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• FACCE-JPI SusCrop Joint call now open
  

  The 2022 joint FACCE-JPI SusCrop call on agrobiodiversity is now open. As reported earlier this month, the purpose is: “Improving the capacity of the European Research Area to provide practical and policy-relevant knowledge on how agrobiodiversity can improve resilience of agroecosystems, especially those most at risk, reinvigorate farming practices to increase ecological connectivity and improve biodiversity at landscape level, and to monitor and identify the opportunities and obstacles to diversification.”

• Registration open for SusCrop seminar
  

  SusCrop, the ERA-Net Cofund Action seeking to strengthen the European Research Area (ERA) in the field of sustainable crop production, is to hold a seminar at Aarhus University from May 10 to 12. Registration for the event, the ‘European seminar on research and innovation in sustainable crop production and workshop on enhancement and optimisation of innovation’, is now open.

• 2022 update: Glyphosate report available in French
  

  Despite being the most widely used herbicide in the world and the subject of controversy regarding its direct and indirect effects, little information is available on the quantitative aspects of glyphosate, such as its use in European countries. This has now been addressed with the publication of an ENDURE report, 'A survey on the uses of glyphosate in European countries'. As of March 2022, this report is also available in French.

• FACCEJPI and SusCrop join forces for March call
  

  The Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCEJPI) and the SusCrop – ERA-NET Cofund on Sustainable Crop Production are joining forces to launch a call for research projects addressing agrobiodiversity.

• Latest ENDURE News now online
  

  The latest edition of ENDURE News is now available online. For those who do not subscribe to the newsletter, it offers a handy summary of all the news added to the website over the past six months.

• French EU Presidency Seminar for June 2022
  

  Organisers have launched a call for papers for a conference being held as part of a two-day seminar addressing ‘What research to meet the pesticides reduction objectives embedded in the European Green Deal?’ The event is being held on June 2 and 3 2022 in Dijon, France and will bring together researchers and professionals from across Europe to discuss the latest scientific advances which can significantly cut chemical pesticide use.

• Save the date: SusCrop events in 2022
  

  SusCrop, the ERA-Net Cofund Action aiming to strengthen the European Research Area (ERA) in the field of sustainable crop production through enhanced cooperation and coordination of different national and regional research programmes, has issued a save the date for 2022.

• New agroecology publications available
  

  Freely available new publications in the field of agroecology include a review of agroecological transitions, with a particular focus on deterministic and open-ended perspectives, while the ‘26th dossier d’Agropolis’ is devoted to research and partnerships in agroecology with a focus on the partnership between France and the CGIAR. In addition, in early December The Global Alliance for the Future of Food released a new compendium titled ‘The Politics of Knowledge: Understanding the Evidence for Agroecology, Regenerative Approaches, and Indigenous Foodways’.

• ‘Potential gold-mine’ for wheat breeders
  

  Scientists at Rothamsted Research have made a series of unexpected discoveries within the wheat genome which they say should lead to new wheat varieties over the coming years. These varieties could include improved traits such as greater disease resistance and better adaptation to climate change.

• New Phoma-causing fungus variant in Europe
  

  A new threat to oilseed rape (OSR) crops has been identified for the first time in Europe. The UK’s Rothamsted Research reports that a variant of a fungus that causes Phoma in OSR and other brassicas has been identified in southern England and Northern Ireland.