| Titre |
African Plant Biodiversity in Pest Management |
| Auteurs |
N'DanikouSognigbé [1],
TchokponhouéDèdéou Apocalypse [2],
HoudégbéCarlos A. [3],
Achigan-DakoEnoch Gbenato [4], |
| Editeur: |
Ameenah Gurib‐Fakim |
| Edition: |
Novel Plant Bioresources. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK |
| ISBN: |
9781118460610 |
| DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118460566.ch20 |
| Resume |
Pests represent serious constraints to agricultural production, especially to subsistence farming in Africa. But synthetic pesticides have failed to properly work in the African context, due mainly to three important reasons: (i) the pest management in indigenous farming systems is a built‐in practice and does not necessitate any particular investment; (ii) limited financial capacity of smallholders to afford the costly sophisticated agricultural technologies (e.g. synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, irrigation systems); and (iii) the side effects of synthetic pesticides to human health and the environment. Together, all these have reinforced the use of natural processes, especially plants and plant products, in pest management worldwide. This chapter focuses on plant biodiversity used in crop pest management and covers invertebrate and vertebrate pests, diseases and weeds causing damage to crop production. A list of the plant species and the plant parts/formulation used together with causal agents controlled and literature sources are presented. |
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