Integrated Protection of Stored Products
Keywords |
Stored products, Food industries, pests, natural enemies, prevention, monitoring, IPM, control, food safety, urban entomology |
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| Convenor | RIUDAVETS Jordi | |
| Liaison-Officer | BARDIN Marc | |
Structure |
The group was founded in 1992. It comprises more then 100 scientists from about 30 countries of all Continents. |
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Aim |
The WG promotes the use of sustainable, environmental safe economically feasible socially acceptable control-methods of pests and diseases of stored products and food industries. The general objectives of the WG are the communication of research findings and the promotion of methods for integrated goods protection that help to reduce the use of pesticides and to avoid risks to the user, to the consumer as well as to the environment. |
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Activities |
The WG "Integrated Protection of Stored Products" organizes bi-annual meetings and activities related with co-ordination, co-operations and networking (COST Actions, EUREKA, ERA NET, International Working Conference of Stored Product Protection, International Congress of Entomology, European Congress of Entomology, International Plant Protection Conference, etc.) The WG meets to discuss new findings regarding the following topics:
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Achievements |
The proceedings of the group meetings were published in the IOBC-WPRS Bulletins:
Meeting 2017, 3-5 July, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Meeting 2015, 28 June - 1 July, Zagreb, Croatia. Meeting 2013, 01-04 July, Bordeaux, France.
Meeting 2011, 04-07 July, Volos, Greece. Meeting 2009, 29 June - 2 July, Molise, Campobasso, Italy. Meeting 2007, 20-23 August, Poznań, Poland. Meeting 2005, 20-23 September, Prague, Czech Republic. Meeting 2001, Lisbon, Portugal. Meeting 1999, Berlin, Germany. 1st Meeting 1997 in Zurich, Switzerland.
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