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It's been estimated that up to 40% of food crops globally are lost to crop insect pests and diseases each year, translating to losses of over $220 billion. With the agricultural sector facing increasing pressure to phase out its use of synthetic pesticides, ecological pest management approaches, which combine developments in ecological science and advances in technology with a broad range of cultural and biological control methods, are gaining significant momentum.
Ecological management of crop insect pests: Challenges and solutions provides a detailed overview of these approaches. The book summarises the latest ecological science on understanding plant-pest interactions and then shows how this understanding can be used to design agronomic practices to disrupt pest life cycles and deter them away from cash crops. The book also reviews key challenges and opportunities in the ecological management of key insect pests of cereals, tree fruit, sweet potato and cotton.
It's been estimated that up to 40% of food crops globally are lost to crop insect pests and diseases each year, translating to losses of over $220 billion. With the agricultural sector facing increasing pressure to phase out its use of synthetic pesticides, ecological pest management approaches, which combine developments in ecological science and advances in technology with a broad range of cultural and biological control methods, are gaining significant momentum.
Ecological management of crop insect pests: Challenges and solutions provides a detailed overview of these approaches. The book summarises the latest ecological science on understanding plant-pest interactions and then shows how this understanding can be used to design agronomic practices to disrupt pest life cycles and deter them away from cash crops. The book also reviews key challenges and opportunities in the ecological management of key insect pests of cereals, tree fruit, sweet potato and cotton.
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