Insect pest control in agriculture. Changing scale: from field to landscape

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https://doi.org/10.19182/agritrop/00039

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insect control, pests of plants, control methods, agrobiodiversity, landscape, fields, biodiversity, biodiversity conservation, agroecology, agroecosystems, agricultural research, interdisciplinary research, cropping systems, diversification, uses

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Over the last 20 years, insect pest pressure on agriculture has been increasing. This growing pressure is explained by the expansion of monocropping and the intensification of farming practices, which are altering landscapes and reducing biodiversity. It is reinforced by climate change, which causes tropical insects to migrate to temperate zones and modifies insect biology. Controlling this growing pressure while reducing or ending pesticide application implies no longer acting solely at field level, but also at landscape level. This scale change makes it possible to use biodiversity to regulate pests, and also to coordinate stakeholder practices, as shown by attempts to control sugarcane and cotton plant pests. However, it requires detailed knowledge of the interactions between pest populations and their natural enemies, and also between landscape components, biodiversity and human activities, which opens up new avenues for transdisciplinary research.

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François-Régis Goebel

François-Régis Goebel, has a PhD in the field of applied entomology (Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse). He specialises in plant protection and integrated pest management. He has been with CIRAD since 1988, and has conducted the majority of his research on sugarcane while posted in Réunion, South Africa and Australia, and during assignments in Indonesia and several African countries. He is based in Montpellier in the Annual Cropping Systems research unit (http://ur-sca.cirad.fr/) as a deputy director of this unit.

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Author's publications

Goebel F.-R., Sallam N., Samson P., Chandler K., 2010. Quantifying spatial movement of the greyback cane beetle in sugarcane landscape: data available and research needs. Proceedings of the Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists 32: 71-83. ISBN 978-1-61738-827-9. http://toc.proceedings.com/08999webtoc.pdf

Goebel F.-R., Sallam N., 2011. New pest threats for sugarcane in the new bioeconomy and how to manage them. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 3 (1-2): 81-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2010.12.005

Goebel F.-R., Tabone E., Do Thi Khanh H., Roux E., Marquier M., Frandon J., 2010. Biocontrol of Chilo sacchariphagus (Lepidoptera: crambidae) a key pest of sugarcane: lessons from the past and future prospects. Sugar Cane International 28: 128-132. http://www.fdgdon974.fr/IMG/pdf/SCI_may-jun2010_goebel.pdf

Other references

Bianchi F.J., Booij C.J., Tscharntke T., 2006. Sustainable Pest Regulation in agricultural landscapes: a review on landscape composition, biodiversity and natural pest control. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Biology 273: 1715-1727. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.3530

Hunter M.D., 2002. Landscape structure, habitat fragmentation, and the ecology of insects. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 4: 159–166. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1461-9563.2002.00152.x

Thies C., Steffan-Dewenter I., Tscharntke T., 2003. Effect of landscape context on herbivory and parasitism at different spatial scales. Oïkos 101: 18–25. https://doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12567.x

Tscharntke T., Brandl R., 2004. Plant-insect interactions in fragmented landscapes. Annual Review of Entomology 49: 405-430. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ento.49.061802.123339

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Goebel, F.-R. (2013). Insect pest control in agriculture. Changing scale: from field to landscape. Perspective, (24), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.19182/agritrop/00039