Integrated Pest Management: Volume 2: Dissemination and Impact / Edition 1

by Rajinder Peshin, Ashok K. Dhawan

Overview

Integrated Pest Management – Dissemination and Impact, Volume 2 is a sequel to Integrated Pest Management – Innovation-DevelopmentProcess, Volume 1. The book focuses on the IPM systems in the developed countries of North America, Europe and Australia, and the developing countries of Asia, Latin America and Africa. One of the major impedimentsin the dissemination and adoption of the IPM innovation is the complexity of the technology and reaching the vast population of farmers especially in the developing countries. The IPM-innovation development process is incomplete without the diffusion and adoption of IPM methods by the end users, and through its consequences. In spite of all the efforts in the developed and developing countries, the adoption of IPM is still low with few exceptions. The book covers the underlying concepts and methodologies of the diffusion of innovation theory and the program evaluation; and reviews the progress and impact of IPM programs implemented in the industrialized, the green revolution and the subsistence agricultural systems of the world. Forty-four experts from entomology, plant pathology, environmental science, agronomy, anthropology, economics and extensioneducationfromAfrica, Asia, Australia, Europe,NorthAmerica and South America have discussed impact of IPM with an interdisciplinary perspective. Each one of the experts is an authority in his or her eld of expertise. The researchers, farmers’ education, supporting policies of the governments and market forces are the elements of the IPM innovation system to achieve wider adoption of IPM strategy in agriculture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402089893
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	03/13/2009
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	628
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

Diffusion of Innovation Theory and Integrated Pest Management.- Evaluation Research: Methodologies for Evaluation of IPM Programs.- Prool for Economic Impact Evaluation of IPM Programs.- Economic Evaluation of Integrated Pest Management Programs.- Eliciting Farmer Knowledge, Attitudes, and~Practices in the Development of Integrated Pest Management Programs for Rice in Asia.- Implementing Integrated Pest Management in Developing and Developed Countries.- Moving On: Farmer Education in Integrated Insect Pest and Disease Management.- Impact of IPM Extension for Smallholder Farmers in the Tropics.- Impact of IPM Programs in Asian Agriculture.- Evolutionary Revolution: Implementing and Disseminating IPM in Indonesia.- Principles and Methods of Rice Lepidopteroid Pest and its Enemy Management (PEM) Program in North Vietnam.- Challenges of Integrated Pest Management in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Evaluating Dissemination and Impact of IPM: Lessons from Case Studies of Potato and Sweetpotato IPM in Peru and Other Latin American Countries.- Integrated Pest Management in Europe – History, Policy, Achievements and Implementation.- IPM Programs in Commonwealth of Independent States and Russia.- Dissemination and Impact of IPM Programs in US Agriculture.- Advances with Integrated Pest Management as a Component of Sustainable Agriculture: The Case of the Australian Cotton Industry.- Impact of IPM and Transgenics in the Chinese Agriculture.- Can Transgenic Crops and IPM Be Compatible?.- Integrated Pest Management, Biofuels, and a New Green Revolution: A Case Study of the American Midwest.