Keith L. Andrews

13 World integrated pathogen and pest management and sustainable agriculture in the developing world

Publisher Summary Arthropod pests are controlled by chemicals, cultural practices, host-plant resistance and biological control. Eleven arthropods a year will probably be added to fauna of the United States about seven becoming pests. Developing countries consume only 25% of the worlds pesticides. Total volume of pesticide use is highest on maize, cotton, soybean, and wheat. These five crops use 56% of all insecticides, fungicides and herbicides, equivalent to approximately

Pests, Peasants, and Publications: Anthropological and Entomological Views of an Integrated Pest Management Program for Small-scale Honduran Farmers

6100 million. This chapter discusses cultural control and agricultural sustainability. Cultural control is more than mechanical operations, such as tillage and burning. It involves many aspects of crop and soil management, including crop rotation, time of planting and harvesting, seed storage, fertilizer rates and cropping system diversification. Increasing demands for food can lead to new, unsustainable cultural practices. To combat pests successfully in a sustainable agriculture, it seems less risky to apply the old practices of ancient farmers. Cultural practices have one of the highest potentials for reducing yield loss because of plant diseases. They can be manipulated to minimize inoculum production, survival and dissemination, as well as infection of many pathogens and disease development, yet this area of disease control receives the least attention among the major control measures.