Crop protection and sustainable agriculture

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Corporate Authors: Symposium on World Food Production by Means of Sustainable Agriculture: the Role of Crop Protection Madras, India; Centre for Research on Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development Chennai, India; Ciba Foundation
Group Author: Chadwick, Derek; Marsh, Joan
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Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
Series: Ciba Foundation symposium ; 177
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Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470514474
Item Description: Editors: Derek J. Chadwick (organizer) and Joan Marsh.
Proceedings of the Symposium on World Food Production by Means of Sustainable Agriculture: the Role of Crop Protection, held 30 Nov. to 2 Dec. 1992 in Madras, India by the Ciba Foundation in collaboration with the Centre for Research on Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development.
"A Wiley-Interscience publication."
"Ciba Foundation"--Cover.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (x, 285 p.) : ill., maps.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN: 9780470514481 (electronic bk.)
0470514485 (electronic bk.)
9780470514474
0470514477
Index Number: SB950
CLC: S433
Contents: Introduction / J.C. Zadoks -- Ecological background of food production / R. Rabbinge -- Sustainable agriculture: an explanation of a concept / M.J. Jones -- Crop protection: why and how / J.C. Zadoks -- Economics of food production / M. Upton -- Government intervention in crop protection in developing countries / H. Waibel -- Food crops versus cash crops -- Role of women in crop protection and sustainable agriculture -- Agricultural development paths and pest management: a pragmatic view of sustainability / G. Norton -- Systems of plant protection / P.S. Teng, S. Savary and I. Revilla -- Int