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• COLUMA 2019: Focus on weed control
  

  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.

• IBMA calls for regulatory shake-up
  

  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.

• Updated events calendar
  

  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.

• New ID for AFPP and conference details
  

  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).

• UPDATED! Links to other projects and organisations
  

  In the table below you can find a selection of European projects which you may find interesting. While the majority of these projects are not 'ENDURE-endorsed', we hope that by bringing together more than 50 European projects in one easy to use table we are helping the international Integrated Pest Management community to gain an insight into European agricultural research.

• Diversification cluster to boost impact
  

  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 seeks scientific officer for DiverIMPACTS
  

  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.

• Gaining an insight into IWM experiments
  

  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.

• TRUE interviews now online
  

  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.

• DiverIMPACTS: Conference and interview
  

  A major European conference on crop diversification is scheduled for September 18 to 21, 2019. Organised by DiverIMPACTS (Diversification through Rotation, Intercropping, Multiple Cropping, Promoted with Actors and value-Chains towards Sustainability) and other projects targeting crop diversification, it will be held in Budapest, Hungary.