Pest management challenges for smallholder vegetable farmers in Zimbabwe

By T. Sibanda, H. Dobson, J. Cooper, W. Manyangarirwa, W. Chiimba. 2000

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Defence mechanisms of Brassicaceae: implications for plant-insect interactions and potential for integrated pest management. A review (2010, background): “A huge number of insect pests attack brassicas, and several insect specialists have Brassica species as preferred host plants (Lamb, 1989; Sekhon and Åhman, 1993; Sibanda et al., 2000).”
Smallholder vegetable farmers in Northern Tanzania: Pesticides use practices, perceptions, cost and health effects (2007, background): “In Zimbabwe, although small-scale vegetable farmers use some cultural control methods and occasionally botanical pesticides, pest control is predominantly by the use of synthetic pesticides (Sibanda et al., 2000).”
Recent emergence and worldwide spread of the red tomato spider mite, Tetranychus evansi: genetic variation and multiple cryptic invasions (2010, background): “In Africa T. evansi has become one of the most important dry season pests of tomatoes, causing yield losses of up to 90% in South-East Africa (Sibanda et al. 2000) and West Africa (Duverney and Ngueye-Ndiaye 2005).”