A two-day Ecophyto research colloquium is being held in Paris, France, on October 13 and 14, where the outcomes of recently completed research projects aimed at reducing agriculture’s reliance on pesticides will be presented and discussed. The organisers note: “This colloquium will be an opportunity to share the research findings, to assess their relevance to foster the transition towards less pesticide-dependent cropping systems and to identify future research and development priorities.
“The colloquium targets a wide range of stakeholders, including scientists, extension services, supply chain actors, teachers, students, and policy makers. The Colloquium will be held in French with simultaneous translation in English.”
Presentations and discussions are being organised around six sessions:
- Exposure to pesticides and impacts on human health
- Biocontrol, current solutions and perspectives
- Role of new technologies to help reduce the use of pesticides
- Role of plant genetics
- Systems approaches
- Environmental impacts: assessment and mitigation
An additional session will discuss the added value of shared research activities at the European level, with a presentation of the C-IPM ERA-NET from its coordinator Antoine Messéan (also the coordinator of ENDURE). It will also include presentations from ENDURE’s Lise Nistrup Joergensen (pictured above right, Aarhus University, Denmark) on the EuroWheat and EuroBlight platforms and Silke Dachbrodt-Saaydeh (JKI, Germany) on the networking of IPM long-term field trials.
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The second edition of the Colloquium « Research for Écophyto » aims to present and discuss the outcomes of recently completed research projects that were funded by various National calls and whose overall objective is to help reduce the reliance of Agriculture on pesticides. This Colloquium will be an opportunity to share the research findings, to assess their relevance to foster the transition towards less pesticide-dependent cropping systems and to identify future research and development priorities. The colloquium targets a wide range of stakeholders, including scientists, extension services, supply chain actors, teachers, students, and policy makers. The Colloquium will be held in French with simultaneous translation in English.
The Écophyto plan (http://agriculture.gouv.fr/ecophyto) is one component of the French strategy to convert agriculture to agro-ecology project and aims to change crop protection strategies in order to reduce the use of pesticides, while maintaining economic performance. Écophyto implements the Directive 2009/128 / EC, which promote the implementation of the principles of Integrated Pest Management in European Agriculture.
A first edition of the seminar « Research for Écophyto » was held on the 28th and 29th January 2013 (http://agriculture.gouv.fr/recherche-ecophyto-bilan). More than 200 participants (scientists, stakeholders and local decision makers) discussed the outcomes of twenty-three research projects from different calls (CASDAR, MEDDE, ANR, ANSES, ...) launched in 2008. The proceedings were published in the online journal "innovations agronomiques" INRA (http://www6.inra.fr/ciag/Revue/Volumes-publies-en-2013/Volume -28-June-2013).
In this second edition, presentations and discussions are organised around six sessions:
- Exposure to pesticides and impacts on human health;
- Biocontrol, current solutions and perspectives;
- Role of new technologies to help reduce the use of pesticides;
- Role of plant genetics;
- Systems approaches;
- Environmental impacts: assessment and mitigation.
An additional session will discuss the added value to share research activities at the European level.
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