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A special issue entitled ‘Pesticide use and risk reduction with IPM’ of the international journal Crop Protection has recently been published. The special issue is the fruit of the research collaboration conducted within the European Union’s PURE project (Pesticide Use and-risk Reduction in European farming systems with Integrated Pest Management), coordinated by Françoise Lescourret (pictured right), a well-known scientist affiliated to INRA, one of ENDURE’s leading partners.
Researchers from EuroBlight, Europe’s potato late blight network, have reported on their ongoing monitoring of the pathogen, noting a marked local expansion of two recently emerged clones in 2016.
For the second time in three years, ENDURE communication team leader Philippe Delval has hit the roads of France to conduct a series of special days dedicated to sharing the latest knowledge on alternative crop protection techniques with those responsible for providing the training required to obtain the obligatory certification needed to handle pesticides in the country.
France has launched a €1.5 million call for projects to improve the emergence of neonicotinoid-free agriculture and explore innovative perspectives for crop production methods which avoid the use of these insecticides.
While negotiations have only just begun on the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union, thoughts are turning to how British producers will protect their crops in the future and how the country’s plant protection product (PPP) regulations will change in response to Brexit.
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.
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.
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.
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, 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.
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