A call for stakeholders to boost integrated pest management in Europe: a vision based on the three-year European research area network project |
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| Authors: | Jay Ram Lamichhane Birol Akbas Claus Bo Andreasen Wilma Arendse Sylvia Bluemel Silke Dachbrodt-Saaydeh |
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| Institution: | 1. INRA, UMR AGIR, Castanet-Tolosan, France;2. Plant Health Research Department, Ankara, Turkey;3. Danish Centre for Food and Agriculture, Aarhus University, Foulum, Denmark;4. Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority, Wageningen, the Netherlands;5. Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Vienna, Austria;6. Federal Research Centre For Cultivated Plants, Julius Kühn-Institut, Kleinmachnow, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Recent years have seen an increasing effort towards the development and adoption of sustainable crop protection strategies, especially in the EU. Several policy frameworks have been put in place including the EU framework Directive (128/EC/2009) on the sustainable use of pesticides. Consequently, all EU Member States developed National Action Plans to ensure the implementation of the general principles of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) by all professional pesticide users starting from January 1, 2014. On the other hand, there are also difficulties related to the adoption of IPM in Europe and worldwide which seek for a better understanding of factors hindering IPM uptake. This paper presents the potential role that each actor of the food chain may have – called here stakeholders – to ensure a higher level IPM adoption in Europe. The information reported here is a summary based on several discussions held within a three-year European Research Area Network project on Coordinated Integrated Pest Management (ERA-Net C-IPM; http://c-ipm.org/). |
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| Keywords: | Demonstration farm knowledge sharing obstacles pesticide risk perception socio-economic drivers |
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