Community-based and environmentally safe pest management / edited by R.K. Saini and P.T. Haskell. - Nairobi, Kenya : ICIPE Science Press, [1993] - vi, 199 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

CONTENTS

Community-based pest management-the importance of small farmer sector

Biological control: an environmentally safe alternative to use of chemical pesticides

The role of models in IPM for resource-poor farmers

Chemical signals in plant vs insect interaction

Effective and sustainable Eco technology Development with a specific example of tsetse control

Considerations for success of community-based tsetse control

Community-based control of livestock ticks in Nigeria

Crop losses and economic injury level in relation to IPM of the stem Borer Chilo partellus in Maize in Kenya

Role of community knowledge in Developing IPM in Africa

Biological control and the rural community

Development of human resources for Pest management in the tropics

Gender constraints upon receiving and disseminating agricultural information: The role of women

The current status and role of networking in pest management in Africa

Products versus techniques in community-based pest management

Pesticides in Kenya

Recommendations of the conference

list of participants

Includes bibliographical references.

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Agricultural pests--Integrated control--Congresses.--Africa
Insect pests--Integrated control--Congresses.--Africa
Agricultural pests--Integrated control--Citizen participation--Congresses.--Africa
Insect pests--Integrated control--Citizen participation--Congresses.--Africa
Farms, Small--Congresses.--Africa

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