Bautze, David; Dietemann, Lauren and Singh, Akanksha
(2022)
Ecological approach to pest and disease management in the Tropics.
FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture
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Summary
This factsheet introduces the integrated ecological approach to organic pest and disease management, how to best prevent problems and direct control methods. The information is based on long-term experiments and on-farm research conducted in the scope of three projects across different countries in Africa, as well as Bolivia and India. Further products in the series, e.g., posters, videos and more, are linked in the ‘Further information’ section on the last page of this factsheet.
| EPrint Type: | Teaching resource |
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| What problem does the tool address?: | Pests and diseases can severely reduce crop yields. However, the use of synthetic agrochemicals to control them threatens human and environmental health, by polluting our soils and water systems, causing diseases, and killing beneficial organisms. Management of pests and diseases in organic farming requires not only renouncing synthetic agrochemicals, but including integrated approaches (e.g., companion cropping, push-pull technology, crop rotations, biorationals, i.e., botanicals, etc.). |
| What solution does the tool offer?: | Organic systems that mimic the standard approach of pest and disease control, only replacing synthetic agrochemicals with biorationals, will face many challenges. Preventing a problem from arising, rather than treating a problem, is the ecological organic approach to pest and disease management. |
| Country: | Switzerland |
| Type of Practice Tool: | Leaflets & guidelines, Video, Other type of tool |
| Other Type: | PowerPoint |
| Keywords: | Abacus, FiBL6518802 |
| Subjects: | Crop husbandry > Crop health, quality, protection "Organics" in general > Countries and regions > Africa |
| Research affiliation: | Switzerland > FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Switzerland > International > Regions > Africa |
| Deposited By: | Dietemann, Lauren |
| ID Code: | 44393 |
| Deposited On: | 14 Sep 2022 12:39 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Jan 2023 08:22 |
| Document Language: | English |
| Status: | Published |
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