Objective
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.
Fields of science
Call for proposal
FP7-KBBE-2010-4
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Funding Scheme
CP-IP - Large-scale integrating projectCoordinator
75007 Paris Cedex 07
France
Participants (25)
AL52JQ Harpenden
8000 Aarhus C
06484 Quedlinburg
6708 PB Wageningen
6708 PB Wageningen
00185 Roma
1000 Ljubljana
DD2 5DA Dundee
38098 San Michele All'adige
46113 Moncada Valencia
60318 Poznan
4032 Debrecen
1049 Brussels
8200 Aarhus
75012 Paris
40789 Monheim
Participation ended
75782 Paris
64150 Nogueres
WD3 1PJ Rickmansworth
Participation ended
6861 WN Oosterbeek
75015 Paris
S10 2TN Sheffield
75016 Paris
6709 PA Wageningen
DD2 5DA Dundee