Crop Protection
From Agrochemistry to Agroecology
Jean-Philippe Deguine: CIRAD, France
Pierre Ferron: INRA, Centre de recherche de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Derek Russell: Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Greenwich, UK
ISBN 978-1-57808-652-8; 2009; 216 pages, hc; US $ 99.95

About the Book

This book is a synthesis and a celebration of a large body of agro-ecological research carried out on the management of the pests of cotton, one of the world’s major crops and one which has historically been a very heavy consumer of inputs of pesticides. It demonstrates how agro-ecological approaches to pest management are at last approaching the ‘mainstream’, with an increasing recognition that farmland delivers a wide range of ecosystem services (nature’s goods and services), including but certainly not solely comprising the production of food.

Contents

THE NEW ISSUES IN CROP PROTECTION
• Reducing harvest losses still further • Learning the lessons of the first Green Revolution • Advancing the concept of rational crop protection • Ensuring the maintenance of biodiversity and the sustainable functioning of agro-ecosystems

COTTON, A CASE STUDY
• Cotton and Its cultivation • Insects and weeds, major constraints to cotton production • Sensitivity to pests and damage and the compensation capacity of cotton

STEPPING OFF THE PESTICIDE TREADMILL
• Success and disillusionment, or the Need for Know - how • Towards supervised chemical control • Management of the phenomenon of resistance to pesticides • Crop protection at the crossroads

THE CONCEPT OF INTEGRATED CONTROL
• Control, suppression, eradication, management or protection? • eradication of cotton pests • Considerations for IPM in cotton cultivation

HARMONISING CONTROL METHODS: MIRAGE AND REALITY
• Optimising varietal selection and transforming living organisms • Foreseeing the development of resistance • Exploiting natural plant defences and promoting biological control

ECOLOGICAL BASES OF THE MANAGEMENT OF POPULATIONS
• ‘Think globally, act locally’ • Combining productivity and the provision of ecological services • Towards agroecological management of communities

HABITAT MANAGEMENT: THE FACTOR UNITING AGRONOMY AND ECOLOGY
• Agronomic and agroecological innovations in cotton production • Controlling outbreaks by planning of agrarian structures and managing plant biodiversity

“This very timely, challenging work should be required reading for all agriculturalists, It will be an essential acquisition for agriculture collections.”



  
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