Author: Wyn Grant Date: 15 March 2011 Book chapter
Biological Alternatives to Chemical Pesticide Inputs in the Food Chain: An Assessment of Sustainability
- Start date: 01 November 2004
- End date: 31 October 2007
UK farmers and growers are challenged with adopting environmentally acceptable methods of pest control while maintaining quality, productivity and profitability. This project will provide new understanding of the environmental and regulatory sustainability of deploying inundatively applied biological control agents (aka biopesticides) as alternatives to chemical pesticides. This will be addressed using entomopathogenic fungi to control aphids in leafy salad crops, a system of which the consortium has considerable expertise.
The project comprises four linked objectives:
- to assess the obstacles to regulatory innovation for environmentally-friendly pest control within a model of the regulatory state
- to improve understanding of the environmental behaviour of biopesticides in relation to entomopathogen local adaptation
- to assess the benefit / cost contributions of biopesticides to sustainability, given constraints imposed by existing decision-making networks
- to compare the private governance model of pesticide reduction in the UK with its legislatively driven counterpart in Denmark.
By improving understanding of key natural and social science factors affecting the deployment of alternatives to chemical pesticides, and by entering into dialogue with principal actors in the pesticide regulation system, this project will progress sustainability goals for the UK rural economy across the whole of the food chain.
- Outputs (39)
Author: Alastair Bailey Date: 02 November 2010 Book
Author: David Chandler Date: 27 April 2010 Conference paper/presentation
Biopesticides : strategies for improving uptake
Author: Wyn Grant Date: 27 April 2010 Conference paper/presentation
Author: Wyn Grant Date: 26 April 2010 Book chapter
Author: Wynford Grant Date: 20 October 2009 Conference paper/presentation
Author: A. Liddon Date: 20 August 2009 Other publication/report
Interdisciplinary approaches to policy change : the example of RELU
Author: Wynford Grant Date: 31 July 2009 Conference paper/presentation
Author: W. Grant Date: 01 July 2009 Conference paper/presentation
Author: W. Grant Date: 01 July 2009 Conference paper/presentation
Author: Wynford Grant Date: 01 July 2009 Other output
Author: Wynford Grant Date: 01 July 2009 Other output
Author: Wynford Grant Date: 01 July 2009 Technical report
Interdisciplinary approaches to policy change : the example of RELU
Author: Wyn Grant Date: 09 June 2009 Conference paper/presentation
Author: Wyn Grant Date: 09 March 2009 Book chapter
Investigating the structure of natural populations of Beauveria
Author: David Chandler Date: 20 February 2009 Conference paper/presentation
Biopesticides in the UK : can we get regulatory innovation
Author: David Chandler Date: 20 February 2009 Conference paper/presentation
Regulation in Europe and IBMA's PR/lobbying role
Creator: Wyn Grant Date: 10 February 2009 Presentation/lecture
Author: David Chandler Date: 05 February 2009 Journal article
Author: Wyn Grant Date: 09 January 2009 Article (submitted)
Author: David Chandler Date: 09 December 2008 Technical report
Biopesticides : scientific challenges and regulatory strategies
Author: Wyn Grant Date: 22 October 2008 Conference paper/presentation
Biopesticides : environmental and regulatory sustainability
Creator: David Chandler Date: 22 October 2008 Seminar/workshop
Do we need regulatory changes to make biopesticides a mainstream solution?
Author: Justin Greaves Date: 22 October 2008 Conference paper/presentation
Cycles and chains
Author: Mark Tatchell Date: 20 October 2008 Conference paper/presentation