Globalizing Integrated Pest Management presents and critiques the participatory approaches that can be used to globalize IPM.

Globalizing Integrated Pest Management describes the development, deployment, and evaluation of participatory IPM.

All the chapters include perspectives from both the US and developing country scientists who are on the front lines of IPM generation and diffusion.

Globalizing Integrated Pest Management is unique amongst IPM books in that it stresses policy analysis, social and economic impact assessment, multidisciplinary field research and technology transfer mechanisms.

Contents:

1. The need for cost-effective design and diffusion of IPM
2. The participatory integrated pest management (PIPM) process
3. Developing IPM packages in Asia
4. Developing IPM packages in Africa
5. Developing IPM packages in Latin America
6. Developing IPM packages in the Caribbean
7. Developing IPM packages in Eastern Europe : participatory IPM research in Albanian Olives
8. IPM transfer and adoption
9. Developments and innovations in farmer field schools and the training of trainers
10. Pesticide and IPM policy analysis
11. The role of institutionalized pre-shipment inspection programs in achieving sustainability in non-traditional agricultural export markets
12. Evaluating socio-economic impacts of IPM
13. Evaluating the health and environmental impacts of IPM
14. Gender and IPM
15. Lessons learned

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