If you have a minute or two to spare, you can catch up with short videos featuring interviews with key players in the IPMWORKS project. Recorded at the Integrated Pest Management project’s second annual meeting in Switzerland, the five ‘IPMWORKS in a minute’ videos offer an oversight into its work.
In his interview, IPMWORKS coordinator Nicolas Munier-Jolain (INRAE, France) explains: “Farmers need to see IPM in action in real farms.” Advisory services have a central role, he adds, and farmers also require economic data on yields and costs etc.
Eduardo Crisol (COEXPHAL, Spain) explains that IPM provides a reconciliation of nature and agriculture. He tells viewers: “IPM provides a profitable way of growing food that is healthy both for the consumer and the environment.”
In his interview, Per Kudsk (Aarhus University, Denmark) says: “Reducing pesticide use is a must for the future.” Pesticides will not be available forever, he explains. David Lafond (French Wine and Vine Institute) adds: “IPMWORKS allows growers to see the bigger picture.”
Calypso Picaud (Regional Chamber of Agriculture of Occitania, France) explains that the project is taking a sector-by-sector approach to encouraging IPM adoption in agriculture (orchards, greenhouse production etc.). “We focus on peer-to-peer exchanges,” she adds.
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