Annie Sigwalt

Groupe ESA - Higher Education and Research Institution in Agriculture · Social Science Research Laboratory (LARESS)

Public policy reforms and consumer requirements for the environment have raised awareness among winegrowers of the need to review their farming practices. This renewal of production aims for high economic, environmental, and social performance, as well as product quality. Therefore, it often assumes changes in farming practices due to adoption of a...

By summarizing research projects performed over the past 10 years on grasslands in cattle production, we seek to understand the way of farming with grassland and cattle farmers' way of thinking about it. Based on the combined perspective of sociologists and animal scientists, the cross-analysis we realized reveals that the local context is the main...

L’article vise à montrer l’espace social qui se dessine dans le récit d’agriculteurs vendéens en agriculture de conservation s’exprimant sur les bonnes pratiques agricoles à mettre en œuvre dans le cadre de leur « souci du sol ». À partir d’entretiens collectifs avec des agriculteurs et s’appuyant sur la sémiotique narrative de Greimas, il rend com...

There is an urgent need for agriculture in general, and for viticulture in particular, to reduce their impacts on the environment. Doing so requires an approach that supports transitioning to more environmentally friendly practices. Involving farmers and agricultural advisors is key to lifting technical, economic, and social barriers to this transi...

Malgré de multiples services rendus aux territoires et aux élevages reconnus et soutenus, les surfaces en prairie s’érodent depuis plusieurs décennies, en particulier en zone d’élevage bovin laitier de plaine. Partant du constat qu’il existe localement des situations de maintien voire d’augmentation de ces surfaces durant les 15 dernières années, c...

Research projects carried out by the Angers School of Agriculture (ESA) have analysed the range of ways in which farmers in the Grand Ouest area of France think about and "implement" grasslands. Several groups of factors help shape foraging approaches: pedoclimatic conditions, the professional environment, and the presence of communication networks...

In the current debate on agriculture-environment relations, public policy reforms and the increasing environmental demands of consumers enhanced the awareness of the importance of changing their agricultural practices in order to meet environmental requirements and improve products quality among farmers and in particular among vintners. For vintner...

Applications, bases de données, équipements connectés… : l’agriculture s’inscrit sans conteste dans le mouvement de numérisation du monde. Au-delà des enjeux technologiques majeurs, ce phénomène a, pour les agriculteurs, l’exploitation, pour la profession agricole et pour les filières agricoles et agroalimentaires, des conséquences tout à la fois é...

Despite a constant decline in grassland areas in the last decades at regional and national scales in France, in particular on lowland dairy cattle areas, grasslands could have been maintained locally. The aim of this paper is to study the reasons of grassland maintenance crossing animal sciences and sociology on the territory (3 case studies) and f...

For at least ten years now, grasslands have been experiencing a revival of interest, due to their multiple functions: grasslands in the forage system limit the cost of animal food; they are an asset in the quality of products issued from pastures; they play numerous roles regarding biodiversity, ecosystemic functions, and landscape. Nevertheless, i...

Poster related to the conference paper with the same title

In March 2013, 40 leading experts from across the world gathered at a workshop, hosted by the European Commission, Directorate General Joint Research Centre, Italy, to discuss the multiple benefits of soil carbon as part of a Rapid Assessment Process (RAP) project commissioned by SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment). This col...

AbstractIn this chapter, soil organic matter (SOM) benefits will be considered from two different perspectives: (i) the scientific perception of ‘SOM benefits’ between the 18th century and today; and (ii) how various contemporary religions and societies, including farmers of Western cultures, perceive soil and SOM benefits.Perceptions of the benefi...

In this chapter, soil organic matter (SOM) benefits will be considered from two different perspectives: (i) the scientific perception of 'SOM benefits' between the 18th century and today; and (ii) how various contemporary religions and societies, including farmers of Western cultures, perceive soil and SOM benefits. Perceptions of the benefits of S...

Pendant trois ans, une vingtaine d’organisations de la recherche et du conseil en agriculture se sont associées dans le projet CasDar « Conseillers demain » sur la question suivante : quelles ressources internes et externes pour aider les conseillers en agronomie amenés à accompagner une réduction drastique du recours aux pesticides ? Un groupe-mét...

In this chapter, soil organic matter (SOM) benefits will be considered from two different perspectives: (i) the scientific perception of 'SOM benefits' between the 18th century and today; and (ii) how various contemporary religions and societies, including farmers of Western cultures, perceive soil and SOM benefits. Perceptions of the benefits of S...

Le projet consiste à faire émerger les conceptions des agriculteurs sur les sols et leur usage, et à appréhender la façon dont ces conceptions peuvent s’articuler à celles, plus savantes, d’experts agronomes ou de chercheurs en sciences du sol. Après avoir fait apparaître en quoi les sols ne sont pas, à proprement parler, les mêmes entités pour les...

Résumé Limiter la dégradation des sols, dans l’objectif d’un développement agricole durable, nécessite de comprendre comment les agriculteurs conçoivent et caractérisent les sols de leurs exploitations. Une enquête a été menée auprès d’agriculteurs afin de saisir, à partir de leurs discours, leurs conceptions des sols. Cette enquête a pris la forme...

The need to mainstream biodiversity into agricultural activities has been advocated for some time. Several approaches have been described, ranging from plot to farm or landscape scale and involving different practices. We studied the development of a biodiversity enhancing project in French vineyards based on agronomic and sociological data. We con...

Séminaire de fin de programme DIVA 2

Action publique, Agriculture & Biodiversité : cas de l’AOC Saumur-Champigny

Dans le contexte particulier d’une AOC viticole engagée dans une initiative collective de plantation de haies en faveur de la biodiversité, ce projet étudie sous divers angles les interactions entre les viticulteurs, le paysage et la biodiversité ordinaire. Le territoire englobant l’ensemble des terres AOC réparties sur 9 communes a été décrit en é...

Biodiversity and its interactions with viticulture in a wine-growing area in the west of France : case study of a local initiative in a controlled origin appellation (AOC Saumur-Champigny)

The role fo farmers with a conservation program. the exemple of the OGAF - local land improvement project) in flooded meadows of Anjou The introduction of an environnemental measure which aims to protect in the corne crake meadows liable to be flooded brings news responsabilities to local farmers : the upkeep of an environnemental sensitive area. T...