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• Reminder: October date for field veg meeting
  

  The next meeting of the IOBC Working Group dedicated to 'Integrated Protection of Field Vegetables' will be on October 13 to 16, 2019, at Stratford upon Avon in the UK. The organisers are keen to receive offers of presentations or posters.

• Don’t miss ENDURE News!
  

  If you are not a subscriber to ENDURE News, the twice yearly newsletter from ENDURE, you can now download it below. June’s newsletter includes more than 20 news items written over the past six months. You can download it below:

• Can we grow without PPPs?
  

  The European Parliament’s Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) has published an In-depth Analysis report and staged an accompanying workshop addressing the topic ‘Farming without plant protection products: Can we grow without using herbicides, fungicides and insecticides?’

• Using agroecology in weed control
  

  Examples of European research efforts to use agroecological principles in support of Integrated Weed Management (IWM) have been shared in a recent blog post on the Agricology website. Agricology is a community bringing farmers and researchers together to share knowledge in pursuit of “practical sustainable farming regardless of labels”.

• France’s €30m research programme underway
  

  France has officially launched its €30 million research programme designed to deliver high-performance, more sustainable agriculture that uses pesticides only as a last resort. It is seeking to produce agricultural systems based on prevention (prophylaxis) and agroecology, and will also address changes in value chains.

• Online resources to avoid glyphosate use
  

  An online resource centre has been created in France to support farmers seeking to avoid glyphosate use. The French government announced last year that glyphosate would no longer be an option for most uses within three years and within five years it would no longer be used for any purpose.

• SusCrop: First newsletter available
  

  The first newsletter from SusCrop is now available. SusCrop is an ERA-Net Cofund Action under H2020, which “aims to strengthen the European Research Area (ERA) in the field of Sustainable Crop Production through enhanced cooperation and coordination of different national and regional research programmes”.

• How are the neighbours implementing IPM?
  

  ENDURE’s Danish partners, SEGES and Aarhus University, have completed a report detailing the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) implementation efforts made in seven neighbouring countries with broadly similar growing conditions. In addition to the original Danish version, the report has now been translated into English and a French version is available from France’s IPM portal, EcophytoPIC.

• Systems Summer School: Grab the last few places!
  

  The last few places are available for next month's International Summer School, which is being organised by ENDURE and its partners. Running from June 23 to 28, in Volterra, Italy, it will address ‘Methodological Approaches to System Experiments’ and is designed for researchers, engineers and PhD students involved in the design, monitoring and exploitation of systems experiments. Feel free to share the flyer (download below)..

• European Conference on Crop Diversification
  

  The programme for the European Conference on Crop Diversification, which will run from September 18 through to September 21, 2019, in Budapest, Hungary, is now available. It is being organised by DiverIMPACTS (Diversification through Rotation, Intercropping, Multiple Cropping, Promoted with Actors and value-Chains towards Sustainability) and other projects targeting crop diversification.