This chapter reports the findings and analysis contained in a database of arthropod pesticide resistance and resistance management strategies. We also report resistance case analysis by chemical mode of action, top 20 most problematic arthropods, and decade analysis. We view this effort as the...

This chapter covers agricultural policy and legislation, integrated pest management (IPM) research and practice, successful IPM implementation (citrus, deciduous fruit orchards, cereal stem borers, sugarcane, cotton, potato, wheat and forestry), and constraints in IPM implementation in South Africa.

This chapter covers the development of IPM (from 1950 to the early 1970s, from 1974 to 1982, and from 1983 to the present), IPM organizational structure, IPM research and practice (pest monitoring and forecasting, cultural control, biological control and pest resistance), and examples of successful ...

This chapter discusses the principal features governing the evolution of pesticide resistance, including mutation, gene flow, initial gene frequency, fitness, genetic drift in arthropod resistance and selection intensity, while discussing spatially complex models and their role in pest management...

This chapter covers the history of integrated pest management (IPM); organizational structure of IPM; policy, research and extension in IPM; and successful IPM case studies (management of fruit flies, Plutella xylostella in crucifers, and Keiferia lycopersicella, Helicoverpa zea, H. virescens,...

This chapter describes the internet as a tool for integrated pest management (IPM) information delivery and exchange, and discusses the retrieval of IPM information on line.

This chapter discusses the major approaches to the biological control of pests in both subsistence and production agriculture. The applications of conservation (modification of environmental factors that may limit the control effectiveness of natural enemies), augmentation (direct manipulation of...

This chapter outlines the rationale and importance of policy analysis for designing rational decision making in crop protection. The first section describes the most important trends in crop protection that shape the current policy agenda and exert pressure to change the pro-pesticide bias. The...

This chapter describes the unique role that the pesticide industry plays in developing, supporting, and implementing integrated pest management (IPM) programmes, illustrating the integration of IPM considerations into the process of development of new products, formulation of IPM strategies based...

This chapter provides a brief history of integrated pest management (IPM) in Ghana; describes the principles and implementation of the farmers' field schools (FFS) methodology in promoting the adoption of IPM, as well as the issues and constraints in the implementation of FFS; mentions the IPM...