courses in the United States and Latin America on biological control and agroecology in addition to researching methods to enhance biological control agents of pests in annual agricultural systems and orchards, and ways of improving productivity of traditional farming systems in the Third World.

Preface -- Designing and Improving Pest Management Systems for Subsistence Farmers -- Steps Toward an Alternate and Safe Pest Management System for Small Farmers in the Philippines -- A Farming Systems Approach to Insect Pest Management for Upland and Lowland Rice Farmers in Tropical Asia -- Implementation of IPM for Small-Scale Cassava Farmers -- Effects of Cassava Intercropping and Varietal Mixtures on Herbivore Load, Plant Growth, and Yields: Applications for Small Farmers in Latin America -- Human Interactions in Classical Biological Control of Cassava and Mango Mealybugs on Subsistence Farms in Tropical Africa

Erscheinungsdatum	13.05.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	149 x 229 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-13	9780367011031 / 9780367011031
Zustand	Neuware