Bernard Blum
Bernard Jacques Blum (born September 1, 1938 in Besançon ; † August 13, 2014 in Paris ) was a French agronomist , industrial manager and founding president of the International Biocontrol Manufacturers Association (IBMA). He advocated sustainable development through biological and integrated plant protection with the support of decision-making systems.
Live and act
Bernard Blum first attended school in Besançon and later at the Lycée Henri IV in Paris. He studied agricultural science at the Institut national agronomique Paris Grignon. After successfully completing an entomologist degree in 1963 and a doctorate in tropical agriculture in 1965, he started his professional career at the agricultural research institute IHHO today CIRAD in the Ivory Coast. At the same time, he continued his education at the international graduate business school INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.
In 1972, Blum began his career at Ciba-Geigy (now Novartis and Syngenta) in Basel . For decades he was the responsible entomologist and regional manager for the large crop protection market in the Middle East and Africa . As a regional manager in Africa, he began using decision-making systems; H. technical possibilities for reducing the use of pesticides in cotton crops. His aim was near-natural plant cultivation and plant protection . At the beginning of the 1990s, he and his colleagues founded the Académie du Biocontrôle et de la Protection Biologique Intégrée in France.
Together with friends, he founded the International Biocontrol Manufacturers Association in 1995 , of which he was founding president and later vice president.
In 2008 he initiated the annual ABIM conference within the framework of IBMA, which served to promote new biological products and application technologies.
After leaving Novartis, he founded his own company AGROMETRIX Integrated Crop Management in 2005 . He advocated the re-observance of biodiversity and integrated pest management based on a systemic and preventive approach. Among other things, he began together with manufacturers of meteorological measuring stations with the development of culture-specific computer programs for an early detection of risk situations of infestation of fields by insects and diseases in order to enable more targeted interventions with fewer and alternative means.
In 2008 he became a member of the Académie d'Agriculture de France, where he was responsible for the Principe de précaution and Méthodes biointensives de protection des plantes working groups .
In Europe he dealt with the possible introduction of the sterile insect technology (SIT) within a European and French project (Region Biocontrol Sud-Quest).
He died of a heart attack in 2014.
Honors
- IBMA has been honoring the best innovation in the field of biological crop protection with the Bernard Blum Prize every year since 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernard Blum on the IBMA website
- ^ L'Académie du Biocontrôle on Bernard Blum
- ^ Institute for Agricultural Research
- ^ Academie Agriculture Sections et comités
- ↑ Bernard Blum in Agronomie Asso
- ↑ Bernard Blum Award on the IBMA website ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blum, Bernard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blum, Bernard Jacques |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French phytomedicine agronomist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Besançon |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 2014 |
| Place of death | Paris |