Tag Archives: pest management

Ecological engineering: An effective package for transitioning from conventional to regenerative agriculture

Ecological engineering is a novel approach to pest management that considers cultural practices rooted in environmental knowledge and nature-based solutions....

Sparrows and their role in predator-prey interaction in rice ecology

World Sparrow Day (20 March) celebrates one of the most abundant birds in the world that was once considered a menace to agriculture. However, house sparrows...

Integrated pest management: good intentions, hard realities. A review

Integrated Pest Management (IPM)is the model of crop protection that has prevailed since its creation in the late 1950s. IPM has, by virtue of its broad...

Pest surveillance system for food security: A case study in the Philippines

Ensuring food security amidst the increasing population requires a pest surveillance system for staple food. Regularly collected pest surveillance data...

Small mammal communities, associated damage to rice, and damage prevention in smallholder rice storage facilities in Sri Lanka

In the first such study in Sri Lanka, we identified the main rodent and shrew species and the extent of post-harvest damage caused in rice storage facilities...

Host resistance, tolerance, and vulnerability determine levels of field damage from a complex of Asian rice stem borers

Rice yield losses due to stem borers and the choice by farmers to predominantly use insecticides to control stem borers demonstrate a continuing need to...

A resistant variety and a biological fungicide show promise in controlling rice blast in Cambodia

A resistant variety and a fungus used as a treatment for blast disease offer Cambodian farmers a safer disease management option. ...

Alien invasion!

The rice eel, an invasive alien species, has become a slippery problem for many farmers in Northern and Central Philippines where most of the country’s...

IPM (No, not integrated pesticide management!)

Even as we continue to promote farmer education on IPM principles and knowledge, it is important to start paying attention to the amount of investment...

The power of policy

In the late 1960s, newly developed, high-yielding rice varieties launched the Asian Green Revolution, which rapidly pushed up yields and allowed rice production to keep pace with population growth. In the Philippines, as in many other countries, widespread use of pesticides expanded in step with the new varieties. This was largely due to concerns that crop losses from...

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