On trouve dans cette section les dernières nouvelles rédigées en anglais.
A new European project has been launched to ‘develop and support ecologically, economically and socially sustainable crop production via stacking and protection of functional biodiversity’. Called EcoStack, the five-year Horizon 2020 project brings together 24 partners, including a handful of ENDURE partners who are leading three of the work packages.
The James Hutton Institute, ENDURE’s Scottish partner, has introduced a web-based version of its Buntata application. The application, originally only a free Android app, makes it possible to identify potato pests and diseases in the field.
Végéphyl, France’s association for plant health formerly known as AFPP, has issued a call for communications for 2019’s COLUMA conference, an event held once every three years focusing on weed management.
The International Biocontrol Manufacturers Association (IBMA) has called on the European Union to establish a new regulatory organisation focused specifically on biocontrol in order to simplify and accelerate evaluations and approvals and thereby provide farmers with a greater range of options.
With locations as far flung as Canada, Japan and Malaysia (and, of course, Europe) and topics including agroecology, precision agriculture and biocontrol, our updated events calendar allows you to get ahead with planning your attendance at conferences and other events in 2019.
AFPP, the French association for plant protection, has a new identity just ahead of this year’s 12th International Conference on Plant Diseases. From now, AFPP will be known as Végéphyl - Association pour la santé des végétaux (association for plant health).
Six of the European Commission’s H2020 projects have joined forces in a ‘crop diversification cluster’ which will involve sharing strategies and tools with the aim of boosting the impact of their research into various ways of improving the economic and environmental sustainability of European agriculture.
INRA’s Eco-Innov unit, based near Paris, France, is seeking a scientific officer to work on the Horizon 2020 DiverIMPACTS project (Diversification through rotation, intercropping, multiple cropping, promoted with actors and value-chains towards sustainability). The three-year position will run from 1 November, 2018.
More than 100 farmers, technicians and agronomists have been given an insight into Integrated Weed Management (IWM) through on open day held at Veneto Agricoltura’s Vallevecchia experimental farm in Italy. Visitors were able to witness the farm’s ongoing experimental work as part of IWMPRAISE (Integrated Weed Management: PRActical Implementation and Solutions for Europe), Europe’s first Horizon 2020 project dedicated solely to weed management.
There is a chance to catch up with some of the case study leaders in the TRUE project (‘TRansition paths to sUstainable legume based systems in Europe’) through video interviews recorded during a meeting of the Atlantic Legume Innovation Network held earlier this year.
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