RICCI , Pierre

There is significant leeway to reduce pesticide use in arable crops and adapt them to the more restrictive French and European policy contexts regarding chemical control. Clearly, current cropping systems can be optimized by increasing the efficiency of pesticides or by substituting pesticide use with alternative control methods. The focus here...

The Ecophyto plan aims at transforming pest management in order to strongly reduce pesticide use. Research and innovation needed to support this transformation have been analyzed by the expert group set up in the plan research axis. Issues have been prioritized in the form of a scientific Program that has been used, since 2011, to mobilize...

Today many research projects and experiments explore alternative routes to chemical crop protection. The examples presented here do not simply propose substitutes to pesticides but illustrate a larger vision: the system approach. This may mean combining complementary control techniques into integrated strategies, moving towards a more resilient...

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En raison de leurs impacts sur l'environnement et la santé, les réglementations récentes visent à réduire l'usage des pesticides en agriculture. Pour s'adapter, peut-on se limiter à quelques ajustements techniques ? Faut-il repenser les bases même du raisonnement de la santé des plantes selon les principes de la protection intégrée ? Quelles...

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Développement local des territoires >The Community-conscious Farmer Les agriculteurs contribuent à l'attractivité du territoire. Les services qu'ils produisent sont reconnus par les acteurs du territoire.

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In the last decade, an extraordinary policy effort has been put in place to reduce the use of chemical plant protection products (PPPs) in French agriculture. This was done through a National Action Plan called Ecophyto which is the French response to the EU Framework Directive on the sustainable use of PPPs. The change in crop protection,...

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This publication is the synthesis of the foresight study "European Crop Protection in 2030". Launched in July 2007, this foresight exercise is one of the activities carried within ENDURE Network of Excellence. It was funded by the EC, under FP6 Priority 5. The study was conducted by a panel of ten crop protection experts from four different...

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