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ENDURE 2010 Conference : Read all about it


Europe
December 3, 2010

Copyright: ENDUREIf you missed ENDURE’s 2010 International Conference, IPM in Europe - The ENDURE Network of Excellence shares the fruits of four years’ research with the crop protection community, or were there and want to refresh your memory, all the presentations given can now be consulted online.

The two-day event, which combined plenary sessions, interactive workshops and panel discussions, attracted more than 350 visitors from almost 50 countries to the Eurosites George V conference centre in Paris.

The event was designed to provide farmers, advisers, policy makers, researchers and representatives of the farm supply chain and food retail sectors across Europe with the opportunity to better appreciate, analyse, feed into and benefit from ENDURE’s research strategies and outputs.

It also provided a preview of the permanent European Research Group (ERG) that will maintain, update and enrich the resources made available by ENDURE. The ENDURE ERG was officially launched at the conference, with 14 partners of the original ENDURE Network of Excellence signing the agreement that ensures ENDURE will continue well beyond its four-year funding from the European Commission.

The ENDURE ERG has as its mission: ‘To ensure the sustainability of crop protection in Europe through scientific excellence, interdisciplinary research, and international partnership including policy makers and all stakeholders.' It will be coordinated by INRA’s Antoine Messéan and Marco Barzman, the ENDURE Network of Excellence’s assistant coordinator, will be the scientific officer. You can contact them at: endure@grignon.inra.fr.

The conference was opened by François Houllier, deputy director general of INRA, who emphasised the importance of ENDURE’s Europe-wide approach. “We all share the same problems, the same crops, and the same need to have healthy plants and profitable farms,” he told the conference.

Tim Hall, head of unit at the European Commission’s Directorate General – Research and a former plant pathologist, said he was very pleased with the progress of ENDURE. ENDURE, he said, will be a ‘major part’ of meeting the challenge of ensuring European agriculture remains productive and profitable under the new legislation package, which reduces the availability of pesticides and makes Integrated Pest Management (IPM) a statutory requirement by 2014.

Speaking at the launch of the ERG, he said: “I am very pleased to see the progress and the spirit demonstrated here. Please maintain the impetus you have created.”

Plenary sessions at the conference were devoted to ENDURE’s case studies and system case studies, ENDURE’s outputs for trainers and advisers, ENDURE beyond 2010 (the ERG), research priorities for the development of IPM in European farming systems and the ingredients for successful implementation of IPM policies.

Interactive workshops were dedicated to results and tools from the case studies and system case studies, interfacing with farm advisers and IPM trainers and ENDURE’s resources for IPM research. Panel discussions tackled sustainability assessments of future orchard systems, innovation for IPM (new approaches, tools and emerging technologies and the views of input producing industries), ENDURE’s fostering of international collaborations, the ingredients for successful IPM practices (learning from innovative farmers) and addressing IPM in National Action Plans.

Where presentations are given, you can consult them at 2010 ENDURE International Conference. The event was also filmed and video of the event should be available soon. In the conference pages you can also see a selection of photographs from the event.

The conference was also marked by the presentation of an INRA medal to ENDURE coordinator Pierre Ricci. Pierre is retiring from INRA at the end of the year, after 40 years’ service, having joined in 1970.



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Published: December 3, 2010

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