ADOPT-IPM

Chemical pesticides are harmful to the environment and human health, and their use should be restricted. Integrated pest management (IPM) combines preventive measures such as agronomic practices (crop rotations) and responsive measures such as biological pest control, and as a last resort chemical control. However, many available IPM tools are suboptimal, notably due to a loose political context, and many other IPM tools are still lacking, hindering our ability to counter the growing threats of invasive pests worldwide. The EU-funded ADOPT-IPM project will optimise existing IPM tools and packages and develop new IPM tools. It will also foster stakeholders’ adoption of IPM tools by surveying use and needs, and through trials and demonstration days of the newly optimised and developed tools with industrial partners.