Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 1, 20126 Milan, Italy.
European Observatory on Sustainable Agriculture (OPERA), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Via Emilia Parmense 84, 29122 Piacenza, Italy.
Sci Total Environ. 2022 Nov 10;846:157285. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157285. Epub 2022 Jul 18.
As echoed in the European Green Deal and Farm to Fork strategy, the EU agricultural policy has clear objectives of improving the sustainability (environmental, economic and social) of farm productions. The environmental goals are supported by promotion of organic farming and the responsible management of inputs such as fertilisers and pesticides. In this framework, there is a need is to provide farmers with tools to evaluate the best options for reducing environmental impact and measure performances in improving the sustainability of their productions. This paper introduces MIMERA, a GIS easy-to-use tool for the sustainable use of pesticides at farm level. MIMERA was developed in the framework of the Train-Agro project funded by the Lombardia Region (Italy), in the framework of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development Programme (EAFRD). The main goal is to help professional pesticide users to identify the best pest management strategies by comparing the environmental risk of authorized commercial formulations of pesticides, identifying parcel most at risk within the farm boundaries and suggesting the most appropriate risk mitigation measures for the prevention of surface water contamination. Finally, MIMERA offers the opportunity to track the risk trend of the selected pest management strategies utilized during years. The proposed methodology and structure of MIMERA are described along with underlying data and algorithms are described. An example of its application by considering different pest management strategies adopted by farmers in an area characterized by the intensive presence of maize crop in Lombardia Region is presented.
正如欧洲绿色协议和从农场到餐桌战略所反映的那样，欧盟农业政策有明确的目标，即提高农业生产的可持续性（环境、经济和社会）。环境目标得到了有机农业的推广和化肥和农药等投入品的负责任管理的支持。在这一框架内，需要为农民提供工具，以评估减少环境影响的最佳选择，并衡量提高生产可持续性的绩效。本文介绍了 MIMERA，这是一个用于在农场层面可持续使用农药的 GIS 易用工具。MIMERA 是在意大利伦巴第大区资助的 Train-Agro 项目框架内开发的，该项目是欧洲农业农村发展基金（EAFRD）计划的一部分。主要目标是通过比较授权商业农药制剂的环境风险，识别农场边界内最危险的地块，并为防止地表水污染提出最合适的风险缓解措施，帮助专业农药使用者确定最佳的病虫害管理策略。最后，MIMERA 还提供了跟踪所选病虫害管理策略在多年间风险趋势的机会。本文描述了所提出的方法和 MIMERA 的结构，并描述了基础数据和算法。本文还介绍了一个示例，说明了其在伦巴第大区一个以玉米作物密集存在为特征的地区，不同农民采用不同病虫害管理策略的应用情况。
