Challenges and opportunities for increasing the use of low-risk plant protection products in sustainable production. A review
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Challenges and opportunities for increasing the use of low-risk plant protection products in sustainable production. A review. / Lankinen, Åsa; Witzell, Johanna; Aleklett, Kristin; Furenhed, Sara; Green, Kristina Karlsson; Latz, Meike; Liljeroth, Erland; Larsson, Rebecca; Löfkvist, Klara; Meijer, Johan; Menkis, Audrius; Ninkovic, Velemir; Olson, Åke; Grenville-Briggs, Laura.
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T1 - Challenges and opportunities for increasing the use of low-risk plant protection products in sustainable production. A review
AU - Lankinen, Åsa
AU - Witzell, Johanna
AU - Aleklett, Kristin
AU - Furenhed, Sara
AU - Green, Kristina Karlsson
AU - Latz, Meike
AU - Liljeroth, Erland
AU - Larsson, Rebecca
AU - Löfkvist, Klara
AU - Meijer, Johan
AU - Menkis, Audrius
AU - Ninkovic, Velemir
AU - Olson, Åke
AU - Grenville-Briggs, Laura
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Plant production systems worldwide are struggling to meet the diverse and increasing needs of humankind while also facing challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss. This, combined with the desirable transition from the use of conventional pesticides to more sustainable plant protection solutions, has led to an urgent, and increasing, need for low-risk plant protection products (PPPs) to be developed, applied, and integrated into management practices across all types of plant production systems. Despite a high demand from end users and consumers together with joint political goals at the EU level to replace conventional pesticides, the number of low-risk PPPs on the European market remains low, in comparison to synthetic agrochemicals. In this review, we summarize knowledge about the policy, technical, and administrative issues hampering the process of bringing new low-risk PPPs to the European market. We present an overview of the challenges in using the low-risk PPPs that are currently available within the EU agricultural, horticultural, and forestry sectors. We describe the variation in modes of action and the limitations associated with different application techniques and give concrete examples of problems and solutions from Swedish plant production sectors, in contrast to global perspectives as demonstrated by examples from African agriculture. Finally, we conclude that trans-sectoral, multi-actor approaches are required and provide suggestions on how to address the remaining knowledge gaps related to efficiency, application, and economics of low-risk PPP use in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) solutions for plant protection to improve future food security in Europe.
AB - Plant production systems worldwide are struggling to meet the diverse and increasing needs of humankind while also facing challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss. This, combined with the desirable transition from the use of conventional pesticides to more sustainable plant protection solutions, has led to an urgent, and increasing, need for low-risk plant protection products (PPPs) to be developed, applied, and integrated into management practices across all types of plant production systems. Despite a high demand from end users and consumers together with joint political goals at the EU level to replace conventional pesticides, the number of low-risk PPPs on the European market remains low, in comparison to synthetic agrochemicals. In this review, we summarize knowledge about the policy, technical, and administrative issues hampering the process of bringing new low-risk PPPs to the European market. We present an overview of the challenges in using the low-risk PPPs that are currently available within the EU agricultural, horticultural, and forestry sectors. We describe the variation in modes of action and the limitations associated with different application techniques and give concrete examples of problems and solutions from Swedish plant production sectors, in contrast to global perspectives as demonstrated by examples from African agriculture. Finally, we conclude that trans-sectoral, multi-actor approaches are required and provide suggestions on how to address the remaining knowledge gaps related to efficiency, application, and economics of low-risk PPP use in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) solutions for plant protection to improve future food security in Europe.
KW - Application techniques
KW - Basic substances
KW - Biological control agents
KW - Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
KW - Legislation
KW - Low-risk substances
KW - Plant production systems
KW - Sustainable Development Goals
U2 - 10.1007/s13593-024-00957-5
DO - 10.1007/s13593-024-00957-5
M3 - Review
AN - SCOPUS:85191097765
VL - 44
JO - Agronomy for Sustainable Development
JF - Agronomy for Sustainable Development
SN - 1774-0746
M1 - 21
ER -
ID: 390190577