Integrated Pest Management in the Tropics: Current Status and Future Prospects

This volume assesses the current status and future prospects for IPM in these regions. It provides a unique overview of the efforts made to develop and implement IPM for the pests of livestock and agroforestry in selected countries in the tropics (including India and China), as well as a survey of IPM strategies on a crop-by-crop basis for each continent. The book gives an honest appraisal of both the successes and failures of past IPM programmes and provides new paradigms and directions that IPM must develop, if ii is to be adopted by farmers and governments on a scale necessary to change their current reliance on chemical pesticides.