Both agricultural and non-agricultural environments, such as the home, garden, and office, can use the IPM strategy. IPM makes use of all viable pest control methods, including but not limited to the prudent application of pesticides. Contrarily, the production of organic food uses many of the same principles as IPM but restricts the use of pesticides to those derived from natural sources rather than manmade chemicals. It is vitally necessary to make a major switch to a comprehensive system approach for crop protection to address the growing economic and environmental costs of combating agricultural pests. The search for "silver bullet" items to stop pest outbreaks has traditionally dominated pest management tactics. Nevertheless, controlling undesirable factors in ecosystems is comparable to doing so in other systems, such as the human body and social structures. Because these externalities are quickly "neutralised" by countermoves inside the system, experience in these disciplines substantiates the idea that therapeutic interventions into any system are only beneficial for short-term relief. Only by restructuring and maintaining these systems in ways that maximise the variety of "built-in" preventative strengths, with treatment strategies strictly acting as backups to these, can long-term resolutions be reached.