Pest management science often disregards farming system complexities

Raw data from a systematic quantitative literature review of publications covering pest management science in 65 developing countries over 2010-2020. Indexed (English) publications are extracted from global bibliographic databases and cover countries in the following subregions: Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. ## Description of the data The data file contains the identity of target biota and crops, research type, core IPM themes, relative coverage of 15 different farming system variables and degree of inclusion of (plant, animal) companion biota.