Sustainable Approaches for Food Pest Management
A special issue of Insects (ISSN 2075-4450).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2024 | Viewed by 221
Special Issue Editors
Interests: stored products integrated management; edible insects
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In dynamically stable urban or agricultural ecosystems, all organisms, whether harmful or not, may play a crucial role in ecological webs. Globalization and climate change are giving rise to new threats, such as the invasion of new species or unregulated increases in existing pest populations, which can disrupt this dynamic stability. Regular monitoring, the surveillance of insect populations, and real-time local prevention are essential, eliminating the need for later corrective drastic pest control actions. Developing predictive and risk assessment models based on knowledge of organism biology and ecology, along with crafting solutions to maintain pest populations below damaging levels, may be viable approaches. Integrated methods, recycling industrial emissions, and manipulating environmental conditions could serve as sustainable tools in the future, all while considering the natural resilience of ecosystems.
Dr. Maria Otília Carvalho
Dr. Vaclav Stejskal
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- stored product pests
- pest monitoring
- risk assessment
- integrated pest management
- alternatives to insecticides
- novel insecticides
- hermetic storage
- robotic precision
- intelligent machining challenges
- sustainability
