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National Foundation for IPM Education
Pesticide Environmental Stewardship 2005 Report
- Introduction
- PESP Champions
- New PESP Members in 2005
- Biopesticide Demonstration Project
- National Foundation for IPM Education
- IPM in Schools
- Strategic Agricultural Initiative
- Lawns and Environment Initiative
The National Foundation for IPM Education (NFIPME) was founded in 1994 to reduce the use of pesticides that pose unacceptable risks through education. From 1995 – 2005, EPA worked with NFIPME through a series of cooperative agreements, the most recent of which concluded in November 2005. Over this time, NFIPME awarded 79 grants for $2.5 million to promote awareness and adoption of IPM as a means to reduce the risks associated with the use of conventional pesticides. These projects had the common threads of demonstrable risks, high probability of success, leveraging potential, and the potential to be sustainable.
Through PESP grants, NFIPME has helped EPA address specific goals and objectives associated with water and ecosystems. In addition, PESP grants expanded the use of IPM in critical urban areas such as schools in Florida and Arizona and Texas hospitals.
Other PESP grants spread the concept of IPM to vineyards, greenhouses, and urban landscapes. These projects used web-based tools to assist growers on weed management and encouraged IPM in commercial settings such as nurseries and hardware stores.
Noteworthy project accomplishments include:
- reducing pesticide residues in surface water affecting 5.9 million Californians in 4,681 square miles by 5 percent;
- working towards no detectable pesticide residues in 70 percent of U.S. baby food by 2008;
- increasing the use of reduced risk pesticides by 10 percent on over
500,000 acres of crops:
- asparagus (1,000 acres in Michigan - promote forecasting and scouting)
- winegrapes (57,000 acres in California - encourage use of reduced risk chemicals),
- cranberries (35,000 acres - develop and implement IPM practices),
- almonds (480,000 acres in California – reduce the use of dormant sprays),
- cherries (40,000 acres in Michigan – encourage the use of reduced risk chemicals,
- berries (2,000 acres in New York – develop and implement an IPM certification program for berries),
- hops (35,000 acres in Washington – develop information for transition strategy); and
- tomatoes (300,000 acres in California – tomato disease management guide now in use by 800 growers)
- eliminating one spray application of organophosphate or carbamate insecticide on 14,000 acres of Michigan grapes;
- reducing pesticide use by 90 percent in schools in Arizona, Alabama, and Indiana, impacting over one millions students; and
- implementing IPM practices in 450 daycare centers and 200 homes attended by over 25,420 Illinois children.