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News Releases BCPC Award Winners 17 October 2007 In recognition of outstanding service to crop protection in the UK, Dr David Alford and Dr Anne Buckenham were presented with the British Crop Production Council’s Medal award at the XVI IPPC in Glasgow – run in association with IAPPS and the BCPC International Congress and Exhibition. Presenting the Medals at the Agrow Awards dinner, co-hosted by the British Crop Production Council, Hugh Oliver-Bellasis, president of BCPC and chairman of RASE said that while the criteria used for judging the award covered many areas, the important factor was the candidates’ outstanding contribution to the science and practise of crop production and protection in the UK. Dr Alford was described as an outstanding crop protection entomologist, who, over the last four decades had made, and continues to make, major contributions to British and overseas agriculture and horticulture. He began his career at Rothamsted, later joining MAFF as an entomologist. He was instrumental in establishing an EU-funded project on the biocontrol of oilseed rape pests, work that culminated in 2003 with the publication of an important international monograph. Dr Alford has written many scientific papers on crop pests and beneficial insects and is author of several scientific reference books. He has also been associated with the BCPC since the 1970s. Dr Anne Buckenham is director of Policy at the Crop Protection Association that represents manufacturers and distributors of crop protection products. She will shortly have completed 25 years service with the organisation. One of Dr Buckenham’s finest achievements, said Mr Oliver-Bellasis was to lead the team that successfully negotiated the Voluntary Initiative. “The scheme, which promotes the best practice in the use of pesticides, has been a major success for the whole agricultural industry and has put the UK in the lead across Europe. “The initiative has saved the agricultural industry millions of pounds,” he added. “The fact that within the UK there is now a more balanced approach to the use of pesticides, that they are used in a responsible way and that government policy and regulation is more science based, is, in no small measure, due to Dr Buckenham,” concluded Mr Oliver-Bellasis.
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