Agriculture plays a crucial role in development worldwide, particularly in tropical regions, where many people are self-employed subsistence farmers relying on it as their primary means of survival. Farming techniques developed for temperate zones are often unsuitable for the tropics due to differences in climate, soils, and the predominance of small-scale farming. Tropical agroecosystems are characterized by both planned and unplanned diversity. Planned diversity includes the intentional spatial and temporal arrangement of domesticated plants and animals, as well as the introduction of beneficial organisms by farmers. Unplanned diversity includes weeds, herbivores, predators, microbes, and other organisms that persist after land conversion or colonize the area from the surrounding environment.