Commemorating the 50 years anniversary of Rachel Carson’s “The Silent Spring”

19 june 2012, Brussels. Organised by the International Biocontrol Manufacturers Association (IBMA), the Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) and the International Organization for Biological Control (IOBC). View program, poster and conclusions.

Presentations

IPM and its role in sustainable production

• Why this conference by Owen Jones, president of IBMA
• EU strategy for sustainable plant protection by Ladislav Miko Deputy Director General for the Food Chain European Commission
• IPM an essential tool to ensure needed resource efficiency, keynote speech by Vesna Valant, Member of Cabinet at European Commission
• The Swiss agricultural policy – how a policy assists the sustainable use of pesticides by Ms. Eva Reinhard, Deputy Director of the Swiss Federal Office of Agriculture

The state of the environment in a resource-constrained world

• 50 years after the Silent Spring: successes and future challenges by David Pimentel, Professor of Entomology and Ecology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University
• Behavioural effects of pesticides on bees - non toxic, still lethal by Pavel Poc, Member of the European Parliament

The need for a paradigm change in European agriculture – what is not IPM

• The need for a paradigm change in the Common Agricultural Policy by Dan Jørgensen, Member of European Parliament, vice president of the ENVI committee
• ustainable Food Consumption and Production in a Resource-Contrained World by Erik Mathijs, K.U.Leuven
• he potential of the Common Agricultural Policy to incentivise reductions in agro-chemical dependency by David Baldock, Institute for European Environmental Policy

Examples of IPM – advantages of IPM

• Different strategies to implement IPM in practice: about incentives and impact by Frank Wijnands, Wageningen UR and IP Commission of IOBC
• Improving sustainability: partnerships and certification, experiences by Chris Serra, LIVE wine cooperative, Oregon, United States (LIVE is one of IOBC endorsed organisations)
• When a group of farmers engage seriously in reducing pesticide dependency – it can be done by Bertrand Omon, chambre d’agriculture Eure, France

ICM the key for the European innovative partnership in agriculture

• Incentives and innovation at the heart of Commission policy to foster the use of Sustainable practices in EU agriculture and the food chain by Alina Stefania Ujapan, member of the cabinet of Commissioner Ciolos
• Pesticide reduction – what are the alternatives? – an overview by Franz Bigler, Agroscope and President of IOBC
• Future promising technologies that require further research – why IPM is smart, sustainable and inclusive growth by Karel Bolckmans, IBMA