Economic impacts of integrated pest management practices in developing countries.

Abstract Integrated pest management (IPM) is a crop protection strategy that integrates multiple practices, disciplines and concerns for economic, ecological and social wellbeing. Therefore, impact assessment of IPM can focus on a single IPM practice, a few practice(s) or on a complete IPM strategy. This chapter summarizes the results of impact assessments of IPM in developing countries. The chapter focuses on assessments of agronomic and biological practices more than host-plant resistance and on insects more than other pests. To facilitate discussion of results of the IPM impact studies, it is organized around regions, recognizing that some types of IPM impacts and impact assessments may be more prevalent in one region than another.