UFZ-Workshop “Towards policy-relevant research on pesticides”

Contribution List

23. Keynote I: Unsolved Problems in the Assessment and Management of Environmental Risks of Pesticides – Research Tasks not only for the Natural Sciences

Jörg Wogram (Umweltbundesamt)

23/10/2024, 09:00

EU law defines pesticides as the entirety of biocides and plant protection products. Both
groups of substances must undergo a complex environmental risk assessment in
authorisation procedures in order to be marketed and used. Despite these
requirements, according to current knowledge plant protection products in particular
have a serious impact on biodiversity in agricultural ecosystems...

24. Keynote II: Sustainable crop production: managing the needs of productivity, environmental safety and agronomic reality

Mark Winter (Industrieverband Agrar), Jörg Müller

23/10/2024, 09:45

Synthetic chemical and biological plant protection products (PPPs) are used in crop production to control pests and weeds, thereby ensuring yield and crop quality. In the absence of PPPs, approximately one-third of global crop yield would be lost (EPRS, 2019). In years with extreme weather conditions, not using synthetic chemical PPPs can lead to total crop loss, as seen in organic potato...

26. Lecture I: Pesticides in the landscape - lessons from insect pollinators and remote sensing

Juergen Groeneveld, Lukas Y. Wick, Marie Uksa, Martin von Bergen

23/10/2024, 11:00

10 min + 5 min discussion

28. Lecture II: Political Life of Pesticides

Frank Hüsker

23/10/2024, 11:15

10 min + 5 min discussion

Four years of householdfunded political science research were conducted at UPOL using qualita-tive social science methods. Main findings are published in 2022 in Environmental Science and Policy (abstract below). Your workshop could be an opportunity to recap other results we have on the desk. Here is the abstract of the journal article (also presented at DVPW in...

27. Pitch Presentations

Olaf Büttner

23/10/2024, 11:30

1) Olaf Buettner - Seamless forward assessment of toxic risks in river networks for mixtures of chemicals originating from wastewater treatment plant effluents
2) Jonas Groening - Partitioning and ecotoxicological effects of pyrethroid insecticides in German small streams
3) Leonia Martha Schweiger & Marco Foit - An open, digital platform for the spatial visualization of predicted pesticide...

29. Lecture III: Fiction, Reality and the Way Forward in Pesticide Risk Assessment

Matthias Liess

23/10/2024, 13:00

10 min + 5 min discussion

The global decline in biodiversity is due to a variety of anthropogenic stressors. Amoungst these, pesticides play a decisive role. In response to this, ever higher targets are being proclaimed in environmental legislation, such as the EU’s Green Deal. However, some of these targets are scientifically contradictory. For example, reducing use by 50% and reducing...

30. World Café with coffee

23/10/2024, 13:15

25. Lecture I: Steuer und Abgaben auf Pestizide - Möglichkeiten und Chancen

Stefan Möckel

10 min + 5 min discussion

Pflanzenschutz ist auf vielfältige Weise möglich: mit vorsorgender und angepasster Bewirtschaftung sowie mit mechanischen, biologischen oder chemischen Maßnahmen zur Minimierung von Schaderregern. Chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel werden von den Herstellern als der einfachste und günstigste Weg beworben. Ihre Wirkstoffe (Pestizide) haben allerdings auch die...