Under the farm to fork strategy, part of the European Green Deal, the EU has set itself a double target: a 50 % reduction in the overall use of and risk from chemical plant protection products, and a 50% reduction in the use of more hazardous ones by 2030. The proposal tabled by the EC on 22 June 2022 would replace the 2009 sustainable use directive and has the following objectives: reduce the use and risk of chemical pesticides, in particular the more hazardous ones; increase the application of integrated pest management (IPM); increase the use of less hazardous and non-chemical alternatives to chemical pesticides for pest control; improve the availability of monitoring data; improve the implementation of legal provisions across all Member States to improve policy effectiveness and efficiency; promote adoption of new technologies, such as precision farming that makes use of space data and services (including geospatial localisation techniques).

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Infoclip: Sustainable use of pesticides

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Field fertilization, Poland, 10 shots

Images of a farmer monitoring her fields via a field management application on her ipad, Spain, 11 shots

Drone view of farm, Belgium

Sign saying Ferme de Warelles

Sign saying Carbon stocking in the ground

Sign saying here grows barley for 100% Belgian beer

Example of Integrated Pest Management: falcons are invited to stay in the nest in order to keep the field mouse population down rendering rat poison unecessary, 7 shots

Legumes and clover contain protein that are grown without pesticides to feed livestock, rendering the import of feed from South America unnecessary, 3 shots

Livestock feeding, 3 shots

Field were rape seed and broad beans are grown in parallel; the broad beans wither first and mults into the ground acting a s a natural fertilizer, 3 shots

Blossoming mustard field being pollinated by the bees from nearby bee hive, 3 shots