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Driven by the French Institute INRAE and its German counterparts ZALF and
Julius Kühn Institute, this unprecedented endeavour brings the European research community together around an ambitious vision of an agriculture free of chemical pesticides. A joint declaration of intent “Towards a Chemical Pesticide-free Agriculture” was signed in Paris on February 23rd.
INRAE send out the following official press relaese:A strong demand from public authorities, agriculture professionals, and society in general, all over Europe, has spurred collaborative research in order to accelerate the agroecological transition. To face a challenge of this magnitude the joint declaration of intent “Towards a Chemical Pesticide-free Agriculture” aims to rethink the way research is carried out and develop
new common research and experimentation strategies, not just at a national level, but throughout the whole continent. This declaration was signed today by 24 research organisations from 16 European countries. Driven by the French Institute INRAE and its German counterparts ZALF and Julius Kühn Institute (JKI), this unprecedented endeavour has brought the European research community together around this ambitious vision of an agriculture free of chemical pesticides. The declaration, formalised on 23 February at the Paris International Agricultural Show, with the support of the
French Agriculture and Research Ministries in presence of Amélie de Montchalin the French State Secretary of EU Affairs, establishes a European research alliance, aiming to build a scientific roadmap that will soon be presented to the European Commission, as a contribution to the European Green Deal.
For almost 18 months, INRAE and its German partners from the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) and the German Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (JKI) have been building a dialogue among European researchers and stakeholders with the purpose of setting a common research strategy. Their objective was ambitious: to define a new transdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder research strategy that will allow them to offer solutions for the transition towards a chemical pesticide-free agriculture all around the continent.
Today, 24 European research institutes signed a declaration of intent to share this bold vision. This agreement echoes the European Green Deal for a sustainable ecological transition in Europe, which was announced by the European Commission in December 2019 to encourage the adoption of ambitious measures. The measures announced involve multiple sectors—agriculture, food, and the environment—with the objective of developing a sustainable agriculture and producing healthy food, while maintaining productive and economically sound agri-food systems.
Through their network, the 24 signatory organisations have already drawn up multiple common research avenues, such as establishing a better use of agro-ecological principles to develop disease resistant production systems,exploiting the high potential of plant selection, developing the use of new technologies and agro-equipments, and understanding the levers and obstacles of the socio-economic transition, among others.
The roadmap being devised calls into question the current research methods by integrating systemic and multidisciplinary approaches. The new methods must reinforce the links between the production of knowledge and the experimentation process, both in the lab and in the field. The goal is an open science system, where researchers work closely together with the world of agriculture to implement changes promptly, sharing their work and its results all over the continent, including all types of agriculture, and integrating the variety of climates and soils in order to test the alternative
solutions at a bigger scale.
https://www.inrae.fr/en/news/alternatives-chemical-pesticides-24-european-resear... Press release by INRAE
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