Economic assessment of integrated pest management (IPM) implementation Michael J. Warren

Economic assessment of integrated pest management (IPM) implementation Michael J. WarrenBesides reducing health and the ecological risks of pest control, integrated pest management (IPM) seeks to increase farm income. Economic constraints also act as barriers to adoption of IPM practices. An understanding of how IPM affects the farm bottom line is crucial to efforts to encourage IPM. This chapter discusses methods for estimating the economic impacts of IPM, devoting special attention to advances in statistical methods to account for

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