In this book, H. David Thurston catalogs and reviews valuable pest management practices that are in danger of being lost in the modernization process. Thurston evaluates the sustainability, labor requirements, and external inputs needed for these diverse systems and their management.

Most scientists and many of the world's farmers have abandoned traditional farming practices and systems in an effort to increase production and to improve the efficiency of land and labor use. The resulting "modern" systems largely ignore many of the sustainable pest management practices that have evolved among farmers over centuries. In this book