The translation has been completed by Jozsef Kiss, one of the paper’s co-authors, and his colleagues from Hungary’s Szent István University, Angéla Zanker and István Eke. The original English version first went online in July 2015 and has since been downloaded more than 9,000 times and been cited almost 50 times.

Our original story on the paper said: “The paper provides researchers, advisers and farmers with an approach for applying these legal requirements intelligently to promote local innovation while reducing reliance on pesticides and associated risks. The authors hope that interest in this approach may help garner support from European and national policy makers to set incentives promoting IPM extension work, demonstrations, research and implementation.

“Rather than searching for a universally applicable silver-bullet solution, the authors argue in favour of a broad approach that takes local specificities into account and allows all farmers to engage in IPM at any point within the continuum. Their vision stems from the realistic acceptance that pesticide-based crop protection is simple and efficient in generating spectacular short-term results. More sustainable alternative strategies will inevitably be more complex and knowledge-intensive in their initial development stage.

“The process envisioned therefore requires learning, adaptation, and tweaking of a number of farm management practices. It requires extending the challenge of crop protection to larger spatial and temporal scales, and generating more complex cropping systems better adapted to the local context. It also requires attention to non-technical aspects such as the social environment in which farmers operate, collective learning and farmers' inclination for step-wise rather than drastic changes.

“But the approach is viable, and the authors offer real-life examples of successful experiences with the types of tactics and strategies suggested.” 

For more information:

• Read the original version: Barzman M, Bàrberi P, Birch ANE, Boonekamp P, Dachbrodt-Saaydeh S, Graf B, Hommel B, Jensen JE, Kiss J, Kudsk P, Lamichhane JR, Messéan A, Moonen AC, Ratnadass A, Ricci P, Sarah JL, Sattin M. 2015. Eight principles of integrated pest management. Agronomy for Sustainable Development. DOI 10.1007/s13593-015-0327-9. It is available here.
• Read more about the review paper in our August 2015 story here.
• Download the Hungarian version: 
  Kiss_Eke_Zanker_Novenyvedelem [pdf - 2,31 MB]