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How can research contribute to the How can research contribute to the mainstreaming of IPM? mainstreaming of IPM?

PAN workshopPAN workshopBrussels, Jan. 22, 2009Brussels, Jan. 22, 2009

------Marco Barzman,Marco Barzman,

ENDURE Assistant-CoordinatorENDURE Assistant-Coordinator

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The contextThe context

An institutional process leading to a lock-in

improve existing systems

orunlock them

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View from the fieldView from the field

Farmers face important & urgent problems

Farmers usually tweak rather than re-vamp their systems

Farmers are inside the lock-in

Nevertheless:

Important & less urgent problems are also real

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3 types of goals3 types of goals

Reduce volumes

Reduce risks

Reduce reliance

With tactics

With more robust systems

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3 types of goals3 types of goals

Reduce volumes

Reduce risks

Reduce reliance

lower doses (DK)DSS - monitoring

buffer zonesleast-toxicsafe-use

↑ spatial diversity↑ temporal diversityresistant cultivarsmech. weedingBC-friendly env.

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Unlock the lock-inUnlock the lock-in

Technical level

Systems approach

Multiple actors

New performance criteria

Ways of doing research

Knowledge - learning

↑ spatial diversity↑ temporal diversityresistant cultivarsmech. weeding

multi-discipl.ex-ante multi-criteria eval

agri-food supply chain

understanding theminvolving them

redefine productivityadopt sustainability

partnershipson-farm

principles

PIClég

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Mainstreaming IPM?Mainstreaming IPM?

Research for single tactics / optimization

Multidisciplinary research on whole systems

Break out of historically-built duality:– Organic & conventional– Ecology & agronomy– CAP & Agri-Env. Measures

Create EU-level synergies

Support the implementation of the FD

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Ideas for PANIdeas for PAN

Involvement in ENDURE (Advisory Board, Sociological work)

Legislation on alternative inputs– Biopesticides– Biological control agents (“European Action Plan for the

Promotion of Biological Control”)

Support development of NAPs (can use DK, NL, FR as examples)

Support incentives for IPM

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