Globalizing Integrated Pest Management: A Participatory Research Process

Globalizing Integrated Pest Management: A Participatory Research Process Book Description

"Successful generation and cost-effective dissemination of IPM requires a participatory approach that recognizes the comparative advantage of various participants (farmers, national and international scientists, extension workers, policy makers, input suppliers) and the importance of the environment in its many dimensions (natural resource, social, cultural, economic, and institutional)."
(Chapter 1)

"There is sometimes a debate about the value of research conducted by scientists versus farmers.... the reality is that an effective IPM research program often involves farmers, scientists from national experiment stations, university scientists, the international scientific community, public extension workers, extension workers at NGOs, and others. It is not a question of farmer-led research versus experiment station research. The question is how to optimally involve all the players who might contribute to a successful IPM program. Each player has an appropriate role and the successful program recognizes how to sequence components and interactions among them. Scientists will achieve little success in solving pest management problems without involving farmers, and farmers, even working closely with extension workers and other technically trained people, will make limited progress without input from upstream scientists."
(Chapter 2)
As food demand has grown worldwide, agricultural production has intensified with a concomitant expansion in pesticide use. Concerns over pesticide-induced health and environmental problems, increased pest resistance to pesticides, and continued losses due to pests, have stimulated the search for alternative pest management solutions. As a result integrated pest management (IPM) approaches have been developed and applied that rely on genetic, cultural, biological and information-intensive pest management alternatives.

This book presents and critiques the participatory approaches that can be used to globalize IPM. It 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. The book is unique amongst IPM books in that it stresses policy analysis, social and economic impact assessment, multidisciplinary field research and technology transfer mechanisms.

George W Norton has contributed to Globalizing Integrated Pest Management: A Participatory Research Process as an author. Norton is affiliated with Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

E A Heinrichs has contributed to Globalizing Integrated Pest Management: A Participatory Research Process as an author. George W. Norton is professor of agricultural and applied economics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he focuses on research evaluation, integrated pest management, and economic development. He has served as Technical Chair of the IPM CRSP for the past 10 years, and been involved in long-term IPM research in the United States, Asia and Latin America. The IPM CRSP is a large international IPM program funded by USAID with roughly 80 U.S. and international scientists involved. He has published numerous articles and reports on economic evaluation of IPM programs and has

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