Agricultural Principles

Economics of Integrated Pest Management Adoption

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a set of practices that focus on treating specific crop pests with a holistic approach. This strategy has been successfully applied in various crops, farm […]

Soil biology test – Pitfall traps

Written by Deborah de Groot, revised by Yanniek Schoonhoven and Clara Bosch Pitfall traps The pitfall trap is a useful method to monitor soil biology in your fields. Having healthy […]

Agricultural Insurance – A Financial Tool for Farmers to Offset and Manage Risk

Agricultural insurance focuses mainly on 4 key lines of agricultural production: crops, forestry, livestock/bloodstock (high value animals such as thoroughbreds), and aquaculture (also known as fish farming). It can also […]

Insurance – A Financial Tool to Offset and Manage Risk

Insurance is a financial risk transfer mechanism based on the principle of an Insurer (or risk carrier, to whom the Insured transfers part or the totality of a risk – […]

Risk Management Approaches in Agriculture

Farmers may reduce the impact of a hypothetical future sudden, accidental, and unforeseen shock by systematically identifying, analyzing, and controlling production, operational, market/price, financial, technology, regulatory, infrastructure, and human or […]

Agriculture and Risk

Introduction Around 10.000 years ago man started progressively transitioning from widespread hunter-gathering nomadism to fixed settlements in many regions of the world1. Controlling where, how, and when to secure regular […]

Repellent plants, traps and natural enemies handling for crop pest management

Repellent and/or insecticidal plants, traps, and natural enemies handling are some very easy and efficient ways to control important crop pests, especially for smallholders and family farmers. It is known […]

What is plantation agriculture?

What is plantation agriculture? Plantation Agriculture is the form of Agriculture in which a single person or company owns a big farm and grows a single crop (most often corn, […]

What is Biological Control and how to be used in agriculture

This extension post aims to disseminate simple and safe strategies through technical support information that allow the family farmer and/or smallholders to increase the effectiveness of Natural Biological Control in their production […]

Increasing the preparedness against new plant health threats for the EU with EFSA’s Horizon Scanning

Global trade is increasingly leading to the introduction of non-native species in novel geographic ranges (Jenkins et al., 1996). These invaders often pose a serious threat to agriculture, with the […]