Science and people: Honduran campesinos and natural pest control inventions

Jeffery Bentley, Gonzalo Rodríguez and Ana González

Agriculture and Human Values, 1994, vol. 11, issue 2, 178-182

Abstract: Farmers are experts on their natural environment and are innate experimenters. However they do not know everything. Filling in gaps of missing farmer knowledge can help them improve their experiments. The authors designed and taught a course to Honduran farmers that effectively covered a number of key points on insect ecology and biology that farmers had not understood. After receiving the course many farmers did experiments to solve pest problems without synthetic pesticides. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1994

Date: 1994
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