Europe
December 13, 2013

• STEPHY cropping system co-design guide now available
  The first STEPHY Guide on co-designing cropping systems less reliant on pesticides is now available in English. The Guide introduces a four-step learning process for co-designing alternative low-input cropping systems and can be used with advisers, farmers, R&D engineers, local stakeholders, researchers, trainers and students.
• New Advisers: Learning materials online
  The New Advisers project held its closing meeting in Budapest in September and leaves behind useful findings and a wealth of learning materials for farm advisers. ENDURE is making sure that the outputs of this interesting two-year project are made widely available.
• Using cultivar mixtures to manage diseases
  ENDURE researchers have used sophisticated modelling techniques to demonstrate how mixing different cultivars of the same crop species can be a useful tactic in managing multiple diseases, writes Natalia Sapoukhina (pictured right).
• Denmark: Load index now guides pesticide tax
  With effect from 1 July 2013 a new pesticide strategy has been implemented in Denmark, writes Janne Hansen. The aim is to reduce the use of pesticides, particularly those that have a high impact on the environment and human health.
• Co-innovation workshop: Learning from case studies
  More than 40 people from 16 different countries, including researchers, advisers and those involved in innovation support for a more sustainable agriculture, attended ENDURE's European workshop on co-innovation.
• Co-innovation seminar: Consult the presentations
  Some 40 participants from 11 different countries attended a seminar dedicated to the theoretical aspects of co-innovation as ENDURE partners, in collaboration with MTT of Finland, work towards a European workshop on co-innovation being held in Brussels on November 27 and 28.
• Integrating agronomic, social and economic issues in maize
  An innovative pan-European study on the sustainability of traditional and innovative Integrated Pest Managment (IPM) maize-based cropping systems has recently been completed and selected as the European Journal of Agronomy's 'paper of the month'.
• Reaping the benefits of mobility
  ENDURE gambled on its Mobility Programme, running from 2007 to 2010, as a key element in strengthening the capacity and competitiveness of crop protection research in Europe as it provided participants with the opportunity for the cross-fertilisation of ideas, experiences and techniques.
• IPM website a hit in Denmark
  The Danish agricultural advisory service's Integrated Pest Management (IPM) website provides knowledge and inspiration to farmers, advisers and agricultural students. Affiliation with ENDURE has proven of great value, writes Janne Hansen.
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Published: December 13, 2013