Description
Book SynopsisThis 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
Table of Contents1: Introduction PART I: OVERVIEW OF PEST MANAGEMENT IN THE TROPICS 2: Agroecological Foundations for Pest Management in the Tropics: Learning from Traditional Farmers 3: Options and Challenges for Pest Control in Intensive Cropping Systems in Tropical Regions 4: Biological Pest Control in the Tropics PART II: INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT APPROACHES FOR TROPICAL CROPS 5: Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Cereal Crops 6: Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Food Legumes 7: Integrated Pest Management of Root and Tuber Crops in the Tropics 8: Integrated Pest Management in Sugarcane Cropping Systems 9: Integrated Pest Management in Cotton 10: Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Vegetable Crops 11: Integrated Pest Management and Good Agricultural Practice Recommendations in Greenhouse Crops 12: Integrated Pest Management in Banana and Plantain 13: Integrated Pest Management in Citrus 14: Integrated Pest Management in Oil Palm Plantations in Malaysia 15: Integrated Pest Management in Tea, Cocoa and Coffee 16: Integrated Insect Pest Management in Tropical Forestry
