Communicating carabids: Engaging farmers to encourage uptake of integrated pest management.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Natural enemy pest control is becoming more desirable as restrictions increase on pesticide use. Carabid beetles are proven agents of natural-enemy pest control (NPC), controlling pests and weeds in crop areas. Agro-ecological measures can be effective for boosting carabid abundance and associated NPC, but the benefits of specific interventions to production are seldom communicated to farmers. We explore pathways to improved NPC by engaging farmers and increasing knowledge about farm management practices (FMPs) beneficial to carabids using engagement materials. We used a questionnaire to measure awareness, beliefs and attitudes to carabids and analysed these within a framework of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), relative to a control group.

Results

We found

SUBMITTER: Jowett K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9322692 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature