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• SMaCH projects focus on impact
  

  INRA, France’s National Institute for Agricultural Research, has unveiled the projects which will be launched as a result of this year’s SMaCH (Sustainable Management of Crop Health) call. The call was titled Impact, with the aim of encouraging projects which stimulate the impact of research results by encouraging their transfer to end users.

• Rothamsted sets out five-year vision
  

  ENDURE partner Rothamsted Research, the world’s oldest agricultural science research institute, has set out its ambitious vision for the next five years at a time of what it describes as unprecedented international uncertainty and diverse social, economic and environmental challenges.

• EUCLID reveals demonstration sites
  

  The EUCLID project (Europe-China Lever for Integrated Pest Management Demonstration) is now entering its second year, with work on testing new products and technologies getting underway at its range of demonstration sites this spring and summer.

• Experts produce IPM brassica brochure
  

  A new brochure concentrating on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in brassica crops and oilseed rape has been produced by experts from the European Innovation Partnership’s Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability (EIP-AGRI) focus group on these crops.

• Aarhus University seeks plant pathologist
  

  Aarhus University, one of ENDURE’s Danish partners, is seeking a post-doc researcher in plant pathology to join its tenure track programme. This programme offers highly qualified candidates a researcher position for six years with the prospect of performance-based advancement to a tenured senior researcher post.

• Three-pronged approach for UK black-grass
  

  UK experts have recommended a three-pronged approach for the sustainable management of black-grass, an increasingly herbicide-resistant weed which is a particular problem in autumn-sown cereal crops.

• AgriSpin to share innovation insights
  

  The closing conference of the AgriSpin project (Space for Innovation in Agriculture) takes place on July 3, 2017, on the Greek island of Crete. The project, coordinated by SEGES, one of ENDURE’s Danish partners, has been seeking to establish what makes innovation processes move forward and what blocks them.

• A dozen new events added to listing
  

  A dozen new events have recently been added to our events calendar, including the five-day Future IPM 3.0, which runs from October 16 to 20 in Riva del Garda, Italy. Alongside the IOBC/WPRS General Assembly and plenary sessions, IPM Future 3.0 will feature a selection of workshops on ‘hot topics’ such as induced resistance in plants, novel tools in viticulture and preserving soil quality.

• Conference to focus on crop losses
  

  Two of ENDURE’s French partners are joining forces with the AgMIP and MacSur international networks to host an International Conference on Crop Losses caused by diseases, pests and weeds this autumn. An initiative from INRA, working in close partnership with CIRAD, the event will run from October 16 to 18 in Paris.

• News from SMaCH: System design and more
  

  Two fresh newsletters from INRA's Sustainable Management of Crop Health (SMaCH) metaprogramme are now available (in French), one focusing on the design of sustainable systems and agro-ecological transitions, and one examining the management of crop health at the landscape and territorial scales.