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Sharing decision-making tools for pest management may foster implementation of Integrated Pest Management

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  • Vittorio Rossi

    (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Piacenza)

  • Tito Caffi

    (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Piacenza)

  • Irene Salotti

    (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Piacenza)

  • Giorgia Fedele

    (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Piacenza)

Abstract

Agriculture needs to reduce its current dependence toward pesticides while reducing crop losses caused by pests and ensuring food security; Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is considered the most appropriate approach to achieve the goal. More specifically, growers should use tools that enable informed decisions on whether and when crop protection is needed, and which methods should be used. These tools include risk algorithms, decision rules, intervention thresholds, and decision support systems (DSSs), collectively named decision tools (DTs). A large number of DTs have been developed and made available to advisors and farmers, mainly through Internet-based systems. The adoption rate of these systems, however, has been low because of technical limitations and farmer perceptions. Fragmentation of the DTs offered, poor local implementation, and restriction to particular users are among the causes for low adoption. If properly mobilised, the use and effects of DTs could substantially be increased. Sharing of IPM DTs has a strong potential for providing wider access to the existing knowledge, for fostering IPM implementation, and for supporting plant health policies. In this article, we outline an overall approach to develop a web-based platform, in which DTs are shared and made widely available. Such a platform can include a range of ready-to-use DTs, i.e. DTs which are currently available, that have been field-validated, and which are already being used in some agricultural contexts. The platform also provides open, full documentation of DTs, makes DTs available for validation and adaptation in different agricultural contexts, and makes DTs easily available for multiple kinds of end-users involved in IPM (farmers, IPM experts, public and private information and service providers, and policy makers). We also consider how DT sharing can reduce both the technological and behavioural limitations of existing plant health management systems.

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  • Vittorio Rossi & Tito Caffi & Irene Salotti & Giorgia Fedele, 2023. "Sharing decision-making tools for pest management may foster implementation of Integrated Pest Management," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 15(6), pages 1459-1474, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:ssefpa:v:15:y:2023:i:6:d:10.1007_s12571-023-01402-3
    DOI: 10.1007/s12571-023-01402-3
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