Measuring the unmeasurable? A method to quantify adoption of Integrated Pest Management practices in temperate arable farming systems

Henry E. Creissen; Philip J. Jones; Richard B. Tranter; Robbie D. Girling; Stephen Jess; Fiona J. Burnett; Michael Gaffney; Fiona S. Thorne; Steven Kildea

doi:10.1002/ps.5428

Measuring the unmeasurable? A method to quantify adoption of Integrated Pest Management practices in temperate arable farming systems

Henry E. Creissen^*, Philip J. Jones, Richard B. Tranter, Robbie D. Girling, Stephen Jess, Fiona J. Burnett, Michael Gaffney, Fiona S. Thorne, Steven Kildea

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Abstract

The impetus to adopt integrated pest management (IPM) practices has re‐emerged in the last decade, mainly as a result of legislative and environmental drivers. However a significant deficit exists in the ability to practically monitor and measure IPM adoption across arable farms; therefore the aim of the project reported here was to establish a universal metric for quantifying adoption of IPM in temperate arable farming. This was achieved by: (a) identifying a set of key activities that contribute to IPM; (b) weighting these in terms of their importance to the achievement of IPM using panels of expert stakeholders in order to create the metric (scoring system from 0‐100 indicating level of IPM practiced); (c) surveying arable farmers in the UK and Ireland about their pest management practices; and (d) measuring level of farmer adoption of IPM using the new metric.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3144-3152
Number of pages	9
Journal	Pest Management Science
Volume	75
Issue number	12
Early online date	29 Mar 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.5428
Publication status	Print publication - Dec 2019

Keywords

IPM metric
IPM score
Integrated Pest Management
Farmer survey
Sustainable agriculture

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Outcomes of the Defra SFI survey on IPM implementation and VI survey on the adoption and use of IPM
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Measuring IPM to inform decisions
Creissen, H. (Speaker)
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Measuring adoption levels of IPM practices on arable farms
Creissen, H. (Speaker)
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Measuring the unmeasurable? A method to quantify adoption of Integrated Pest Management practices in temperate arable farming systems

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Outcomes of the Defra SFI survey on IPM implementation and VI survey on the adoption and use of IPM

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