Large-scale monitoring programmes often make inferences about insect abundance based on count data collected using some probability-based sampling technique.
July 24, 2024
Researchers and regulatory agencies often make statistical inferences from insect count data using modelling approaches that assume homogeneous variance.
July 24, 2024
Recent studies show that soil animal count data are characterized by the presence of excess zeros and overdispersion, which violate the assumptions of standard statistical tests.
July 24, 2024
Analysis of variance (ANOVA) has been a fundamental method used for analysis of abundance and incidence data.
July 24, 2024
The impacts of climate change on resource-poor farmers are especially severe and include increased challenges with food security and food safety.
July 24, 2024
J’he Global Environment Facility (GEF) with implementation support from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) funded the project GFL/2711·01-4345 focusing on “Conservation of Gramineae and Associated Arthropods for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Africa”.
July 23, 2024
The lepidopteron stemborer (Chilo partellus) and parasitic Striga weed (Striga hermonthica) caused major yield losses in subsistence sorghum production in the Eastern Amhara Region, Ethiopia.
July 22, 2024
Under the International Plant Protection Convention, a pest is defined as any species, strain, or biotype of plant, animal, or pathogenic agent injurious to plants or plant products (ISPM, 2006).
July 22, 2024
In many developing countries, rural populations are heavily dependent on agriculture as well as different social services for their livelihoods. Yet access to adequate knowledge, improved technologies, financial services and other relevant social services remains a critical issue.
July 22, 2024
Scattered and isolated trees are a common feature of traditional agroforestry systems, urban landscapes and many other natural and human-modified landscapes.