Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Regions (CABI Plant Protection Series)

By: Tsedeke Abate and Siti Ramlah Ali and Miguel A Altieri and Salvatore Bella and Dr Danny Coyne and Mieke S. Daneel and Fábio Maximiano Silva and José Gilberto De Moraes and Thomas Dubois and Odair A Fernandes and François-Régis Goebel and Shoil M. Greenberg and Devid Guastella and Abdelhaq Hanafi and Norman Kamarudin and Fred Kanampiu and Nitin Kulkarni and James Legg and George Mahuku and Zulkefli Masijan and Ramle Moslim and Urbano Nava-Camberos and Clara I. Nicholls and Amin Nikpay and Joshua Okonya and Megha N. Parajulee and Silvana V. Paula-Moraes and Alexandre Specht and Edison R. Sujii and Mohd. Basri Wahid and Vitalis Wafula Wekesa and Everlyne Wosula

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Synopsis: 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