The Risks of Grasshoppers and Pest Management to Grassland Agroecosystems: An International Perspective on Human Well-Being and Environmental Health

Abstract

The papers presented at the workshop, which form the core of this book, were essential ingredients in the process and served as the common intellectual currency for subsequent deliberations. However, these presentations were a “means to an ends”, rather than being the purpose of the workshop. These provocative and informative thoughts provided the raw intellectual material for the primary focus of the workshop — a series of directed discussions, specifically designed to identify problems and solutions pertaining to the management of grasshoppers and locusts on grassland ecosystems. The goal of this chapter is to summarize the salient points, novel perspectives, and areas of dissension that emerged in the course of the workshop’s discussion sessions.

For every complex problem,there is a simple solution. And it is wrong.

--H.L Mencken