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Spatial Decision Support for Coffee Pests and Diseases in Costa Rican Agroforestry Systems

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Online Location
http://agritrop.cirad.fr/554034/
Publication date
05/08/2009
Number of Pages
13
Language:
English
Type of Publication:
Working Papers & Briefs
Studies
Focus Region:
Latin America & the Caribbean
Focus Topic:
Health & Diseases
Type of Risk:
Biological & environmental
Type of Risk Managment Option:
Risk coping
Commodity:
Crops
Author
Jaques Avelino, Peter Laderach, Laure Collet, Miguel Collet, Christian Cilas
Organization
CIRAD, CIAT, ICAFE

The objective of this presentation is to show how better decisions and disease risk-adapted agroforestry practices, for coffee growing regions, can be derived, based on spatial decision support tools and ground data. Justifications Patchiness in the distribution of plant pests and diseases due to spatial heterogeneity of the environment and the agronomic management. Environmental information can be combined with spatial analyses to determine potential pests and diseases distribution, make better decisions and improve the risk management.

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