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If you missed ENDURE’s 2010 International Conference, IPM in Europe - The ENDURE Network of Excellence shares the fruits of four years’ research with the crop protection community, or were there and want to refresh your memory, all the presentations can now be consulted online and video footage can be enjoyed on the INRA website.
Two new leaflets in the From Science to Field series from ENDURE’s winter crops based cropping systems case study (WCCS) are now available, detailing advanced and innovative systems for three regions of France and exploring a range of options for the UK.
Twenty five leaflets have been translated into French and added to the website. They include 19 leaflets in the From Science to Field series (De la Théorie à la Pratique) from ENDURE's case study teams, four in the Training in Integrated Pest Management series (Formation en Lutte Intégrée) and three in the Social Science Insights series (Considérations Sociales liées à la Protection des Cultures) .
ENDURE is determined to play a positive role in aiding European Member States which must ‘establish or support the establishment of necessary conditions for the implementation’ of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) as part of Europe’s long-term plans for the sustainable use of pesticides. Marco Barzman and Isabelle Haynes, as part of the support ENDURE offers policy makers, have produced ENDURE Policy Briefs, a range of briefing documents based on ENDURE deliverables designed to provide insights into the non-technical conditions necessary for the successful implementation of IPM.
Training in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) will be of crucial importance as European nations grapple with the complexities of ensuring IPM becomes a field reality in the coming years. To help the process, ENDURE’s training experts have produced an IPM Training Guide, which can now be downloaded from this site. It includes ready-to-use teaching and discussion modules, enabling advisers and IPM teachers to pick and choose from more than 60 different elements to create their own IPM learning sessions.
ENDURE’s research team dedicated to the exploitation of natural biological processes has now published three leaflets exploring biocontrol in selected crops: grapevine, tomato and maize. Each leaflet examines the crop's place in European agriculture and the major threats to production, before examining the biocontrol options available.
Intelligent use of disease resistance in crop cultivars can significantly contribute to enhanced resistance durability and make entire growing systems more stable, explain ENDURE experts in their new leaflet, Recommendations for the deployment of disease resistance in crop cultivars.
Nine new guides in the From Science to Field series produced by ENDURE’s case study teams are now available in Italian. They include leaflets focusing on potato, maize, maize based cropping systems and tomato.
The South American tomato leafminer (Tuta absoluta) is a recently arrived pest in Europe which cannot be ignored. Capable of destroying tomato and other Solanaceae crops, it demands effective control using a wide range of measures, which are outlined in a recently published leaflet in ENDURE’s Training in Integrated Pest Management series.
The work of ENDURE’s team dedicated to biological controls features in the latest edition of New Ag International, the journal dedicated to high-tech agriculture. New Ag carries a nine-page feature examining the market for microbials, those microorganisms such as beneficial fungi, bacteria, viruses, nematodes and yeasts, which represent around one-third of the global biocontrol market.
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