MANEJO AGROECOLÓGICO DE PLAGAS Y ENFERMEDADES EN LA AGRICULTURA URBANA. ESTUDIO DE CASO CIUDAD DE LA HABANA, CUBA

Urban Farm DB summary

A participatory research study conducted in 2003–2005 across municipalities and representative production systems of Havana's urban and peri-urban agriculture — where synthetic pesticides are prohibited in "organopónico" and other orchard systems — characterized farmers' pest management practices. Farmers were found to have adopted agroecological innovations including managing floristic diversity, crop rotations and associations, corn and other plant barriers, repellent plants, peripheral live fences, natural-enemy reservoirs, biopesticide applications, and botanical preparations.