Objetivo
To meet both the worldwide demand for food security and new environmental needs, agriculture must increase food production and quality while decreasing its ecological footprint. Ensuring sustainability and competitiveness with reduced pesticide inputs is a major challenge.
PURE will provide integrated pest management (IPM) solutions and a practical toolbox for their implementation in key European farming systems (annual arable and vegetable, perennial, and protected crops) in which reduction of pesticide use and better control of pests will have major effects. PURE will exploit recent advances in emerging technologies, plant-pest-enemies interactions, soil and landscape ecology and pest evolution to feed IPM solutions with innovative diagnostic and decision support systems, physical devices and bio-products, strategies for ecological pest regulation and improved durability of control methods.
For each selected farming system, PURE will combine existing methods with new tools and technologies into novel IPM solutions addressing the biological, agronomical and economical diversity in Europe. IPM solutions will range from easy to adopt combinations of tactical control methods to more ambitious solutions involving strategic changes at farm level. PURE will test the efficacy, practicability and relevance of IPM solutions under the agro-ecosystems and farming conditions of the main broad European regions by on-station and on-farm experiments and will perform a comparative assessment of their environmental, economic and social sustainability. By jointly involving researchers and the key actors of pest management (farmers, advisors, policy makers and actors of the food supply chain) in design and assessment, PURE will facilitate the adoption of these innovative IPM solutions.
PURE will thereby contribute to reduce the risks to human health and the environment and the dependence on pesticides and will facilitate the implementation of the pesticides package legislation.
Ámbito científico
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologylandscape ecology
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagricultureagronomyplant protection
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencesnutrition
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturehorticulturevegetable growing
- engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybiomaterials
Convocatoria de propuestas
FP7-KBBE-2010-4
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Régimen de financiación
CP-IP - Large-scale integrating projectCoordinador
75007 Paris
Francia
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Participantes (25)
AL5 2JQ Herts
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8000 Aarhus C
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06484 QUEDLINBURG
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6708 PB Wageningen
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6708 PB Wageningen
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00185 Roma
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1000 Ljubljana
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DD2 5DA Dundee
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38098 San Michele All'Adige
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46113 Moncada
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60 318 POZNAN
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4032 Debrecen
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1049 Bruxelles / Brussel
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8200 AARHUS
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75012 Paris
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40789 Monheim
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75782 PARIS
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64150 NOGUERES
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WD3 1PJ RICKMANSWORTH
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6861 WN OOSTERBEEK
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75013 PARIS
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S10 2TN Sheffield
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75016 Paris
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6709 PA Wageningen
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DD2 5DA DUNDEE
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