Some of the most successful integrated pest management (IPM) programmes are based on
the most elementary ecological theory. The limits of problem solving by empiricism are being …

Area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) focuses on the preventive management of
pest populations throughout the ecosystem. It seeks to treat all habitats of the pest …

Twenty five years after its first enunciation, IPM is recognized as one of the most robust
constructs to arise in the agricultural sciences during the second half of the twentieth …

India will face a formidable challenge of feeding the rapidly growing human population
during this century. Agricultural growth rate and productivity have to improve enormously to …

This book presents experiences and successful case studies of integrated pest management
(IPM) from developed and developing countries and from major international centres and …

Integrated pest management has emerged as an important means of managing agricultural
pests. Since the mid-1980s, the emphasis in IPM has shifted toward biologically-intensive …

Hailed as the single most important paper published on crop protection in the 20th century,
Stern et al. in 1959 formed the conceptual basis for modern integrated pest management …

Abstract Integrated Pest Management (IPM) provides an illustration of how crop protection
has (or has not) evolved over the past six decades. Throughout this period, IPM has …

This chapter discusses how the elements fit together in an integrated pest management
(IPM) program, reviews recent research on the IPM concept, and examines the extent to …

Integrated pest management (IPM) is facing both external and internal challenges. External
challenges include increasing needs to manage pests (pathogens, animal pests and weeds) …