Principles of Integrated Pest Management: A Southern African Perspective

Integrated pest management (IPM), is a sustainable crop protection strategy to ensure pre-harvest control of invertebrate (mainly insect) pests, whilst seeking to minimise negative environment or ecosystem impacts, and improve human health. Presents a comprehensive, synthetic record of IPM for southern Africa, documenting successes and failures. Integrated pest management (IPM) is a sustainable crop protection strategy to ensure agricultural productivity and preharvest control of invertebrate (mainly insect) pests, while seeking to minimize negative environmental, human health or ecosystem impacts. This book: - Represents all aspects of IPM in southern Africa, from historical context, the underlying principles and basic knowledge foundation required, and how these are integrated into decision making and current best practice. - Highlights recent research, field experience and selected case studies. - Addresses themes such as ecological aspects of IPM, basic IPM principles, the importance of monitoring, cultural and physical control methods, interference methods, the sterile insect technique, biological control, resistant plants, chemical control, insecticide resistance management, genetic toolkits for IPM, and ecosystem services provided by insects in agroecosystems and biosecurity. The book will be especially useful for academics and practitioners in the field of agricultural sustainability, food security, applied entomology, pest management and crop protection, undergraduate or postgraduate students of applied entomology or agriculture, researchers engaged in developing crop-protection solutions, growers, policy makers and regulators. Integrated pest management (IPM), is a sustainable crop protection strategy to ensure pre-harvest control of invertebrate (mainly insect) pests, whilst seeking to minimise negative environment or ecosystem impacts, and improve human health.This book represents all aspects of IPM in southern Africa, from designing projects to implementing decisions, and including research, field experience and selected case studies. This book will address themes such as basic IPM principles, cultural and physical control methods, behavioural control methods, biological control, insecticide resistance management, ecosystem services provided by insects in agro-ecosystems and biosecurity. The book is especially relevant to those working in areas of agricultural sustainability, food security, applied entomology, pest management and crop protection.