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By how much could we expect to cut pesticide inputs in maize? It’s a question which has been tackled by ENDURE’s team examining the potential use of innovative technologies and the answer, in short, is by a huge amount: 100% in the case of seed treatments, up to 85% in the case of insecticides and 90% in the case of herbicides.
A new European research project on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) was launched in March 2011. PURE (Pesticide Use-and-risk Reduction in European farming systems with IPM) takes research work initiated in ENDURE one step further. PURE focuses on the systems approach started by ENDURE, examining the role of larger spatial (cropping system) and temporal (multi-year) scales in crop protection.
Manipulating the landscape to influence functional biodiversity is a new option in the construction of an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategy. The idea is to eventually enhance natural controls (ecosystem services) by acting at the landscape level for the benefit of agricultural crops.
The sixth leaflet in ENDURE’s Training in Integrated Pest Management series is now available. The leaflet focuses on the participatory training method developed by the Organic Rice Production in Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ORPESA) project in southern France.
More than 70 researchers benefitted from ENDURE’s mobility programme during the network’s four-year funding by the European Commission, and mobility will continue to be a focus now that ENDURE has become a self-funding European Research Group.
ENDURE’s Network of Advisers (ENA) has published its second newsletter, bringing advisers up to date with all the resources ENDURE can offer. It includes a report on November's ENDURE conference, Integrated Pest Management in Europe, and feedback from ENA members who attended.
Four new ENDURE leaflets in French are now available: three focus on biocontrol options in major crops while the fourth is the French version of the fifth leaflet in the Training in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) series, which examines options for controlling the South American tomato leafminer, a new invasive pest affecting tomato crops in Europe.
ENDURE researchers have developed a new approach for the fast and cost-effective development of biological control products. Called SelectBioControl, the approach encompasses all the successive steps crucial to the development, production, registration and marketing of such products.
The Network of Excellence may be finished but ENDURE continues to thrive in its new form: a European Research Group supported by all 14 research, extension and education partners in the original project. It is being coordinated by INRA in France.
For a different take on ENDURE’s International Conference, the UK’s Farmers Weekly and its online sister publication, Farmers Weekly Interactive, have a series of articles on the event and the work of ENDURE. And news of the event also features in the latest edition of IPMnet News, the electronic newsletter which reaches thousands of IPM specialists around the world.
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