Globalizing Integrated Pest Management: A Participatory Research Process
Copyright © 2005 Blackwell Publishing
Editor(s): George W. Norton, E. A. Heinrichs, Gregory C. Luther, Michael E. Irwin
Published Online: 11 JAN 2008
Print ISBN: 9780813804903
Online ISBN: 9780470290163
DOI: 10.1002/9780470290163
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As food demand has grown worldwide, agricultural production has intensified with a concomitant expansion in pesticide use. Concerns over pesticide-induced health and environmental problems, increased pest resistance to pesticides, and continued losses due to pests, have stimulated the search for alternative pest management solutions. As a result integrated pest management (IPM) approaches have been developed and applied that rely on genetic, cultural, biological and information-intensive pest management alternatives.
This book presents and critiques the participatory approaches that can be used to globalize IPM. It describes the development, deployment, and evaluation of participatory IPM. All the chapters include perspectives from both the US and developing country scientists who are on the front lines of IPM generation and diffusion. The book is unique amongst IPM books in that it stresses policy analysis, social and economic impact assessment, multidisciplinary field research and technology transfer mechanisms.