Use, impacts and the future of pesticides. What research for LabEx COTE?

Program of activities:

Introduction

• Speech by Valérie MERLE, Head of the Ecophyto 2018 project at the Regional Directorate for Food (DRAAF)

1. Occurrence and trends

• Current and modern challenges relating to the environmental issue of pesticides, by Marie-Hélène Devier (EPOC-LPTC)

2. Impacts

• Impacts of pesticides on phytoplankton and oysters, by Sabine Stachowski (IFREMER BE/EX)

3. How to reduce them?

• An evolutionary approach for reducing the use of pesticides in viticulture, by Adeline Alonso Ugaglia (Gaïa - Bordeaux Sciences Agro)

• Designing and assessing "low input" vineyard systems: Ecoviti Aquitaine project by Laurent Deliere (SAVE)

• Economic model for regulating nitrate pollution, by Emmanuelle Augeraud-Véron and Marc Léandri (GREThA)

Break

    4. Supporting public policies

• Assessing the risk of surface water contamination by protective agents in field crops using spatial multi-criteria analysis, by Francis Macary (Irstea UR ADBX)

• A spatially-distributed Cost-Effectiveness approach to assess agri-environment measures intended to control water pollution by pesticides, by Jean-Marie Lescot (Irstea UR ADBX)

Conclusion

• Speech by Adeline THEVAND, Environmental engineer - Inter municipal union of the Arcachon Bay (SIBA)

Round table: "Use, impacts and the future of pesticides. What research for LabEx COTE?"

At the end of the seminar, The LabEx COTE will invite all participants to continue the discussion over a drink.