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A great scientific event ended and morethan 1200 delegates of over 95 countriesreturned to their countries inspired by newideas, new professional contacts and anoverwhelming, peaceful atmosphere.

»Mission possible: food for all throughappropriate plant protection« – was theheadline of the IPPC Congress 2015. Whatwe heard in the 340 oral contributions andthe 845 posters presented was promising:The United Nations, expecting a globalpopulation of 9 billion people by the year2050, can be sure that one of the biggestglobal challenges of the 21st century, foodsecurity for the growing population, canbe solved.

We CAN feed the world – despite all thedifficulties a globalised world might have,despite a changing climate, and despitelimited and fewer resources, even usingless water, fertilizers and energy. Theapproach demonstrated by the delegatesfrom all continents bases on a sustainableintensification of crop production. Evenmore important is an intensification of

mutual collaboration of all parties involvedin plant production: farmers, extensionservices, research and education instituti-ons, including scientific civil societies,regulators and administrations, storageand trade companies, retailers, and consu-mers. One of the key factors to help thosewho cannot help themselves is a harmo-nized legal framework for the whole pro-duct chain from farm to fork. A generallyaccepted agro-ethical code of practiceshould be recognized by interacting coun-tries, delegates said. All pointed out thatwithout political stability the best agricul-tural system will fail.

All delegates agreed that integrated pestmanagement plays a key role in regard tothis mission. An integrated approach toplant protection provides the best meansof achieving effective and resilient plantprotection strategies. It is knowledge-based and uses scientific understandingsof pest population dynamics and the roleof natural control mechanisms in order toachieve combined management practicesin a sustainable manner.

Hosting theIPPC 2015 inBerlin togetherwith IAPPS,JKI and IVAwas an outstan-ding honor forthe German So-ciety of PlantProtection and

Plant Health (Deutsche Phytomedizi-nische Gesellschaft, DPG). The sciencepresented in key note lectures, oralpresentations and on posters was ex-cellent and represented the top levelof plant protection science of the time.I was happy to see intense discussionsduring poster sessions and coffeebreaks, highlighting the pleasure ofsharing scientific progress with col-leagues around the world.

One of the major hopes I had was thatIPPC2015 would be an ideal platformfor discussions and for starting coope-rations between young scientists at aninternational and intercontinental level,leading to understanding regional pro-blems of plant protection in differentareas of the world. This hope was fullymet. Indeed, the DPG junior scientistsinitiated round table discussions at theWorld Café and attracted many youngplant protectors, and student reportersposted the highlights of the congress.I was very happy to experience theoutstanding activity of the young sci-entists. IPPC2015 was one of the mostsuccessful plant protection conferences.

Outstanding success is always con-nected with the people responsible forscientific events. I am more than gra-teful and thank the Congress ManagingDirector, Falko Feldmann, for all hiseffort. Furthermore, I thank ClaudiaTonn and the Conventus team for theirhelp and professional organizationskills. And I am indebted to GeoffNorton, Manuelle Tamo and Elvis»Short« Heinrichs of IAPPS for alltheir support for IPPC2015 in Berlin.

Holger B. Deising

Mission possible: food for all through appropriateplant protection - IPPC 2015 ends

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DPG-Chairman and Congress Chair Holger Deising opening the IPPC 2015

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Robust varieties, crop rotation, balancedfertilization, and good soil managementare important elements in this regard. Italso includes – as a last resort – the useof synthetic plant protection products. Ahuge number of alternatives to chemicalcontrol means, including botanicles, plantstrengtheners or beneficial organisms likehyperparasitic insects or nematodes werediscussed, their limitations highlighted,and their integration into IPM strategiesdemonstrated. A forthcoming break-through research area could be identifiedin the microbiom sessions and the work-shops dealing with endophytes and usefulrhizosphere microorganisms for use inagriculture.

It was encouraging to see that all over theplanet healthy plants are seen as a prere-quisite for overcoming hunger and forfeeding the world today and tomorrow.Production of healthy plants requires goodpractice in agriculture, in particular inplant breeding, plant protection, and cropmanagement. Bearing in mind the wholefood chain, there is also a need to minimizefood losses and food waste. In respect ofthe latter, governments have already initi-

ated national campaigns directed at con-sumers.

Pests, diseases, and due to global warming,invasive species will continue to grow inimportance. But, as the delegates wereconvinced, all problems can be overcomeby sharing knowledge and expertise toadvance science, and by networking withcolleagues around the world like it hasbeen practized during this congress. Theimportance of networking has been poin-ted out by the young scientist’s worldcafé, the student reporters, the scientificsocieties´ meetings, and lectures concernedwith the integration of education. Theseexcellent initiatives pointed out that sci-entific civil societies can be a decisivenucleus for the interaction of research,extension services, administration, andindustry.

The DPG thanks all delegates for coming– we are looking forward to meeting themin Hayderabad in 2019.

Falko Feldmann,Congress Managing Director

Mission possible …

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The DPG Junior Scientists invited to aWorld Café round table discussion at theIPPC 2015. Participants from all over theworld came together and joined at threedifferent tables, each table representing adifferent topic related to plant protection.After introducing themselves they ex-changed their opinions on the specifictopic. After 15 minutes, they had to moveon to the next table/topic.

DPG Junior Scientists hosted the discussionon the first topic addressing the role ofjunior scientists in future plant protection.They described their own actual situationand the difficulties they are facing day byday and in general. Junior scientists, espe-cially from developing countries, statedthat it is difficult to get traveling funds toparticipate in international conferences.However, the continuous communicationbetween international colleagues and theestablishment of networks were seen asvery important. According to a young sci-entist it is very helpful to have a mentorwho supports you and introduces you intoexisting networks. The participantswhished that the contact persist beyondthe time of a conference. New media plat-forms may provide a good opportunity toensure a lasting exchange.

Young Scientist’s World Café

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the second round table discussedquite controversially the use of syn-thetic plant protection agents …

and the third topic focussed onglobal food security through know-ledge exchange …

ippc2015.blogspot.de/2015/08/welcome-to-

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IPPAD: An Award of Recognition esta-blished by the Governing Board of theInternational Association for the PlantProtection SciencesThe Governing Board (GB) of the Interna-

tional Association for the Plant ProtectionSciences (IAPPS) has established the In-ternational Plant Protection Award of Dis-tinction (IPPAD) to honor individuals andteams who have made significant contri-

butions to plant protection on an internati-onal basis and who otherwise have servedwith distinction in advancing the cause ofplant protection sciences.

*Team Bowman

International Plant Protection Award of Distinction (IPPAD)

Congress conduct:

Holger B. Deising – DPG (CongressChair), Falko Feldmann – DPG (CongressManaging Director), Claudia Tonn, AnneBrüche, Lisa-Marie Beyer, Conventus(Local Organisers)

Steering Committee & Program Com-mittee:

Klaus Stenzel – DPG (Chair), Georg F.Backhaus – JKI, Cordula Gattermann –JKI (Excursions & Events), Volker Koch-Achelpöhler – IVA (Industrial Exhibiti-on), Geoff Norton – IAPPS, Elvis A.»Short« Heinrichs – IAPPS, GerhardGündermann – IAPPS/JKI, ReinhardKunze – FU; Bernd Holtschulte – DPG,Carmen Büttner – HU, Marlene Diek-mann GIZ/ATSAF, Stephan Winter –

DSMZ, Jens Jacob – JKI, Peter Zwerger– JKI, Manuele Tamo – IAPPS,Richard Sikora – IAPPS, Daniel Neuhoff– University Bonn;

Sponsors:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

DFG, Deutsche PhytomedizinischeGesellschaft e.V., Bayer CropScienceDeutschland GmbH, CropLife Internati-onal, Monsanto Agrar DeutschlandGmbH, Horizon Scientific Press.

Driving forces:

1200 presenting authors150 Session, Workshop and ExcursionChairs40 technical supporters12 Student Reporters of the DPG JuniorScientists,

Special thanks go to our colleaguesE. A. Heinrichs, Geoff Norton and Ma-nuele Tamo (IAPPS)

We would do it again !

DPG thanks for a great event:

Geoff Norton, Brhane Gebrekidan*, Rangaswamy Muniappan*, John Bowman, Jörg Huber, Anthony Youdeowei, Short Heinrichs*Andreas von Tiedemann, Amer Fayad*, David Bergvinson, Richard Sikora, Zenrong Zhu (accepting for K.L. Heong)

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»Today, the world is awash in cereals andprices have decreased rapidly during the lastthree years. Enlightened policies, appropriateinvestments in research and technologicalchange and better utilization of the currentlyunderutilized productive capacity, are likelyto result in continued increases in globalfood production sufficient to sustain a long-term trend of falling but more volatile realfood prices. The mission is certainly possible.Increasing food production is necessary butnot sufficient for food security. To be food

secure, households must have access to thequantity and kinds of food needed for ahealthy and productive life. Appropriatepolicies along with public and private invest-ments are needed to enhance low-incomepeople’s purchasing power or food productioncapacity. Considering both the supply anddemand sides, we will achieve food securityfor all in the foreseeable future.«

Per Pinstrup-Anderson,Cornell-University, Ithaca, USA

»Gene- and biotechnology-driven approachesto durable pathogen resistance in crops willbe one of the most important factors to fulfillour mission: food for all. Broad-spectrum,quantitative pathogen resistance is of highimportance to plant breeders due to its dura-bility. It is usually controlled by multiplequantitative trait loci and challenging tohandle in breeding practice. Knowing aboutthe underlying genes would allow its moretargeted utilization by allele introgressions.With the available omics tools and data ofcrops and of its major fungal pathogens athand we are now enabled to functionally

address genes for defense and attack on bothsides of plantpathogen interactions at a ge-nome-wide scale. Identify genes for race-nonspecific resistance combined with a func-tionalgenomics approach based on genome-wide transcript profiling and transientinducedgene silencing, association- and Meta-QTLmapping plus analysis of copy-number vari-ation: promising biotechnology for tailoredbreeding in the future.«

Patrick Schweitzer,IPK Gatersleben, DE

»The three-letter acronym IPM has beenaround for over fifty years and now not onlyguides research and extension in pest ma-nagement, markets pesticides and is claimedto be undertaken by many growers, it evenresonates with public perceptions and politi-cians. Whether or not IPM programmes aresustainable in the longer term under theconflicting stresses and strains of the modernagricultural environment is debateable: Anypest crisis will ensure rapid changes inpractice and adoption of technologies, which

mitigate the short term financial stressescaused; however, regression to formerpractices tends to follow once a crisis haspassed. Changing climate will impact on pestabundance and distribution and the effective-ness of biological control in complex ways.For many systems the future of pest manage-ment practice will require a change to land-scape or areawide approaches.«

Myron Zalucki,University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

»The world will have to feed 9 billion peopleby 2050. Considering that fact, Food Securityand Nutrition of a growing world populationis one of the highest priorities for internationaldevelopment cooperation. In addition to abetter distribution of food, eliminating hungerwill also require increasing agricultural pro-duction in an ecologically, economically andsocially sustainable way. Implementing ofdevelopment- oriented agriculture whichfosters agricultural investments and providesan income for the rural poor. Including vul-

nerable groups is a crucial part in this processof transforming agriculture. Issues such aspromoting rural development, developingpolicies and standards for sustainability, themarketintegration of smallholder farmers,context-specific sustainable agriculture andthe empowerment of women and youth aredecisive for the mission.«

Stephan Krall,GIZ, Germany

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Meeting - Discussing - Networking: IPPC 2015

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Social Gathering - Understanding - Appreciation: IPPC 2015

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Interview by Heike Pannwitt & SabineAndert (University of Rostock) withGeoff Norton

The day started with Patrick Schweizer,an expert in biotechnology, as a keynotespeaker with impressive information aboutfunctional genomics approaches for durable

pathogen resistance. His work reveals as-tonishing examples of the innovative cha-racter of plant protection. Nevertheless, italso became clear in this section that besi-des genetic resources, traditional breedingstrategies still contribute significantly todurable crop protection.

From many discussions in the World Caféit became clear that knowledge transferand networking across disciplines are thekey issues to develop future plant protectionstrategies. Those key issues were alsoemphasized by Mr. Geoff Norton, the Pre-sident of the International Association ofthe Plant Protection Sciences (IAPPS).

Interview by Sebastian Streit & Alexan-der Pfaff (University of Göttingen) withPer Pinstrup-Andersen

Per Pinstrup-Andersen pointed out threepriorities for future action in his keynotespeech: Large-scale investments in ruralinfrastructure, expansion of public invest-ment in agricultural research and enhancedpolicy incentives for the private sector toinvest in sustainable agriculture.

Junior Scientists: Dear Mr. Pinstrup-Andersen, an often-discussed topic is whe-ther food distribution is indeed a big chal-lenge? Is this issue increasing or decrea-sing?

Per Pinstrup-Andersen: The big problemis that many people have too much foodand many people have too little. In theorybut not in practice, food could be movedfrom those having too much to those whohave too little. However, this does not solvethe actual problems. The real problem ispoverty and low productivity in smallholderagriculture. Farmers living in low income

countries need to increase their yields andincomes to elevate their supply and improvetheir own food security. Higher productivityin poor countries will moreover decreaseprices for food as the unit cost of produc-tion decreases. We already know this oc-curred during the green revolution - peoplecould suddenly allow themselves thingslike sending their children to school orbuilding houses. Production should there-fore be increased wherever possible. Thisdoes not mean that we do not need trade.Some parts in the world just cannot producewhat they need: It would for instance beineffective for Denmark to produce bananasas they can be produced somewhere elsemore efficiently. On the other hand, Sin-gapore imports virtually all its food. Ho-wever, that is fine as they have other incomesources. Whether it is feasible or not de-pends on the country and the situation inthe country.

Junior Scientists: You have stressed theneed for biotechnologies as part of a wi-despread solution to achieve food security.We are facing serious protest against newbiotechnologies in European countries.How can we create a more open-minded,a less ideologydriven view on these tech-niques?

Per Pinstrup-Andersen: Europe will notstarve if it fails to introduce modern tech-niques into agriculture. We can afford topay what it costs to produce food usingtraditional means. Still, Europe is becomingnon-competitive and both farmers andconsumers are foregoing opportunities foreconomic and food security gains. It willbe difficult to produce food at lower costs

while protecting the environment if it re-fuses to adopt modern sciences. I recentlydiscovered an advertisement for Himalayansalt. The label on it said that it does notcontain GMO. Guess which salt was soldthe most: Indeed the salt with the label. Iam worried about the widespread ignoranceabout basic biology. GMOs in salt?? Notlikely! We have to be careful that peopledo not develop a fear against anythingmodern used in agriculture. Using GMOshas been studied in detail. These resultswere recently described in a meta-analysisby my college Matin Qaim showing verystrong positive effects using GMO. Weneed to get the media involved in our re-search in the upcoming years to informthe public.

Junior Scientists: In your life, you haveachieved a lot of things young scientistscan only dream of. What would you re-commend to young people? What was yourmotivation back then when you were astudent?

Per Pinstrup-Andersen: I don’t have ahigh school degree. I left school afterseventh grade and worked on farms for anumber of years. Then I went to the uni-versity. But it was never my intention togo into academia. My feeling is, that ifyou want to be a good scientist, you shouldspend time outside academia to accumulateexperiences. One thing that helped me alot was that I had mentors along the way:people, who believed in me and openeddoors for me. I am very thankful for thatand I try to open doors for young people.Equally important: You have to work likehell.

IPPC Day 2: Tradition and Innovation

IPPC Day 1: Challenges

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We had the oppurtunity to meet GeoffNorton for an interview.

Junior Scientists: How important is it forresearchers and stakeholders to link tradi-tion and innovation?

Geoff Norton: Wow, that is a big issue. Ithink that there is not enough done. Theimportance is the understanding of the fulldimensions of the problem. So, an ento-mologist would see the insect problem andwork on population dynamics in detail,but he would ignore what the farmerswould do and are interested in. It is impor-tant to identify research priorities in terms

of what the problem is. In terms of inno-vation, they have to take place like smart-phones. But the important thing is to iden-tify of how does that innovation fit? Thereare only very few people, who are able todo so. That’s a big issue. In Australia forexample, a lot of people who are workingin plant protection go into molecular bio-logy. That’s the new thing because of it’shigh profile; working in the field is notseen as attractive. There are less peoplegoing into the field and who can identifypest, diseases and weeds.

Junior Scientists: What is the future chal-lenge for plant protection worldwide?

Geoff Norton: This is a big question. Theintegration of how thing are changing. Forexample climate change. How flexible canwe be in terms of changing scenarios andfunding? Flexibility is the key thing in thefuture. Farmers must be flexible, if thereare new problems arising.

Junior Scientists: What kind of output doyou expect from the IPPC?

Geoff Norton: Well, a better understandingof the multidiscipline complexity. Thereare a lot of people spending a lot of researchtime working out monitoring techniquesbut when you actually looking at what ishappening, there is very little happeningin terms of scouting. Well, it all goes backto the integration of very specific topicsto understand the whole systems of agri-culture.

Junior Scientists: What would you recom-mend to young researchers in their earlysteps of their career?

Geoff Norton: Geoff Norton: First, whatthey are interested in the most. What theyget funding for. Well, I’d like to solve thereal problems. There is quite a lot of workthat is under the plant protection label,which probably it too theoretical. But fin-ding out what the real problems are, I gota lot of satisfaction, when working on realproblems rather than theoretical problems.The theory of ecology is one thing butpractical experience in your research fieldis important.

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We are the DPG-student reporters:

Sebastian Streit & Alexander Pfaff(University of Göttingen),

Heike Pannwitt & Sabine Andert(University of Rostock),

Verena Schieritz & Roman Blümel(University of Bonn),

Rania Saleh (University Göttingen)& Katrin Scherer (University Bonn),

Muhammad Awais Zahid(University of Hohenheim)& Bianca Bohnke (University of Bonn).

Ali Al Masri & Marlene Leucker(University of Bonn)

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Meet the team of DPG Junior Scien-tists at Facebook:

Find the blog of our reports here:

Student Reporters

www.facebook.com/groups/dpgnachwuchs

ippc2015.blogspot.de

Our mission was to go beyond the wallsof our classrooms and laboratories byimmersing in practices of scientific jour-nalism. We critically shape our desire toinfluence global debates by searchingfor opinions and facts that tell impactfulstories. Journalism is a tool to buildcontext and community around complex,

scietifically and politically charged sub-jects through meaningful stories. Herewe worked with the conference bodyand mission-driven organizations forinvestigative topics and event projectsduring IPPC 2015, covering global mee-tings and workshops.



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Interview by Verena Schieritz & RomanBlümel (University of Bonn) with MyronZalucki

As today’s plenary keynote speaker Myron

P. Zalucki, professor at the University of

Queensland, gave the initial talk. His basic

and applied research focuses on plant-

insect interactions, in particular on Lepi-

doptera. Subsequent to his opening speech,

we were given the exceptional opportunity

to interview Prof. Zalucki for the IPPC

student-reporter blog:

Junior Scientists: The slogan of this years’IPPC is »Mission possible - Food for allthrough appropriate plant protection«. Doyou think IPM strategies are a promisingapproach to achieve this goal - even interms of climate change - and why?

Myron Zalucki: IPM is an approach forpest management, its idea is to minimizethe pest pressure and maximize yieldswithout disrupting life, environment anduniverse. All IPM systems have to be awareof the valuable impacts of climate - insome parts of the world even more than inothers. It’s a system that always has toadapt to the given circumstances, becauseagriculture is always developing. Indeed,food security is the major goal to achievein future - therefore agricultural productionsystems are one part, as well as efficientpolitical systems to ensure that those sys-tems are admitted and can be applied.

Junior Scientists:Where might be limita-tions of IPM?

Myron Zalucki: The limitation of anyapproach is always its implementation.The issue is how do we change the waypeople approach agriculture and manage-ment, so that they see a benefit in doingthings differently.

Junior Scientists: Which steps are mostimportant to take within the implemen-tation of IPM all over the world?

Myron Zalucki: Encourage education -the ability to question knowledge - is tomention first, as well as the obligation toget researchers and research institutes moreinvolved with local farmers to really detectthe problems they are faced with. Otheraspects are changes in politics and industry.The problem in politics is that it’s tooopinion- driven and short-term for exten-sive agricultural changes, that take longerperiods to be established effectively.

Junior Scientists: Do you assume thattodays plant protection practices are ableto adequately monitor, identify and reacton alternating pest situations induced bya change of the environment? That is whatyou do, but is that also generally done?

Myron Zalucki: Growers in the field thatdetect unknown pests/diseases will alertresearchers of these changes. Afterwardspeople can map changes over the yearsand create huge databases, which I gene-rally would advice. In addition to this, wealso need policy makers, who enable newresearch projects.

Junior Scientists: In your talk you brought

the example of GMO’s introduced in thecotton belt in the US resulting in a decreaseof Monarch butterflies. Are we capable ofidentifying changes and their putative ef-fects on this scale?

Myron Zalucki: The sad part is we reallyshould have been able to foresee this aheadof time, but we didn’t. That is one of thebig challenges for researchers and policymakers. When a new technique to copewith diseases is established, we have tothink about the effects it has. A measureof how good science is, is whether it canmake predictions over time or not. We haveto keep this in regard for future projects.

From Myron Zalucki’s talk and the inter-

view with him it became clear, that we

need to adapt to a changing world, chan-

ging people, landscapes and agriculture.

To really progress, we have to be open-

minded regarding revolutionary techniques

that could help us to ensure food security

on earth and in the same way pay enough

attention to possible risks that might come

with these techniques.

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Interview by Rania Saleh (UniversityGöttingen) & Katrin Scherer (UniversityBonn)

As the German Corporation for Internati-onal Cooperation (GIZ) work seemed tobe very exciting, we wanted to know moreabout it, as well as how we as young sci-entists could support improving quality oflife throughout the world via crop protec-tion. Therefore, we interviewed Dr. Krall,Dr. Jörg Lohmann and Tanja Thekla Pick-ardt (all GIZ).

Junior Scientists: What is the role ofscience in developing extension programs?

Pickardt & Lohmann: First of all therole of science is to work with privateextension services to coach trainers to workin foreign countries and give advices tofarmers. The role of science in developingextension programs has recently changedfrom research for development into re-search in development. Linear scienceforgetting the practical work causes moredamage than help. Finally, extension ser-vices influence the research to be morepractical.

Junior Scientists: Do you think that themisconception towards crop protection inGermany is also wide spread in developingcountries?

Krall: There is a broad spectrum of de-veloping countries between which one hasto differentiate. In some African countriesfor instance, there is a lack of plant protec-tion and fertilization. In such countries itis not always wise to supply farmers withpesticides as they are not trained to usethem and so their availability could bedangerous for people’s health. In variousother countries, pesticides are applied butthey are not used in the prescribed manner.In such countries, training people seemsto be the better option than switching toorganic farming.

Junior Scientists: There are many confe-rence contributions from developing coun-tries that deal with biocontrol agents. Doyou have any suggestions concerning thisstrong demand? Did it increase in the lastfew years?

Pickardt & Lohmann: We can verify thatthere are many contributions dealing withbiocontrol agents. Consuming productscontaminated with aflatoxin for instance,may lead to various diseases such as livercancer. Biocontrol agents can be one ap-proach to fight aflatoxin producing pests.(Workshop Tuesday evening, »AflatoxinPrevention in Sub Saharan Africa-Chal-lenges and Practical Experience«). Organicfarming is not always cheaper, not alwayseasier, but can be an opportunity.

Junior Scientists: Transfer of knowledgebetween research and practical farm workseems to be problematic in many regions.What do you suggest to improve this pro-blem?

Pickardt & Lohmann: First of all, re-search findings often end with conclusionsdirected to other scientists lacking theinformation relevant for practical applica-tion (farmers). All agricultural actors areplaying a role and therefore all players ininnovation systems need to be considered.A good example for supporting knowledgetransfer is the school for innovation, whichimproves the daily living conditions inAfrica. For developed countries the valueof an innovation might not be significant,but it could be a solution for developingregions. Keep this in mind!

Junior Scientists: How can young scien-tists contribute to a better understandingof crop protection in society and supportsolving actual and practical issues?

Krall, Pickardt & Lohmann: The pointis to be open-minded and to get your ownimpressions. Furthermore, practical deve-

lopment cooperations and NGO’s are im-portant to break narrow- minded opinions.If this is successful then we can get rid ofthe DDT burden for example. It is yourturn (i.e. Junior Scientists) to come up withnew opportunities, your time to changethings, your time to be open minded. Tal-king to people from the society to clarifysome misunderstandings is very important!From Myron Zalucki’s talk and the inter-view with him it became clear, that weneed to adapt to a changing world, chan-ging people, landscapes and agriculture.To really progress, we have to be open-minded regarding revolutionary techniquesthat could help us to ensure food securityon earth and in the same way pay enoughattention to possible risks that might comewith these techniques.

Junior Scientists: If we, as young scien-tists, want to support international interac-tion, how could we accomplish this? Whatwould be the first step?

Krall, Pickardt & Lohmann: Work forGIZ! Our suggestions would be to joininternational student organisations, keepingcontact to international partner universitiesand participating in big international con-ferences like the IPPC or the Tropentag tomake your own experience! Coming backto that chocolate bar story: The Mars com-pany is very interested in producing a niceand tasty chocolate bar. For achieving this,they support ongoing research on rice - soin a wider understanding: A chocolate bardid indirectly improve agricultural deve-lopment. By the way, the GIZ offers op-portunities for internships and theses foryoung scientists!

IPPC Day 4: How can a chocolate bar improve agricultural development?

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5.10.2015

21.2.2017

8.9.2015

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11.11.2015

17.9.2015

9.3.2016

23.6.2015

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Kartoffel

Raps

Schädlinge in Getreide

Krankheiten an Getreide und Mais

Gemüse und Zierpflanzen

Heil-, Duft- und Gewürzpflanzen

Phytomedizin im urbanen Grün

Waldschutz

Vorratsschutz

Phytomedizin in den Tropen und Subtropen

Pflanzenschutztechnik

Biometrie und Versuchsmethodik

Viruskrankheiten der Pflanzen

Phytobakteriologie

Mykologie

Wirt-Parasit-Beziehungen

Populationsdynamik und Epidemiologie der Schaderreger

Herbologie

Nematologie

Wirbeltiere

Biologische Bekämpfung von Pflanzenkrankheiten

Nutzarthropoden und Entomopathogene Nematoden

Die Arbeitskreise der DPGsind wissenschaftlicheForen für DPG-Mitgliederund Nicht-Mitglieder, aufdenen aktuelle Forschungs-ergebnisse oder Erfahrungs-berichte aus der Praxis aus-getauscht und diskutiertwerden. Die Teilnahme anden Arbeitskreisen der DPGist kostenlos.

An den jährlichen Arbeits-kreistagungen nehmen zwi-schen 15 und 120 Personenteil. Insgesamt treffen sichso jährlich mehr als 1400Wissenschaftler aus demgesamten Fachbereich derPhytomedizin. Organisiertwerden die Tagungen vonden Arbeitskreisleiterinnenund Arbeitskreisleitern.

Wir würden uns freuen, wennwir bei den Teilnehmern derArbeitskreise Interesse an derDPG und einer Mitgliedschaftwecken könnten. Wir ermuti-gen Doktoranden, sich demwissenschaftlichen Forumzu stellen und ihre Ergeb-nisse, auch wenn sie vor-läufig sind, mit den Kolle-gen in den Arbeitskreisenzu diskutieren. Alle Teilneh-mer sind eingeladen, ihrewissenschaftlichen Beiträgedem Arbeitskreisleiter alsAbstracts zur Verfügung zustellen.

Nur so können wir nachaußen die Aktivitäten derArbeitskreise darstellen undfür die Teilnahme werben.


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