This document outlines a project funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 programme focused on pest management and agricultural innovation. It summarizes stakeholder feedback on barriers to integrated pest management (IPM), emphasizing high costs, regulatory hurdles, and the need for training. The results highlight concerns about the future of pesticide use amid evolving EU policies and a call for more effective training and solutions in agriculture.

1. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 634179.
EMPHASIS
Effective Management of Pests and Harmful Alien Species - Integrated Solutions
H2020 projects for evidence-based
agricultural related policies
Wed, April 25th, 2018
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
European Parliament – Altiero Spinelli building
SURVEY ADDRESSED TO END-USERS
Isabel Mendoza
MOVERIM

2. INTRODUCTION
Aim of D1.3 “Decision-taking analysis"
The decision-taking analysis intends to provide an analytical framework for business
uptake of selected innovations from WP2/WP3
Methodology
• Workshop with stakeholders, held in Brussels 2016
• Survey addressed to experts
• Survey addressed to end-users

3. INTRODUCTION
Participants Languages Countries Duration
Workshop w/Stakeholders 56 1 ND 1 day
Survey for Experts 199 5 34 over 4 months
Survey for End-Users 1.077 11 39 4 months

4. INTRODUCTION
Participants Languages Countries Duration
Workshop w/Stakeholders 56 1 ND 1 day
Survey for Experts 199 5 34 over 4 months
Survey for End-Users 1.077 11 39 4 months

5. Logistics and dissemination
1.077 answers
340 emails
150 comments
8.830
clicks
Over
300.000
views
600
actions
600 dissemination actions
• 147 actions on Social Media
• 102 on Facebook
• 14 on Linkedin
• 31 on Twitter

6. Results

7. Results
Spain 689 answers
Germany 151 answers
Italy 75 answers
Latvia 54 answers
Others 108 answers

8. Results: profesional profiles
Farmers 784 answers Foresters 41 answers Others 252 answers
Consultants
Farmer associations
Gardeners
Researchers
…

9. Results: sectors
Agriculture 914 answers
- 588 Orchard
- 164 Cereals
- 162 Vegetables
Forestry 43 answers Non-agricultural based
120 answers

10. Results: type of culture
Agriculture
- 423 Conventional
- 290 Integrated
- 91 Intensive
- 110 Organic
Forestry
- 19 Conventional
- 15 Integrated
- 5 Intensive
- 4 Organic
Non-agricultural based
- 51 Conventional
- 33 Integrated
- 8 Intensive
- 28 Organic

11. Key issues for IPM implementation expressed by stakeholders
• Interest to try new technologies without supporting initial costs. Price, costs and
development of cost-effective measures. End-users regard high cost of control (37%) and
monitoring (18%) methods as the main barrier for their implementation.
• Regulatory hurdles, regarding approval/withdrawal of plant protection products, and
regulatory and trade related bans. End-users regard the cost of complying with or the
constraints imposed by regulatory barriers for control (19%) and monitoring (17%) methods
as an important issue.
• Need of training for practical solutions to specific problem. End-users regard the need of
training and/or expertise required for applying control (26%) and monitoring (48%) methods
as one of the most important issues.
• Pesticides are perceived as highly necessary by about 70% of end-users. A total of 74% of
them were concerned to some degree about the possible future withdrawal of some or all
pesticides due to the implementation of EU policy (Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009).

12. Key issues for IPM implementation expressed by stakeholders
✓ Interest to try new technologies without supporting initial costs. Price, costs and
development of cost-effective measures. End-users regard high cost of control (37%) and
monitoring (18%) methods as the main barrier for their implementation.
“Do not annoy us more by prohibiting
products, the small amount of options
available on the market are very
expensive, it seems that everything is
thought so that four big companies
make money on farmers expense”

13. Key issues for IPM implementation expressed by stakeholders
✓ Regulatory hurdles, regarding approval/withdrawal of plant protection products, and
regulatory and trade related bans. End-users regard the cost of complying with or the
constraints imposed by regulatory barriers for control (19%) and monitoring (17%) methods
as an important issue.
“The danger from restrictions in active ingredients and having to
accept extraneous decisions through political activists is huge. For
this reason it is possible that we have to give up our business in
the future”
“In the case of limiting the use of pesticides in the EU, agricultural
imports from countries outside the EU should be strictly controlled,
very strictly”

14. Key issues for IPM implementation expressed by stakeholders
✓ Need of training for practical solutions to specific problem. End-users regard the need of
training and/or expertise required for applying control (26%) and monitoring (48%) methods
as one of the most important issues.
“The farmer should be more trained, prepared
and have at his disposal biological control
measures to combat pests and less
phytosanitary products”

15. Key issues for IPM implementation expressed by stakeholders
✓ Pesticides are perceived as highly necessary by about 70% of end-users. A total of 74% of
respondents were concerned to some degree about the possible future withdrawal of some
or all pesticides due to the implementation of EU policy (Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009).
“I am starting to try to use as little phytosanitary
products as possible. But I lack information. I am
subscribed to the bulletins, which help a lot, but I still
lack some more information”
“Agriculture is unviable with the regulations imposed by
Europe for European countries, while allowing the use of
pesticides in other countries that sell their production to
Europe”

16. Key issues for IPM implementation expressed by stakeholders
“I am trying to farm highly precisely with regard to plant protection and
fertilisation through single area specific farming. When are such measures/
technologies going to be explained to the end-user? From a societal point of
view it is really no fun being a farmer anymore. 10 years ago one could still
be proud, today one is the scapegoat for everything due to half- truths from
politics and NGOs...”
“Being Spain a power in agriculture, it is really embarrassing that the rules
are imposed from Europe and that we are not able to take a proactive
initiative in favour of agriculture. Where are the Directors General of
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and all those who are at their service ?
Missing in combat. And I would ask them , are they politically appointed?
............................. TRUE PROFFESIONALS ARE SCARCE”
“Due to resistance and the ban of proven plant protection products the
fight against damaging organisms is getting more and more difficult”
“Emphasis is to be made in the development of solutions based on
microorganism and physical, cultural, etc. procedures”

17. THANKS!
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22 MAY 2018
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No 634179.
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OPEN DAYS 2018:
5 JUNE 2018
UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
LARGO BRACCINI 2, 10095
GRUGLIASCO (TO)