Integrated pest management : strategies and policies for effective implementation

Efforts to implement environmentally sound pest management strategies have often been impeded by government policies and regulations that inadvertently promote the use of pest control over more sustainable practices. Such sustainable practices encompass a number of technologies and farmer-centered a...

• Main Author: Schillhorn van Veen, Tjaart W
• Corporate Author: Banco Mundial
• Format: Book
• Published: Washington, D.C. World Bank 1997
• Series: Environmentally sustainable development studies and monographs series no. 13
• Subjects: PLAGAS DE PLANTAS; CONTROL DE PLAGAS; POLITICA AGRICOLA; BANCO MUNDIAL; PARASITOS DE PLANTAS; BIRF

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations and acronyms
• Executive summary
• Introduction
• 1. Farmers and pest management
• 2. Policy issues in pest management
• 3. Integrated pest management and the public policy toolbox
• 4. Implementation strategies for integrated pest management
• 5. World Bank project portfolio, instruments, and policy options
• References
• Boxes
• Tables
• Figure.