The European Parliament’s Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) has published an In-depth Analysis report and staged an accompanying workshop addressing the topic ‘Farming without plant protection products: Can we grow without using herbicides, fungicides and insecticides?’
Written by Wannes Keulemans, Dany Bylemans and Barbara De Coninck, from the Department of Biosystems at Belgium’s Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), it addresses the challenge of providing food security and healthy food for 11 billion people by the end of the century.
The authors examine the evolution in plant protection products (PPP), risk assessment, the contribution of PPPs to higher yields, the relationship between people and PPPs, the possibility of reducing PPP use to boost biodiversity and reduce environmental impacts, and the possible contributions of novel technologies, genetically modified organisms and resistant cultivars, and smart farming.
Published in February, the report was followed by a workshop the following month. From this workshop, the authors conclude:
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