Biopesticides : pest management and regulation

Biological controls that utilize natural predation, parasitism or other natural mechanisms, is an environmentally friendly alternative to chemical pesticides. This book addresses the challenges of insufficient information and imperfectly understood regulatory processes in using biopesticides

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bailey, Alastair (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire : CABI , c2010
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Pests of crops
  • 3. Pest management with biopesticides
  • 4. The economics of making the switch in technologies
  • 5. The regulation of biopesticides: an international analysis
  • 6. Policy networks, change and innovation
  • 7. Retail governance