TY - ECHAP
KW - agroecology
KW - indigenous pest control
KW - ethnoentomology
AU - Miguel A. Altieri
AU - William Overal
AU - Darrell Posey
AB - <p>An analysis of the scattered research conducted on indigenous knowledge about pest ecology and methods of pest control used in traditional agriculture suggested the following facts:</p><ul><li>Traditional farmers are able to identify the main pest species affecting their crops and have local names for most of them</li><li>In traditional agriculture the concept &quot;pest&quot; is relative, since many organisms considered pests may also be important resources for food, medicines, rituals, etc.</li><li>Most farmers have some level of knowledge about the biology, life cycles, and food preferences of most pest species.</li><li>Most farmers are aware of the conditions that favor and/or discourage pest incidence.</li><li>Most farmers accept a level of presence of pests and therefore adjust to a certain degree of crop loss.</li><li>Traditional farmers utilize a variety of cultural, physical/mechanical and biological methods to directly control pests, or indirectly rely on the built-in pest control mechanisms inherent to their complex cropping systems.</li></ul><p>The ensemble of traditional crop protection practices used by indigenous farmers throughout the developing world represents a rich resource for modern workers seeking to create pest management systems that are well adapted to the agroecological, cultural and socioeconomic circumstances facing peasants.</p>
AN - 89-00397
BT - Ethnobiology : implications and applications : proceedings of the First International Congress of Ethnobiology, Belém, 1988
CN - GN476.7.I25 1988
CY - Belém, Brazil
DA - 01/1990
DB - Pennsylvania State University Libraries
LA - English
N2 - <p>An analysis of the scattered research conducted on indigenous knowledge about pest ecology and methods of pest control used in traditional agriculture suggested the following facts:</p><ul><li>Traditional farmers are able to identify the main pest species affecting their crops and have local names for most of them</li><li>In traditional agriculture the concept &quot;pest&quot; is relative, since many organisms considered pests may also be important resources for food, medicines, rituals, etc.</li><li>Most farmers have some level of knowledge about the biology, life cycles, and food preferences of most pest species.</li><li>Most farmers are aware of the conditions that favor and/or discourage pest incidence.</li><li>Most farmers accept a level of presence of pests and therefore adjust to a certain degree of crop loss.</li><li>Traditional farmers utilize a variety of cultural, physical/mechanical and biological methods to directly control pests, or indirectly rely on the built-in pest control mechanisms inherent to their complex cropping systems.</li></ul><p>The ensemble of traditional crop protection practices used by indigenous farmers throughout the developing world represents a rich resource for modern workers seeking to create pest management systems that are well adapted to the agroecological, cultural and socioeconomic circumstances facing peasants.</p>
NV - 2
PB - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
PP - Belém, Brazil
PY - 1990
SE - Part B; Chapter 1
SP - 131
EP - 143
T2 - Ethnobiology : implications and applications : proceedings of the First International Congress of Ethnobiology, Belém, 1988
TI - The ecology and management of insect pests in traditional agroecosystems
UR - https://www.worldcat.org/title/1025826490
VL - 1
ER -