Local agro-ecological knowledge and its relationship to farmers' pest management decision making in rural Honduras

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 307-321

  Wyckhuys, Kris A G ^a,b   O'Neil, Robert J ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation biological control; Ethno entomology; Fall armyworm; Farmer knowledge; Honduras; IPM training Spodoptera frugiperda; Subsistence maize production

Indexed keywords

LEPIDOPTERA; SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33845655349     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-007-9068-y     Document Type: Article

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