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• Policy Briefs: Insights for IPM implementation
  

  ENDURE is determined to play a positive role in aiding European Member States which must ‘establish or support the establishment of necessary conditions for the implementation’ of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) as part of Europe’s long-term plans for the sustainable use of pesticides. Marco Barzman and Isabelle Haynes, as part of the support ENDURE offers policy makers, have produced ENDURE Policy Briefs, a range of briefing documents based on ENDURE deliverables designed to provide insights into the non-technical conditions necessary for the successful implementation of IPM.

• Now online: ENDURE IPM Training Guide
  

  Training in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) will be of crucial importance as European nations grapple with the complexities of ensuring IPM becomes a field reality in the coming years. To help the process, ENDURE’s training experts have produced an IPM Training Guide, which can now be downloaded from this site. It includes ready-to-use teaching and discussion modules, enabling advisers and IPM teachers to pick and choose from more than 60 different elements to create their own IPM learning sessions.

• Biocontrol leaflets now available
  

  ENDURE’s research team dedicated to the exploitation of natural biological processes has now published three leaflets exploring biocontrol in selected crops: grapevine, tomato and maize. Each leaflet examines the crop's place in European agriculture and the major threats to production, before examining the biocontrol options available.

• Deploying disease resistance in crop cultivars
  

  Intelligent use of disease resistance in crop cultivars can significantly contribute to enhanced resistance durability and make entire growing systems more stable, explain ENDURE experts in their new leaflet, Recommendations for the deployment of disease resistance in crop cultivars.

• Nine new leaflets in Italian
  

  Nine new guides in the From Science to Field series produced by ENDURE’s case study teams are now available in Italian. They include leaflets focusing on potato, maize, maize based cropping systems and tomato.

• New guide: Tackling Tuta absoluta
  

  The South American tomato leafminer (Tuta absoluta) is a recently arrived pest in Europe which cannot be ignored. Capable of destroying tomato and other Solanaceae crops, it demands effective control using a wide range of measures, which are outlined in a recently published leaflet in ENDURE’s Training in Integrated Pest Management series.

• Biocontrol work features in New Ag
  

  The work of ENDURE’s team dedicated to biological controls features in the latest edition of New Ag International, the journal dedicated to high-tech agriculture. New Ag carries a nine-page feature examining the market for microbials, those microorganisms such as beneficial fungi, bacteria, viruses, nematodes and yeasts, which represent around one-third of the global biocontrol market.

• IPM for tomatoes: Download the book
  

  A 46-page book written by ENDURE’s tomato case study team and published by ENDURE’s Spanish partner, the Universitat de Lleida in Catalonia, can now be downloaded free of charge from the Catalonian library of research documents. The book offers an in depth and wider ranging version of the From Science to Field leaflet produced by the team, and examines the tools and constraints affecting the implementation of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programmes in European greehouse tomato production areas.

• Available now: European Crop Protection in 2030
  

  After almost three years of interviews, panel discussions, reflection and, of course, hard work, ENDURE’s foresight study, European Crop Protection in 2030, has been completed and can be downloaded here. Over the course of 80 pages, it establishes the current status of crop protection in European agriculture before examining five contrasting scenarios designed to help stakeholders in their decision making and in reaching shared and coordinated goals.

• Conference: Book now to avoid disappointment
  

  With more than 260 people already registered for ENDURE’s second international conference, Integrated Pest Management in Europe - The ENDURE Network of Excellence shares the fruits of four years’ research with the crop protection community, those wanting to attend should book now to avoid disappointment.