- July 12, 2024
Farmer's Toolbox for Integrated Pest Management Extended by IOBC-WPRS IP/IPM Guidelines
The EU “Farmer’s Toolbox for Integrated Pest Management” is an interactive, online library of IPM resources designed for farmers and advisors. Topics and resources within the Toolbox include alternative agronomic practices, decision support systems, case studies, economic analysis and training guides alongside links to past and current IPM initiatives.
We are proud to announce that the original EU IPM database has been extended to cover 30 crop/sector specific IP/IPM guidelines from IOBC-WPRS!
The Toolbox is effectively a search engine. It allows users to discover relevant IPM resources from sources across Europe.
Currently a total of 273 IPM guidelines and 1342 IPM practices are accessible at https://datam.jrc.ec.europa.eu/datam/mashup/IPM
Farmer’s Toolbox for Integrated Pest Management
The EU Pilot Project “Farmer’s Toolbox for Integrated Pest Management”, has the main objective to provide background knowledge on the most promising ways that could help farmers, advisors, and policymakers to scale up the reduction of the dependency on pesticide use across the EU, as advocated in the European Commission’s Farm to Fork Strategy and in the context of the European Green Deal.
As part of the project a database with IPM practices, techniques and technologies and with crop- and sector-specific IPM guidelines currently developed in the different member states was created.