Crop Protection Strategies For Subsistence Farmers
1st Edition
Published on 13. March 2019
208 pages
978-0-429-70306-5 (ISBN)
Description
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
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
17,12 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-429-70306-5 (9780429703065)
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Miguel A. Altieri
Crop Protection Strategies For Subsistence Farmers
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Person
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.
Content
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
