Farmer’s Toolbox for Integrated Pest Management
The Pilot Project – Developing a farmers’ toolbox for integrated pest management practices from across the Union, was commissioned by the European Commission – Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural development, following a request from the European Parliament and carried out by a Consortium led by Arcadia International E.E.I.G..
The Pilot Project, retitled “Farmer’s Toolbox for Integrated Pest Management”, was conducted between December 2020 and November 2022, with 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.
The Pilot Project provides a comprehensive description of the main drivers and barriers regarding the full uptake of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices that lead to a significant reduction of pesticide use.
The Pilot Project produced a final report with a summary available in English and French.
As part of the Pilot 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.
Building on the original database, the JRC has developed this visualization tool where interested stakeholders can search for IPM documents developed in the different Member States for specific crops or groups of crops. A total of 273 IPM guidelines and 1342 IPM practices are accessible.
The ambition of this visualization tool is to facilitate the disseminate the database across the EU as a source of inspiration for farmers and farmers’ advisors.
NEW
May 2024 – the original database has been extended to cover 30 crop/sector specific guidelines from the International Organisation for Biological and Integrated Control - West Palaearctic Regional Section (IOBC-WPRS).
IOBC-WPRS is one of six Regional Sections of the International Organisation for Biological Control. IOBC was established in 1955 to promote environmentally safe methods of pest and disease control in plant protection.
The overall aim of IOBC-WPRS Guidelines on Integrated Production is to provide inspiration for a consistent and integral application of Integrated Production principles in different production systems.
These guidelines offer a framework for the formulation of regional or national guidelines and standards and facilitate harmonization of these concepts and guidelines at an international level.
The IOBC-WPRS IP publications are published by the Commission on IP Guidelines.
They are elaborated with the help of the IOBC-WPRS Community notably the members of the different Working and Study groups and/or ad hoc expert panels (see references in the editor lists of each publication).
The different publications are updated regularly. This information has been provided by the IOBC-WPRS as is. For further information please refer to the Commission on Guidelines for Integrated Production.
The repository available here includes information originally collected by the contractor of the Pilot Project “IPM Toolbox”. This information was considered as relevant for dissemination by the contractor and is published under its responsibility. No update of this information is however made by the contractor after the publication and sources of each entry are invited to take contact with the JRC for keeping the information updated. Any organisation developing IPM approaches and interested that they are included in this repository is also invited to contact with the JRC which will consider adding them to the database if the information is provided in the requested format and after requesting approval from the relevant Commission Services.
Please address your expression of interest to
JRC-DATAM@ec.europa.eu with the subject “IPM Toolbox - Best practices update request”.
This section includes the crop/sector guidelines developed by Member States’ national authorities in implementation of the Sustainable Use of pesticides Directive - SUD (Article 14(5) of Directive 2009/128/EC). These guidelines are published under the responsibility of the contractor of the Pilot Project “IPM Toolbox” and the information available here does not necessarily reflect the most recent developments.
