Seminar: One crop health for sustainable crop protection
At this seminar, Professor Paul Neve from the Department of Agroecology at Aarhus University in Denmark will give a weed ecologist’s perspective on the need for re-framing crop protection.
Date: 19 November 2026
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Venue: Tammsalen, Ecology Centre, Ulls väg 16 or Zoom
Organiser: Department of Crop Production Ecology
Location: Online, Uppsala
How can we design productive, resilient cropping systems that are less reliant on pesticides? One Crop Health applies a One Health perspective to crop protection, recognising that plant health and agroecosystem health are inseparable.
Working across a network of 100 farms in Denmark and the UK, the project brings together agroecology, pest, weed and pathogen biology, data science and AI to develop a new perspective for agro-eco-tech in crop protection. At its heart is the integration of prevention, detection, prediction and control.
Agroecological approaches aim to prevent pest, pathogen and weed problems by harnessing biodiversity, ecological interactions and natural regulatory processes. Advanced sensing, molecular diagnostics, AI and predictive modelling offer new opportunities to detect emerging threats and targeting interventions. Novel biological, genomic and engineering technologies provide opportunities for precision and spatially explicit crop protection.
This seminar will give a weed ecologist’s perspective on the need for re-framing crop protection, exploring how integrating ecological understanding with technological innovation can help transform crop protection from reactive intervention towards the proactive management of agroecosystem health.