Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Regions (eBook)

Giuseppe E Massimino Cocuzza, Carmelo Rapisarda (Herausgeber)

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2017
CABI (Verlag)
978-1-78064-801-9 (ISBN)

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This book provides up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of the research and application of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in tropical regions. The first section explores the agro-ecological framework that represents the foundations of IPM, in addition to emerging technologies in chemical and biological methods that are core to pest control in tropical crops. The second section follows a crop-based approach and provides details of current IPM applications in the main tropical food crops (such as cereals, legumes, root and tuber crops, sugarcane, vegetables, banana and plantain, citrus, oil palm, tea, cocoa and coffee) and also fibre crops (such as cotton) and tropical forests. Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Regions: Explores the techniques aimed at controlling pests in agro-ecosystems sustainably while reducing secondary effects on the environment and on plant, animal and human health Contextualizes IPM within our current knowledge of climate change and the global movement of organisms Covers integrated strategies to contains pests in major tropical food crops, fibre crops and trees Discusses options and challenges for pest control in tropical agriculture

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.12.2017
• Co-Autor: Tsedeke Abate, Shoil M. Greenberg, Devid Guastella, Abdelhaq Hanafi, Norman Kamarudin, Fred Kanampiu, Nitin Kulkarni, James Legg, George Mahuku, Zulkefli Masijan, Jose Gilberto De Moraes, Siti Ramlah A. Ali, Ramle Moslim, Urbano Nava-Camberos, Clara I. Nicholls, Amin Nikpay, Joshua Okonya, Megha N. Parajulee, Silvana V. Paula-Moraes, Fabio Maximiano DE ANDRADE SILVA, Alexandre Specht, Edison R. Sujii, Miguel A Altieri, Mohd. Basri Wahid, Vitalis Wafula Wekesa, Everlyne Wosula, Salvatore Bella, Danny Coyne, Mieke S. Daneel, Thomas DuBois, Odair A Fernandes, Francois-Regis Goebel
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• ISBN-10: 1-78064-801-4 / 1780648014
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78064-801-9 / 9781780648019