Identifying obstacles and ranking common biological control research priorities for Europe to manage most economically important pests in arable, vegetable and perennial crops

Jay Ram Lamichhane (), Monika Bischoff-Schaefer, Sylvia Bluemel, Silke Dachbrodt-Saaydeh, Laure Dreux, Jean-Pierre Jansen, József Kiss (), Jürgen Köhl, Per Kudsk, Thibaut Malausa (), Antoine Messéan (), Philippe C. Nicot (), Pierre Ricci, Jérôme Thibierge and François Villeneuve ()
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Jay Ram Lamichhane: ECO-INNOV - Unité Impacts Ecologiques des Innovations en Production Végétale - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, PV - Unité de Pathologie Végétale - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Monika Bischoff-Schaefer: Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants - JKI - Julius Kühn-Institut - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants
Sylvia Bluemel: Institute of Plant Health - Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety
Silke Dachbrodt-Saaydeh: Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants - JKI - Julius Kühn-Institut - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants
Laure Dreux: ECO-INNOV - Unité Impacts Ecologiques des Innovations en Production Végétale - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Jean-Pierre Jansen: CRA-W - Centre wallon de Recherches Agronomiques [Belgique] = Walloon Agricultural Research Centre [Belgium]
József Kiss: ATK NOVI - Plant Protection Institute [Budapest] - ATK - Centre for Agricultural Research [Budapest] - MTA - Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Jürgen Köhl: WUR - Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen]
Per Kudsk: Department of Agroecology - Aarhus University [Aarhus]
Thibaut Malausa: ISA - Institut Sophia Agrobiotech - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - UNS - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Antoine Messéan: ECO-INNOV - Unité Impacts Ecologiques des Innovations en Production Végétale - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Philippe C. Nicot: PV - Unité de Pathologie Végétale - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Pierre Ricci: ISA - Institut Sophia Agrobiotech - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - UNS - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Jérôme Thibierge: Invivo AGRINOVEX - Partenaires INRAE
François Villeneuve: Ctifl - Centre de Lanxade - Ctifl - Centre de Lanxade - CTIFL - Centre Technique Interprofessionnel des Fruits et Légumes

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Abstract: EU agriculture is currently in transition from conventional crop protection to integrated pest management (IPM). Because biocontrol is a key component of IPM, many European countries recently have intensified their national efforts on biocontrol research and innovation (R&I), although such initiatives are often fragmented. The operational outputs of national efforts would benefit from closer collaboration among stakeholders via transnationally coordinated approaches, as most economically important pests are similar across Europe. This paper proposes a common European framework on biocontrol R&I. It identifies generic R&I bottlenecks and needs as well as priorities for three crop types (arable, vegetable and perennial crops). The existing gap between the market offers of biocontrol solutions and the demand of growers, the lengthy and expensive registration process for biocontrol solutions and their varying effectiveness due to variable climatic conditions and site-specific factors across Europe are key obstacles hindering the development and adoption of biocontrol solutions in Europe. Considering arable, vegetable and perennial crops, a dozen common target pests are identified for each type of crop and ranked by order of importance at European level. Such a ranked list indicates numerous topics on which future joint transnational efforts would be justified.

Keywords: biomolecules; European research networking; innovation; integrated pest management; beneficials; biopesticides; semiochemicals; sustainable agriculture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Published in Pest Management Science, 2017, 73 (1), pp.14-21. ⟨10.1002/ps.4423⟩

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