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8 Key Components and Elements Critical to Achieving the Vision: Group Discussion Summary
8 Key Components and Elements Critical to Achieving the Vision: Group Discussion Summary
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Finally, what are the opportunities that professional societies could pursue to foster EBPM research and implementation? FINDING COMMON GROUND Throughout He group discussions, a number of participants used the terms "EBPM" and "IPM" (integrated pest management)
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To further advance EBPM as a viable pest management system to farmers, the discussion participants acknowledged that farmers needed to understand the value of shifting from maximum yields to sustaining managed ecosystems. There should also be a stronger focus on issues of quality—quality of the products and of the production system.
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These opportunities could result in additional grassroots support and infrastructure, a critical resource for public education, and raising political awareness. A common interest in EBPM and the issues surrounding farm and rural community structure and stability can initiate other partnerships among societies representing social scientists, applied anthropologists, rural development experts, and political scientists.
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There are producer organizations that have a stake in EBPM, such as various commodity groups, organizations of crop consultants, processors, and marketers, including cooperatives and grocery store chains, that have a stake in IPM labeling and organic products. There are also consumer organizations, input suppliers, cooperative extensions (both the general basic extension and the IPM cooperative extension program)
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The ecologists in these applied fields can use, via their respective professional societies, the annual meetings, forums, and symposia to integrate the relevant ecological theories into their disciplines for the benefit of their fellow members. The group also noted that more research should focus on those managed ecosystems where there are few or no pest problems as a way to understand more about what makes these systems successful.
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Due to intellectual and business property issues inherent in the development of the different lines of these crops by the private sector, researchers in the public sector and farmers may feel left "out of the loop." There was concern that there will be a significant time lag between the studies that examine the agronomic characteristics (including pest susceptibility) of these new crop lines and the growing commercial acceptance and use of these crops.
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Participants identified public education and outreach in subject areas that included food production, processing, and related food and environmental safety issues as important areas for improvement. If this effort begins with children, there is the hope that the public, in 1~15 years, can make better-educated decisions as consumers and voters.
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For farmers to adopt and implement monitoring requires lobbying for more "green" programs that offer the farmer financial and political incentives to adopt ecologically sound pest management strategies. Can the current infrastructure of researchers, institutions, and advocates involved in IPM and EBPM move the policy makers into providing those incentives?
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The attendees from the workshop came away with a new appreciation for collaborations and partnerships, which should not be limited to scientists or professional societies. There was recognition that the interdisciplinary research required to filer develop ecologically based integrated pest management should draw upon other interested organizations and groups, such as producers, input suppliers, nongovernmental organizations, as well as academic scientists.
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