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The latest edition of the Journal of Applied Entomology is devoted to maize pests, featuring a detailed overview of ENDURE’s maize case study among 12 papers presented by the International Working Group on Ostrinia and other Maize Pests (IWGO). IWGO, a Global - International Organisation of Biological Control (IOBC) Working Group created in 1968, selected the papers from the 57 oral and 31 poster presentations at its 2009 conference in Germany.
PhD students can now apply for the third ENDURE Summer School, which will be based on the theme of ‘New and emerging agricultural pests, diseases and weeds’ and take place at its usual location, the SIAF International School of Advanced Education in the heart of Italy’s Tuscany region.
Despite a history stretching back more than a century, biological control methods are a long way short of being a mainstream feature of modern agriculture. To better understand the role biological controls can play in crop protection, alongside the factors that influence their success or failure, and the economics of a sector that faces challenges rather different to those of the chemical industry, one ENDURE research team has just completed a major 234-page report.
ENDURE was well represented at the recent three-day workshop of EuroBlight, the potato late blight network for Europe, which tackled a range of issues involving the disease caused by the pseudo-fungus Phytophthora infestans.
Given the complex nature of Integrated Pest Management (IPM), it is not always easy to establish what can be done to improve training and education for advisers and teachers and hence improve the scale and depth of IPM used by farmers in the field. But to breach this barrier, one team of researchers is hard at work creating an ENDURE IPM Training Guide.
ENDURE sociologists will be leading a workshop addressing ‘Transitions towards sustainable agriculture: From farmers to agro-food systems’ at July’s 9th European International Farming Systems Association’s Symposium, which is being held at BOKU University in the Austrian capital of Vienna.
ENDURE’s Two-Track System is an information resource open not only to ENDURE researchers but to members of the crop protection community worldwide. It offers easily searched databases providing details of the working groups of various crop protection networks, funding sources for researchers and a listing of international crop protection experts.
More than 7.7 million tonnes of fresh vegetables were traded between European Union countries in 2007, and while fresh vegetables occupy only a small proportion of our farmland, they are particularly valuable to the agricultural sector.
Having introduced the participatory approach in the second leaflet in ENDURE’s Training in Integrated Pest Mangement (IPM) series, researchers at Hungary’s Szent István University have now produced a third leaflet taking an in-depth look at conducting successful participatory training.
The United Kingdom has launched a 12-week consultation on how best to introduce the European Union’s new 'pesticides package’, inviting all interested parties to contribute to a process which will help the government draw up ‘implementing legislation’ to bring UK pesticide law into line with the new European legislation.
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