Pest management and food production: looking to the future
In their comprehensive paper, Montague Yudelman, Annu Ratta, and David Nygaard examine the key issues with regard to pest management and food production over the coming decades. They draw attention to the lack of adequate information on the magnitude and impact of pest losses; with out such informat...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
1998
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| description | In their comprehensive paper, Montague Yudelman, Annu Ratta, and David Nygaard examine the key issues with regard to pest management and food production over the coming decades. They draw attention to the lack of adequate information on the magnitude and impact of pest losses; with out such information, policy makers are handicapped when devising strategies for meeting food needs. The authors address both chemical and nonchemical approaches to pest management, high lighting the importance of biotechnology. There is growing public sentiment against biotechnology but little appreciation as yet of its contributions to alleviating hunger by, among other things, controlling pest losses. The authors also adress the important subject of the roles of different actors in pest management, most notably the private sector. A world with out pests is unrealistic and probably undesirable. However, a world with severely reduced losses of food production to pests is achievable by 2020. This paper shows us how. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1615392025-01-10T06:45:07Z Pest management and food production: looking to the future Yudelman, Montague Ratta, Annu Nygaard, David F. food crops diseases pests pest control integrated control In their comprehensive paper, Montague Yudelman, Annu Ratta, and David Nygaard examine the key issues with regard to pest management and food production over the coming decades. They draw attention to the lack of adequate information on the magnitude and impact of pest losses; with out such information, policy makers are handicapped when devising strategies for meeting food needs. The authors address both chemical and nonchemical approaches to pest management, high lighting the importance of biotechnology. There is growing public sentiment against biotechnology but little appreciation as yet of its contributions to alleviating hunger by, among other things, controlling pest losses. The authors also adress the important subject of the roles of different actors in pest management, most notably the private sector. A world with out pests is unrealistic and probably undesirable. However, a world with severely reduced losses of food production to pests is achievable by 2020. This paper shows us how. 1998 2024-11-21T09:56:21Z 2024-11-21T09:56:21Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161539 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Yudelman, Montague; Ratta, Annu; Nygaard, David F. 1998. Pest management and food production;looking to the future. 2020 Policy Brief. 52. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161539 |
| spellingShingle | food crops diseases pests pest control integrated control Yudelman, Montague Ratta, Annu Nygaard, David F. Pest management and food production: looking to the future |
| title | Pest management and food production: looking to the future |
| title_full | Pest management and food production: looking to the future |
| title_fullStr | Pest management and food production: looking to the future |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pest management and food production: looking to the future |
| title_short | Pest management and food production: looking to the future |
| title_sort | pest management and food production looking to the future |
| topic | food crops diseases pests pest control integrated control |
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