Self-Organising Agro-Ecosystems

This book proposes methods of reducing, even eliminating, the use of insecticides and fungicides from our crops and environment. It seems that this can best be achieved by self-organisation within agro-ecosystems, which can easily be brought about by amateur plant breeders using the methods presented. This book is intended primarily for universities wishing to initiate student clubs for plant breeding, but it may also be of interest to any scientist involved with crop parasites. A proper understanding of this topic requires an acquaintance with the general systems theory, modern complexity theory and, most of all, various concepts of the ecosystem and the pathosystem.