Background and challenges

Since 2011, breakdown of varietal resistance have occurred frequently. Therefore, an epidemiological monitoring network is needed to monitor these breakdowns in the whole country. In France, this network is based on information collected by a large diversity of actors and on the analysis capacity of INRAE (UR BIOGER). At the moment this network is informal and depends mainly on INRAE resources. The effectiveness and sustainability of this organization is now being questioned in the context of reduction of public resources. 

Objectives 

The EPICO project aims at designing a collective organization of the stripe rust epidemiological monitoring network in order to improve the coordination between members and the network effectiveness. To do so, we will setup a design workshop with the key members of the network to be identified from a map of the epidemiological surveillance network based on the historical analysis of the contribution of each actor to the network and on a qualitative analysis of the strategies of the main actors. The workshop will be fed by description of other networks in animal and plant health management such as the OSCAR grapevine network or the potato late blight network. 

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