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An international seminar on Integrated Pest Management and National Action Plans is being organised by the Nordic Association of Agricultural Scientists in Tallinn, Estonia, on November 7th and 8th. With the deadline for the completion of National Action Plans set for December 2012, alongside the mainstreaming of IPM principles by 2014, these topics are generating much attention and it is not too late to register.
Two European-level meetings addressing current challenges in crop protection took place in Brussels on June 19 and 20, 2012, providing the opportunity to take a hard look at pesticide use and Integrated Pest Management (IPM). The diverse audiences delved deep into history, took broad sweeps at the current situation, and had conflicting views on what the future directions ought to be. ENDURE participant Marco Barzman reports on the diverse and at times opposing views.
While European Commission funding of ENDURE may have ended in 2010, nearly all partners decided to continue in this important European network of crop protection research, university and extension groups. And continuation is extremely important as the ambition of the Directive 2009/128/EC demands challenging research to revive and rejuvenate the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) concept from decades ago, writes Piet Boonekamp, one of ENDURE’s task leaders.
In the third of our country profiles we examine France, where the ambitious challenge has been set of halving pesticide use nationally over the course of 10 years. In this article, Philippe Delval, an ENDURE participant working at ACTA, the ‘Network for Innovative Research in Agriculture’, and Marco Barzman, ENDURE’s Scientific Officer, examine Ecophyto 2018, France’s National Action Plan.
Researchers from across the globe seeking to control two invasive pests causing major damage to tomato and fruit crops are set to benefit from a new project, proposed by ENDURE and funded under the European Commission’s FP7 International Research Staff Exchange programme.
Following April’s ENDURE Network of Advisers workshop in Paris, France, VfL, the Danish Agricultural Knowledge Centre, has created an online forum to enable farm advisers to share knowledge, results and experiences to tackle pest control challenges and improve their Integrated Pest Management practices.
The list of ENDURE papers accepted for publication in scientific journals has been updated. This year's papers cover topics such as multi-criteria assessment tools, landscape ecology, consumer willingness to pay for IPM, virulence dynamics of pathogens and deployment of host resistance, and biofumigation.
ENDURE is conducting its fourth Summer School October 7-12, 2012 in Volterra, Italy. The five-day course will focus on ‘Agroecological engineering for crop protection’ and will bring together up to 20 PhD-level students. To ensure diversity among participating students, ENDURE is offering three grants covering local expenses (food, lodging and participation in the course) – travel costs are not covered. Read on if you wish to participate…
To reconcile environmental goals with efficient crop protection, research needs to broaden its scope along spatial, temporal and organisational dimensions. That is the challenge that INRA’s new meta-programme Sustainable Management of Crop Health (SMaCH) is taking on. Olivier Le Gall (pictured right), who heads SMaCH, seeks to develop research on crop health that is more international and cuts across natural and human sciences.
In its quest toward reducing environmental risks associated with pesticide use by 25% by 2020, Germany has developed a new assessment tool, the “necessary minimum”. The concept, which defines a level of pesticide use above which further use would be unnecessary, is not as simple or simplistic as it seems.
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