Tag Archives: pests

Sustainable management of transboundary pests requires holistic and inclusive solutions

Effective plant health management requires holistic approaches that focus on preventing entry, establishment, and spread of invasive pests and pathogens,...

Trends in varietal diversity of main staple crops in Asia and Africa and implications for sustainable food systems

Agricultural diversity can be beneficial for environmental health, resilience, and food production. Biodiverse cropping systems can suppress pests more...

Africa’s rice farmers lose $200 million annually to parasitic weeds

AfricaRice News Release Striga aspera on rice in Cote d’Ivoire. (Photo: AfricaRice) An international team of researchers representing the Africa...

Managing pests with nature

Pests should be critically reassessed and proven guilty before insecticide use is contemplated. This was my conclusion in 1994 with the late Professor...

Plight of the rice birds

Rice is life for nearly 3.5 billion people around the globe, especially in Asia, but, before people came to dominate the Asian landscape, many organisms...

Fear and loathing drive needless insecticide use

A wasp larvae is a parasite that attacks cutworm larva. (Photo: Friends Of The Rice Farmer: Helpful Insects, Spiders, And Pathogens) Rice farmers, like...

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