Biological Control in Latin America and the Caribbean

Takumasa Kondo is Senior Researcher at Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (Agrosavia), Centro de Investigación Palmira, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. He received BSc and MSc degrees from Tokyo University of Agriculture (Japan); PhD degree in Entomology from Auburn University, Alabama, U.S.A. Studies integrated pest management (IPM) of insect and mite pests of tropical fruit crops, with special interest in insects of economic importance and taxonomy of Coccomorpha. Editor in chief of the journal Revista Colombiana de Entomología and Ciencia y Tecnología Agropecuaria (2016-2021); and subject editor of several journals, including Neotropical Entomology, Revista Brasileira de Entomologia and Zookeys. Member of the Editorial Board of Fronteras de la Ciencia and Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. He has published more than 170 scientific papers, including books and book chapters.

1: Biological control in Latin America and the Caribbean: information sources, organizations, types and approaches in biological control 2: Biological control in Argentina 3: Biological control in Barbados 4: Biological control in Belize 5: Biological control in Bolivia 6: Biological control in Brazil 7: Biological control in Chile 8: Biological control in Colombia 9: Biological control in Costa Rica 10: Biological control in Cuba 11: Biological control in Dominica 12: Biological control in the Dominican Republic 13: Biological control in continental Ecuador and the Galapagos islands 14: Biological control in El Salvador 15: Biological control in French Guiana, Guadeloupe and Martinique 16: Biological control in Guatemala 17: Biological control in Guyana 18: Biological control in Haiti 19: Biological control in Honduras 20: Biological control in Jamaica 21: Biological control in Mexico 22: Biological control in Nicaragua 23: Biological control in Panama 24: Biological control in Paraguay 25: Biological control in Peru 26: Biological control in Puerto Rico 27: Biological control in the Remaining Caribbean islands 28: Biological control in Suriname 29: Biological control in Trinidad and Tobago 30: Biological control in Uruguay 31: Biological control in Venezuela 32: Achievements and future of biological control in Latin America and the Caribbean