1. FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY How can research contribute to the mainstreaming of IPM? PAN workshop Brussels, Jan. 22, 2009 --- Marco Barzman, ENDURE Assistant-Coordinator

2. © ENDURE, February 2007 FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY The context An institutional process leading to a lock-in improve existing systems or unlock them ?

3. © ENDURE, February 2007 FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY View 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

4. © ENDURE, February 2007 FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY 3 types of goals Reduce volumes Reduce risks Reduce reliance With tactics With more robust systems

5. © ENDURE, February 2007 FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY 3 types of goals Reduce volumes Reduce risks Reduce reliance lower doses (DK) DSS - monitoring buffer zones least-toxic safe-use spatial diversity temporal diversity resistant cultivars mech. weeding BC-friendly env.

6. © ENDURE, February 2007 FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY Unlock the lock-in Technical level Systems approach Multiple actors New performance criteria Ways of doing research Knowledge - learning spatial diversity temporal diversity resistant cultivars mech. weeding multi-discipl. ex-ante multi-criteria eval agri-food supply chain understanding them involving them redefine productivity adopt sustainability partnerships on-farm principles PIClég

7. © ENDURE, February 2007 FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY 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

8. © ENDURE, February 2007 FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY Ideas 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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