Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Regions
$283.28
- Hardcover
360 pages
- Release Date
11 December 2017
Summary
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
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780648002 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780648006 |
| Author: | Carmelo Rapisarda, Giuseppe Massimino Cocuzza, Tsedeke Abate, Siti Ramlah A. Ali, Miguel A. Altieri, Salvatore Bella, Dr Danny Coyne, Mieke Daneel, Fabio Silva, Jose Gilberto De Moraes |
| Publisher: | CABI Publishing |
| Imprint: | CABI Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 360 |
| Release Date: | 11 December 2017 |
| Weight: | 1.06kg |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 172mm x 244mm |
Carmelo Rapisarda
Tsedeke Abate has more than four decades of experience as a leader and researcher at international, regional, and national levels. He is the founder and leader of HGV (Homegrown Vision), an independent think-tank on African agriculture. He led the Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa project and CIMMYT’s Maize Seed Systems in Africa between April 2012 and July 2017. Between February 2008 and March 2012, Tsedeke led the Tropical Legumes II project of ICRISAT which was implemented across Africa and Southern Asia. He was Director General of the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, where he introduced transformational changes, between December 2003 and March 2007. Tsedeke has widely published on African and Southern Asia agriculture.
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