Triantafyllidis Vassilios, Mavroeidis Antonios, Kosma Chariklia, Karabagias Ioannis Konstantinos, Zotos Anastasios, Kehayias George, Beslemes Dimitrios, Roussis Ioannis, Bilalis Dimitrios, Economou Garyfalia, Kakabouki Ioanna
Department of Business Administration of Food & Agricultural Enterprises, University of Patras, Agrinio, Greece.
Department of Crop Science, Laboratory of Agronomy, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Water Air Soil Pollut. 2023;234(2):94. doi: 10.1007/s11270-023-06125-x. Epub 2023 Jan 30.
Climate change mitigation is a major concern of the European Union (EU). In 2019, the EU presented the European Green Deal (EGD), a new environmental strategy that aimed to neutralize climate change by 2050. Within its policy areas, the EGD included the Farm to Fork (F2F) Strategy that aims to reduce pesticide use by 50%, by 2030. This reduction was proposed due to the supposed negative effects of pesticides on the environment and its biota. Among the different pesticide groups (herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, etc.) though, herbicides are perhaps the hardest to reduce. This review aimed to shed light to any factors that might hinder the reduction of herbicide use; thus, the implementation of the Farm to Fork Strategy underlines some of its weaknesses and highlights key points of a viable herbicide reduction-related policy framework. The literature suggests that integrated weed management (IWM) consists perhaps the most suitable approach for the reduction of herbicides in the EU. Even though it is too soon to conclusively assess F2F, its success is not impossible.
减缓气候变化是欧盟（EU）的一个主要关切问题。2019年，欧盟提出了欧洲绿色协议（EGD），这是一项新的环境战略，旨在到2050年实现气候变化中和。在其政策领域内，欧洲绿色协议包括从农场到餐桌（F2F）战略，该战略旨在到2030年将农药使用量减少50%。提出这一减少量是因为农药被认为会对环境及其生物群产生负面影响。然而，在不同的农药类别（除草剂、杀菌剂、杀虫剂等）中，除草剂可能是最难减少使用量的。本综述旨在阐明可能阻碍除草剂使用量减少的任何因素；因此，从农场到餐桌战略的实施凸显了其一些弱点，并突出了一个可行的与除草剂减少相关的政策框架的关键点。文献表明，综合杂草管理（IWM）可能是欧盟减少除草剂使用量的最合适方法。尽管现在就对从农场到餐桌战略进行最终评估还为时过早，但其成功并非不可能。
