A strategic research agenda for Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Europe has been prepared by Coordinated Integrated Pest Management (C-IPM), the European Research Area Network (ERA-Net) seeking to align national research programmes on IPM in Europe.
The C-IPM website reports that the strategic research agenda provides recommendations regarding future European and national IPM research challenges and on how to enhance the implementation of IPM for sustainable crop production. The document is intended for researchers, policy makers and all stakeholders involved in plant protection.
It is based on the results of previous initiatives from the Standing Committee of Agricultural Research Collaborative Working Group on IPM (SCAR CWG). C-IPM has mapped national research needs and priorities and held workshops on national research programmes and infrastructures. The results of these efforts have been used to elaborate and complement the SCAR report in order to prepare the C-IPM strategic research agenda.
The overall objective of the strategic research agenda is to describe short, medium and long-term priorities for IPM research. The aim is to identify gaps and enable enhanced implementation of IPM in Europe. The short-term agenda seeks to create a forum for exchange and identification of IPM research and development priorities, connect existing initiatives and coordinate joint transnational research calls.
The strategic research agenda will lay the groundwork for the implementation of joint transnational research. In this context, the agenda has the following specific objectives:
Four key strategies to overcome major challenges have been identified:
The most important topics, identified by the C-IPM partners, have been categorised in four core themes. Each core theme includes a number of topics that reflect the current priorities and future research needs of the partners and consequently represent short to mid-term IPM priorities. The four core themes are:
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