Jeffery W. Bentley, Gonzalo Rodriguez, Ana Gonzalez. 1994. Science and People: Honduran campesinos and natural pest control inventions. Agriculture and Human Values 11 (2-3) 178–182.Abstract

Farmers are experts on their natural environment and are innate experimenters. However, they do not know everything. Filling in gaps of missing farmer knowledge can help them improve their experiments. The authors designed and taught a course to Honduran farmers that effectively covered a number of key points on insect ecology and biology that farmers had not understood. After receiving the course many farmers did experiments to solve pest problems without synthetic pesticides.

Keywords

Natural Environment, Veterinary Medicine, Pest Control, Agricultural Economics, Control Invention, Honduras, farmers’ field experimentws