Researchers stressed the importance of coordinating Integrated Pest Management research during a special session at October’s Ecophyto colloquium in Paris, France. The session, dedicated to the importance and added value of coordinating IPM-related research, attracted around 200 people, including scientists, policy makers and farmers, who listened to three talks and participated in a round table discussion
Antoine Messéan, coordinator of ENDURE and the C-IPM ERA-Net, gave an overview of the latter. He highlighted how this networking of funders is trying to overcome the fragmentation of IPM research among EU Member States and associated countries by pooling resources and working together on common priorities. He reported that coordination of IPM research and development is ongoing both through the networking of funders (C-IPM) and through the networking of researchers and advisers (ENDURE).
Two other researchers closely involved with ENDURE presented the results of ongoing European research collaboration. Lise Nistrup Joergensen (pictured right), from Aarhus University, Denmark, discussed the European networks of scientists and other specialists working on fungal diseases in wheat and potato late blight. She emphasised how this networking, launched during the early years of ENDURE, has led to the development of two important platforms - EuroWheat and EuroBlight - significantly facilitating IPM research at the European level.
Silke Dachbrodt-Saaydeh,from JKI, Germany, presented the ongoing networking of long-term IPM field trials across Europe and highlighted how such an approach is important to assess the effectiveness of IPM under different pedo-climatic conditions. In particular, she demonstrated the added value of sharing and coordinating experiments at the EU level with examples from ENDURE, PURE and long-term meta-analysis.
This article is a shorter version of the one which first appeared on the C-IPM website. You can read the complete article here.
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