Crop Protection Strategies For Subsistence Farmers (Westview Studies in Insect Biology)

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 Content: Cover Half Title Series Page Title Copyright Contents Preface 1 Designing and Improving Pest Management Systems for Subsistence Farmers 2 Steps Toward an Alternate and Safe Pest Management System for Small Farmers in the Philippines 3 A Farming Systems Approach to Insect Pest Management for Upland and Lowland Rice Farmers in Tropical Asia 4 Implementation of IPM for Small-Scale Cassava Farmers 5 Effects of Cassava Intercropping and Varietal Mixtures on Herbivore Load, Plant Growth, and Yields: Applications for Small Farmers in Latin America 6 Human Interactions in Classical Biological Control of Cassava and Mango Mealybugs on Subsistence Farms in Tropical AfricaAbout the Book and Editor About the Contributors Index 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.