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Introduction
After 11 years at INRA Colmar through Interreg Projects, I got a permanent position in 2005. From 2007 to 2018 I was the leader of the “Sustainable Agriculture” research team at INRA Colmar, which is associated to a group of ENSAIA-Lorraine University in Nancy, France. My main topic is multi-criteria assessment of sustainability in agriculture. My field of interest is the assessment of cropping system impacts on water, air, soil quality, biodiversity in arable farming. I also have collaboration with the CIRAD on tropical productions (bananas, citrus). Having worked on the development of one of the French currently used environmental assessment method, the INDIGO® method, I also contributed to the development of sustainability assessment methods like MASC and DEXiPM. In parallel I developed
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August 2005 - present
UMR LAE Université Lorrrain INRA
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Publications (205)
The imperative of carbon neutrality requires a drastic, rapid, and sustained reduction in fossil energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The Russia-Ukraine war has led to a major energy crisis, whose end does not seem imminent. The sudden and major increase in energy prices resulting from this crisis has major impacts on many sectors of th...
Biodiversity is a key component of agricultural ecosystems and belongs to one of the exceeded planetary boundaries. In the quest for innovation to mitigate impact, it is essential to have tools to assess the anthropogenic impact on biodiversity. In this study, we developed a new indicator, I-BIO that aimed to predict the impacts of management pract...
Stakeholders involved in actions to reduce the use and the impacts on the environment or human health of pesticides need operational tools to assess crop protection strategies in regard to these impacts. I-Phy3 brings together all improvements introduced since the first version of the indicator to better meet user's needs and requirements of integr...
In response to the sustainability issues that agriculture faces in advanced economies, agroecology has gained increasing relevance in scientific, political, and social debates. This has promoted discussion about transitions to agroecology, which represents a significant advancement. Accordingly, it has become a growing field of research. We reviewe...
Nitrogen plays a major role in agroecosystems as the key nutrient in agricultural production as well as a source of different emissions, which exceed currently planetary boundaries. N losses, conditioned by both pedoclimatic conditions and agricultural strategies (e.g. rotations, fertilisation), predominantly take the form of ammonia (NH3) volatili...
Agriculture’s primary function is the production of food, feed, fibre and fuel for the fast-growing world population. However, it also affects human health and ecosystem integrity. Policymakers make policies in order to avoid harmful impacts. How to assess such policies is a challenge. In this paper, we propose a conceptual framework to help evalua...
Increasing the levels of ecosystem services that contribute to agricultural production (ES) is a challenge for the sustainability of agricultural systems. Agricultural advisors lack low-data operational approaches for assessing ES and knowledge to support development of ES-based systems. To fill this gap, we developed an approach that assesses rela...
Le projet RePP’Air vise à mieux appréhender les processus de transferts de produits phytosanitaires dansl'air via la mise en place d'un réseau de 7 dispositifs de mesures sur des espaces agricoles français,associé à des enquêtes de pratiques agricoles sur chaque site. Après 4 années d’étude, le projetRePP’Air a permis de mieux comprendre les mécani...
CONTEXT
New types of farming systems have emerged in response to societal demands to reduce environmental impacts and dependence on non-renewable resources. These agriculture models can be classified according to their relative use of anthropic inputs or biodiversity and associated ecosystem services as agricultural production factors. All these m...
N biogeochemical flows and associated N losses exceed currently planetary boundaries and represent a major threat for sustainability. Measuring N losses is a resource-intensive endeavour, and not suitable for ex-ante assessments, thus modelling is a common approach for estimating N losses associated with agricultural scenarios (systems, practices,...
As the sustainable development movement gains traction, many initiatives have aimed to provide support with sustainability assessment methods using a loosely structured set of indicators, resulting in an explosive development of such indicators. Several reviews have sought to gain a clearer understanding of this “indicator zoo” by comparing assessm...
La diversification (allongement des rotations, introduction de cultures intermédiaires, cultures relais, associations…) est un des leviers majeurs pour une transition agroécologique des systèmes de culture. Cependant, toute diversification n’est pas bonne en soi car ses performances dépendent des cultures introduites et de la manière de les assembl...
Pour donner une nouvelle impulsion à sa politique environnementale, l’Union Européenne veut faire évoluer sa politique agricole commune en passant d’une logique de moyens vers une logique de résultats. Ce contexte politique sous la pression de la société pousse donc au développement de méthodes d’évaluation de comptabilisation allant au-delà de la...
The general purpose of the primary and secondary data available in this article is to support an integrated assessment of scenarios of crop-livestock integration at the territorial level i.e. of exchanges between arable and livestock farms. The data is a result of a research collaboration between the scientist from INRAE, agricultural advisers from...
A major path helping agriculture achieve the dual challenges of production and environmental preservation, consists of transitioning from the current, external input-based, conventional farming systems to a biodiversity-based agricultural system that rely more on ecosystem services. One lever of this transition consists of diversifying agri-food sy...
Following treatment, amounts of pesticides can reach the atmosphere because of spray drift, volatilization from soil or plants, and/or wind erosion. Monitoring and risk assessment of air contamination by pesticides is a recent issue and more insights on pesticide transfer to atmosphere are needed. Thus, the objective of this work was to better unde...
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Vulnerability, resilience, robustness and adaptive capacity are four key concepts that characterize dynamics of systems when disturbance occurs. However, rendering them operational for agricultural systems using an approach to quantify dynamics remains a challenge. To p...
There is a growing demand for moving towards sustainable agri-food systems which per nature covers a complex network of activities and domains; such systems will benefit from multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) methods. Although some reviews on MCDA in agri-food research have been published, none of them covered the whole value chain. In this a...
Weed pollen both feeds many insects and causes allergies in humans. The objective of the study was to investigate the determinants in terms of management practices and weed species traits on those pollen-borne services and dissservices (hence (dis)services). We developed a set of indicators to assess the magnitude of these (dis)services combining s...
In a changing world, identifying the drivers of vulnerability, resilience and robustness (VRR) of agricultural systems has become a major issue. We developed and applied a generic analytical framework to perform a systematic review of studies that quantitatively assess VRR of agricultural systems in temperate climate zones. After a thorough selecti...
Crop diversification represents a key lever to support the development of sustainable agri-food systems. Knowledge on trade-offs and carry over effects from different crop diversification strategies is essential to inform agricultural stakeholders of potential costs and benefits. This knowledge is limited by existing data and performance measures p...
Improving air quality is a major challenge for public health and the environment. Assessing the contribution of agricultural activity to air pollution and the resulting impacts is a prerequisite for recommending mitigation practices. More important, their long-term adoption can only be justified by performing a real-time assessment of their effecti...
Oil palm, Elaeis guineensis Jacq., is currently cultivated on 19 M ha and palm oil represents more than one‐third of the global vegetable oil market. Addition of nitrogen via legume cover crop and fertilizers is a common practice in industrial oil palm plantations. Part of this added nitrogen is prone to loss from the field, contributing significan...
In this technical report, we describe thoroughly the structure and functioning of the agri-environmental indicator IN-Palm, to assess potential N losses in oil palm plantations (Pardon et al. 2019).
It includes the user instructions, an explanation of the use of fuzzy decision trees in IN-Palm, the structure and calculation of the 17 modules of t...
Cette présentation a été faite dans le cadre de la journée technique des Réseaux Mixtes Technologiques dont ERYTAGE (Évaluation de la duRabilité des sYstèmes et des Territoires AGricolEs) avec pour thématique l'évaluation de la durabilité des systèmes agricoles.
Ecosystem services (ES) provided to farmers are now well-considered as natural-capital-based production factors. Developing them is a way to reduce use of anthropic inputs and so to develop a more sustainable agriculture. However, it is still a scientific challenge to evaluate quantitatively part of ES relatively of anthropic inputs in agricultural...
Citrus fruits are markedly affected by aphids on the island of Réunion (France). These pests are generally controlled with pesticides, which have adverse effects on human and environmental health. Furthermore, resident vegetation in orchards is often eliminated with herbicides due to suspected competition with citrus trees for resources. Yet this r...
Ce guide présente de façon didactique les concepts et les outils utiles à l'évaluation de l'impact d'activités humaines sur l'environnement. La démarche d'élaboration d'indicateurs simples ainsi que les modes d'agrégation de ceux-ci sont décrits soit sous forme d'indicateurs synthétiques, soit sous forme de tableaux de bord permettant aux utilisate...
This data article contains annotation data characterizing MultiCriteria Assessment (MCA) Methods proposed in the agri-food sector by researchers from INRA, Europe's largest agricultural research institute (INRA, http://institut.inra.fr/en). MCA can be used to assess and compare agricultural and food systems, andsupport multi-actor decision making a...
Mass-flowering crops such as oilseed rape (Brassica napus) are attractive for some pollinators. Consequently, flowering oilseed rape fields may compete for pollinators with co-flowering wild plants occurring in adjacent non-crop habitats. We evaluated the influence of flowering oilseed rape through both its area and its configuration in the landsca...
L'évaluation multicritère des systèmes agricoles : une révolution des méthodes
Toute action en faveur de la conservation ou de la restauration de la biodiversité nécessitera à un stade ou un autre de la démarche une phase d'évaluation de l'impact de systèmes existants ou en cours de conception. L'objectif de cet article sera de faire un point sur les progrès accomplis depuis l'Expertise Collective INRA « Agriculture et Biodiv...
To reduce the negative impacts of agricultural systems, the agro-ecological transition first calls for theuse of greater cultivated biodiversity. Such diversification can be implemented at the field scale, mixingdifferent species, or different varieties of the same species. We discuss the advantages of this intra-fielddiversification by developing...
Le projet CoSAC regroupe des partenaires de la recherche et du développement afin de (1) quantifier et comprendre, à l'aide d'expérimentations, les effets de pratiques agricoles innovantes sur les adventices et le fonctionnement de l'agroécosystème, (2) développer des outils prédisant les effets des pratiques agricoles et du pédoclimat sur la flore...
L’apparition de la notion de développement durable a conduit à un passage des évaluations orientées selon un seul critère vers des évaluations plus intégrées couvrant différentes dimensions de la performance des élevages : l’économie, le social, le sanitaire, le bien être, l’environnement. De nombreuses questions méthodologiques sont posées par la...
Wild bees are essential pollinators whose survival partly depends on the capacity of their environment to offer a sufficient amount of nectar and pollen. Semi-natural habitats and mass-flowering crops such as oilseed rape provide abundant floristic resources for bees. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influences of the spatial distribution...
Spearman correlations between response variables (Abundance of Andrena cineraria and ITD) and two landscape variables (%OSR in the previous year and %SNH) at three different spatial scales (300, 600 and 900m).
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We developed IN-Palm, a model to help managers and scientists to estimate N losses to the environment and identify best management practices.
Stakeholders need operational tools to assess crop protection strategies in regard to environmental impact. The need to assess and report on the impacts of pesticide use on the environment has led to the development of numerous indicators. However, only a few studies have addressed the predictive quality of these indicators. This is mainly due to t...
Assessment of sustainability is a multicriteria problem that addresses several criteria belonging tovarious themes structured in sustainability dimensions. There is the need for a relevant aggregationmethod in addition to the disaggregated indicators. To face this challenge, we developed a new aggregationmethod, CONTRA, which is based on a decision...
Integrated crop protection tolerates residual weed floras if they are not harmful for crop production. These weeds can host harmful crop pests, among which parasitic plants such as branched broomrape (Phelipanche ramosa). This holoparasite is responsible for large yield losses in French crops such as oilseed rape. To date, there are no herbicides a...
Sustainability indicators are well recognized for their potential to assess and monitor sustainable development of agricultural systems. A large number of indicators are proposed in various sustainability assessment frameworks, which raises concerns regarding the validity of approaches, usefulness and trust in such frameworks. Selecting indicators...
This report describes the methods and results of the FLORSYS project financed by the research programme “Assessing and reducing environmental risks from plant protection products” funded by the French Ministries in charge of Ecology and Agriculture.
The intensification of crop management have led to an impoverishment of the biological diversity, resulting in the loss of ecosystem services. In viticulture, flora could play an interesting role because it can compensate the negative impacts of vine monoculture. The flora biodiversity favours fauna biodiversity, sustaining especially the presence...
Prise en compte des pratiques de fertilisations dans les méthodes d’évaluation agri-environnementale des systèmes de culture
The emergence of the notion of sustainable development has led to a shift from single-criterion-oriented evaluations to more integrated assessments covering the different dimensions of livestock performance: economics, social, health, welfare and the environment. Many methodological questions arise from the confrontation of these dimensions which h...
Ce numéro comprend les articles issus du colloque de restitution Ecophyto Recherche « Des outils et des dispositifs pour éclairer les décisions, explorer les possibles et accompagner la transition vers des systèmes économes et multi-performants », qui s’est tenu à Saint-Malo, du 22 au 24 mars 2017.
For a selection of farms in the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) of the European Union, the economic, environmental and social performance of farms is measured using farm level sustainability indicators based on FADN data and additiona data collected through the FLINT project. For each type of farming (TF), that is to say each main production s...
All three dimensions of sustainability —economic, social and environmental— must be integrated into a holistic assessment framework in the development of sustainable cropping systems (CS). Numerous sustainability assessment methods meet this requirement, but most of them handle only one type of production system (arable crops, fruit or vegetables)....
In recent decades, the concept of sustainability has become increasingly prominent in agricultural policy debates. This has led more and more stakeholders to pay attention to the questions of monitoring and evaluation of agricultural practices, and raised the question of appropriate indicators to assess sustainability aspects of given practices. We...
Oral presentation.
Conference: International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs) 8th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, At Toulouse, France
Oil palm cultivation area is expected to increase until at least 2050. This expansion raises environmental concerns, not only regarding land-use change and its consequences, but also concerning potential impacts of losses of nitrogen such as ammonia volatilisation, nitrous oxide emission and nitrate leaching and runoff. The prerequisite to any work...
Evaluation du rique pesticies: Le projet Equipe juge la qualité des indicateurs
Chapitre 1. Du développement durable à l’évaluation multicritère : les bases
1. Quelle traduction du développement durable en agriculture ?
2. Comment aborder la problématique du développement durable en agriculture ?
Chapitre 2. Débuter l’évaluation : les étapes indispensables
1. Une démarche d’évaluation en quatre étapes
2. Les réflexions préala...
New agricultural systems are required to satisfy societal expectations such as higher quantity and quality of agricultural products, reducing environmental impacts, and more jobs. However, identifying and implementing more suitable agricultural systems is difficult due to conflicting objectives and to the wide diversity of scientific disciplines re...
While pesticides help to effectively control crop pests, their collateral effects often harm the environment. On the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, over 75% of the pesticides used are herbicides and they are regularly detected in water. Agri-environmental models and pesticide risk indicators can be used to predict and to help pestici...
Amongst the biodiversity components of agriculture, weeds are an interesting model for exploring management options relying on the principle of ecological intensification in arable farming. Weeds can cause severe crop yield losses, contribute to farmland functional biodiversity and are strongly associated with the generic issue of pesticide use. In...
The growing concern about side-effects of policies focusing on economic growth or even
technological innovations, as well as agriculture intensification leads more and more
stakeholders to pay attention to the questions of monitoring and evaluation of
agricultural practices. This step of evaluation is now essential in policy decision, in
research a...
