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Through a joint declaration, "Towards a Chemical Pesticide-free Agriculture", 24 research organizations in 16 countries have committed to work together to find alternatives to the use of synthetic pesticides in Europe and to support public policy.

Driven by INRAE (France) and its German counterparts ZALF and JKI, this unprecedented undertaking will mobilize an entire research community around a shared vision of a synthetic pesticide-free agriculture. The declaration, formalized at the Paris International Agricultural Show on 23 February, with the support of the French Ministries of Agriculture and of Research and in the presence of Amélie de Montchalin, Secretary of State for European Affairs, cements the establishment of a European research alliance, aiming to build a roadmap for presentation to the European Commission, as a contribution to the European Green Deal.

Through their network, the 24 signatory organizations have already identified numerous common research avenues, including:

• making better use of agroecological principles to develop disease-resistant production systems,
• exploiting the high potential of plant selection,
• developing the use of new technologies and agro-equipment,
• understanding the levers and obstacles of the socio-economic transition.

The roadmap being devised calls into question current research methods by integrating systemic and multidisciplinary approaches, which 热博体育 already strives to use. The new methods must reinforce the links between the production of knowledge and the experimentation process, both in the lab and in the field. The goal is an open science system, with close links to the world of agriculture to ensure that changes are implemented promptly, sharing work and results widely, encompassing all types of agriculture and the whole range of climates and soils in order to test alternative solutions on a larger scale.

The signatories

1. Aarhus University, Denmark
2. Agricultural Academy, Bulgaria
3. Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
4. Agroscope, Switzerland
5. Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Italy
6. French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development, France
7. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
8. Hungarian Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Hungary
9. French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment– INRAE, France
10. Institute of Agriculture and Food Biotechnology – IBPRS, Poland
11. Julius Kühn-Institut – JKI, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Germany
12. Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Latvia
13. Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research – ZALF, Germany
14. National Agriculture Research and Innovation Centre – NAIK, Hungary
15. Natural Resources Institute Finland – Luke, Finland
16. Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland
17. Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy
18. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences – SLU, Sweden
19. Szent István University, Hungary
20. Teagasc - Agriculture and Food Development Authority, Ireland
21. University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine - USAMV – Bucharest, Romania
22. University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Poland
23. Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy, Lithuania
24. Zagreb University, Faculty of Agriculture, Croatia