The use of pesticides in Polish agriculture after integrated pest management (IPM) implementation

Piwowar, Arkadiusz

doi:10.1007/s11356-020-12283-w

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“…A comparable effectiveness of weed control was obtained in relation to the less intensive cultivation of crops in monoculture [82]. Despite the binding IPM, the chemical method is the dominant form of plant protection in the conventional agricultural production system [83]. In turn, the plant protection in organic farming is based on non-chemical methods.…”

Section: Plant Protectionmentioning

confidence: 86%

Reducing Carbon Footprint of Agriculture—Can Organic Farming Help to Mitigate Climate Change?

2022

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In the face of a changing climate, intensive efforts are needed for limiting the global temperature increase to 1.5 °C. Agricultural production has the potential to play an important role in mitigating climate change. It is necessary to optimize all of the agricultural practices that have high levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Among the plant production processes, mineral fertilization is of the greatest importance in the formation of the carbon footprint (CF) of crops. There are many possibilities for reducing GHG emissions from the application of fertilizers. Further benefits in reducing the CF can be obtained through combining tillage treatments, reduced and no-till technologies, and the cultivation of catch crops and leguminous plants. Organic farming has the potential for reducing GHG emissions and improving organic carbon sequestration. This system eliminates synthetic nitrogen fertilizers and thus could lower global agricultural GHG emissions. Organic farming could result in a higher soil organic carbon content compared to non-organic systems. When used together with other environmentally friendly farming practices, significant reductions of GHG emissions can be achieved.

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Section: Plant Protectionmentioning

confidence: 86%

Reducing Carbon Footprint of Agriculture—Can Organic Farming Help to Mitigate Climate Change?

2022

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“…In addition, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) attained 50-80% cuts in insecticide use on millions of rice farms without any noticeable yield loss (Bottrell and Schoenly 2012). In the US, the Huffaker project for IPM and the IPM consortium (1972)(1973)(1974)(1975)(1976)(1977)(1978)(1979)(1980)(1981)(1982)(1983)(1984)(1985) attained a 70-80% reduction of a wide set of pesticides on > 5 million hectares-resulting in more than $500 million annual savings (Pimentel and Peshin 2014). In a review of more than 500 IPM programs from across the globe, 13% and 19% respective increases in crop yields and farm profits were logged with even partial IPM adoption delivering concrete benefits (Norton et al 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

Integrated pest management: good intentions, hard realities. A review

Deguine

Aubertot

Flor³

et al. 2021

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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Integrated Pest Management (IPM) provides an illustration of how crop protection has (or has not) evolved over the past six decades. Throughout this period, IPM has endeavored to promote sustainable forms of agriculture, pursued sharp reductions in synthetic pesticide use, and thereby resolved myriad socio-economic, environmental, and human health challenges. Global pesticide use has, however, largely continued unabated, with negative implications for farmer livelihoods, biodiversity conservation, and the human right to food. In this review, we examine how IPM has developed over time and assess whether this concept remains suited to present-day challenges. We believe that despite many good intentions, hard realities need to be faced. 1) We identify the following major weaknesses: i) a multitude of IPM definitions that generate unnecessary confusion; ii) inconsistencies between IPM concepts, practice, and policies; iii) insufficient engagement of farmers in IPM technology development and frequent lack of basic understanding of its underlying ecological concepts. 2) By diverting from the fundamental IPM principles, integration of practices has proceeded along serendipitous routes, proven ineffective, and yielded unacceptable outcomes. 3) We show that in the majority of cases, chemical control still remains the basis of plant health programs. 4) Furthermore, IPM research is often lagging, tends to be misguided, and pays insufficient attention to ecology and to the ecological functioning of agroecosystems. 5) Since the 1960s, IPM rules have been twisted, its foundational concepts have degraded and its serious (farm-level) implementation has not advanced. To remedy this, we are proposing Agroecological Crop Protection as a concept that captures how agroecology can be optimally put to the service of crop protection. Agroecological Crop Protection constitutes an interdisciplinary scientific field that comprises an orderly strategy (and clear prioritization) of practices at the field, farm, and agricultural landscape level and a dimension of social and organizational ecology.

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“…Therefore, there are many actions that farmers can take to reduce emissions. These include increasing carbon sequestration in the soil (West and Marland 2002;Norse 2012;Reay 2020;Xiao et al 2021); reducing the use of mineral fertilizers and replacing them with recycled fertilizers (Kytta et al 2021), as well as using fertilizer appropriately and decreasing energy intensity (Solinas et al 2021), and decreasing the use of mineral pesticides while introducing integrated pest management (Piwowar 2021); lowering the overuse and misuse of nitrogen (Norse 2012); reducing energy consumption and increasing energy efficiency (Piwowar 2019); replacing fossil fuels by renewable energy sources (Dogan and Seker 2016a;Eyuboglu andEzar 2020, Paramati et al 2018); and improving animal feeding techniques and animal husbandry systems as well as designing and using energy-efficient livestock buildings (Kistowski and Wiśniewski 2020). It is also important to optimize animal nutrition and efficient waste management, which have a positive impact on reducing emissions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, the objective of this study was to identify the factors that contribute to the transformation towards low-carbon agriculture in Wielkopolska farms (in Poland). It is worth noting that Poland is one of the largest consumers of mineral fertilizers in Europe (Piwowar 2021 ). Hence, research in this field seems to be needed and urgent, as Polish agriculture faces several important challenges.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

What drives low-carbon agriculture? The experience of farms from the Wielkopolska region in Poland

Borychowski

Grzelak

Popławski

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Because of global environmental problems, low-carbon agriculture has gained increasing importance both in developed and developing countries. Hence, there is a need to find ways to develop more efficient agricultural systems. The purpose of this article is to identify the drivers of low-carbon agriculture on farms in the Wielkopolska region (in Poland). We aimed to take an original approach to investigate low-carbon agriculture with a unique set of different economic and environmental variables and contribute to the literature, which is not very extensive in terms of microeconomic research, including research on farmers in the Wielkopolska region. Therefore, we employed a multiple-factor measurement model for structural equation modeling (SEM) of data collected individually from 120 farms in 2020. As a result, we formulated the following conclusions: the increasing productivity of factors (land, labor, and capital) have a positive effect on low-carbon farming, just as increasing fertilizer and energy efficiency. Moreover, thermal insulation is also important for low-carbon agriculture, with efficiency of fertilizer use being the most important factor. We believe that the issues of farm use of fertilizers and thermal insulation of buildings should be more broadly included in energy policy, both at the national and the European Union (EU) levels. Some of these factors however are already present in the common agricultural policy (CAP) for 2021–2027.

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The use of pesticides in Polish agriculture after integrated pest management (IPM) implementation

Cited by 25 publications

References 106 publications

Reducing Carbon Footprint of Agriculture—Can Organic Farming Help to Mitigate Climate Change?

Reducing Carbon Footprint of Agriculture—Can Organic Farming Help to Mitigate Climate Change?

Integrated pest management: good intentions, hard realities. A review

What drives low-carbon agriculture? The experience of farms from the Wielkopolska region in Poland

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