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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...
New forms of field experimentation are currently emerging to support transitions towards sustainable agriculture, including “multi-actor experimental networks” (MAENs). Both in public policy and in academic research, such networks are increasingly presented as a promising approach for fostering sustainable farming system design. Many studies have i...
La culture associée, ou mélange d’espèces ou association d’espèces, est une pratique agricole consistant à cultiver, dans une même parcelle, au moins deux espèces, pendant une période significative de leur croissance, et qui présente de nombreux intérêts, comme : I) diversifier les assolements et les rotations ; II) accroître la résilience face aux...
Intercropping or species mixtures, is an agricultural practice that consists of cultivating at least two species on the same plot of land during a significant period of their growth, and which has many advantages, such as: i) diversifying the crop rotation; ii) increasing the resilience of systems to hazards thanks to more stable yields and less pr...
Addressing the issues that agriculture is currently facing requires disruptive innovations, which may be stimulated through a process of innovative design, enhancing exploration in specific situations. In the aim to equip this process, several researchers implemented 'design workshops'. Yet, the literature poorly describes the way to organize, impl...
Over the last few years, an increasing number of agricultural R&D actors have sought to discover and get to know farmers’ practices that they consider as innovative, unconventional, or promising. We refer to these approaches, all of which aim to support the design of farming systems, as ‘farmer innovation tracking’. There is still a lack of knowled...
Innovation is central to the strategic orientations of many agronomic research institutes. Little attention has been paid, however, to the links between knowledge production and design processes, defined as processes resulting in the creation of new objects in pursuit of specific goals. Our aim was to analyze the conditions and specificities of the...
To meet the challenges of sustainability in agricultural system design, reducing the dependency on synthetic plant protection products has become a core issue. There are currently two major reasons for farmers' decision to reduce their use of synthetic products: public policies, and the extralegal requirements of food supply chains. To
reduce or el...
More and more questions are currently being raised as to what the farm equipment of the future ought to be and how it should be designed to best meet contemporary challenges in farming. In Western countries, innovation in agricultural equipment is focused on a dominant model in which the agro-industry designs and patents standardised equipment for...
Despite the increasing demand to develop cross-disciplinary research projects, designing collaborative research still prove to be difficult due to both scientific specialization and organizational issues. In this paper, we explore how innovative design dynamics can be developed between researchers to collectively build research projects that could...
Despite the increasing demand to develop cross-disciplinary research projects, designing collaborative research still prove to be difficult due to both scientific specialization and organizational issues. In this paper, we explore how innovative design dynamics can be developed between researchers to collectively build research projects that could...
Despite the increasing demand to develop cross-disciplinary research projects, designing collaborative research still prove to be difficult due to both scientific specialization and organizational issues. In this paper, we explore how innovative design dynamics can be developed between researchers to collectively build research projects that could...
Aujourd’hui, dans un nombre croissant d’initiatives de la R&D agricole, on cherche à apprendre de pratiques ‘innovantes’ d’agriculteurs, pour soutenir l’évolution des systèmes agricoles, souvent dans le projet de l’agroécologie. Ces initiatives émergent dans un contexte où, en agronomie, on explore de nouveaux itinéraires de production de connaissa...
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
Farming activities in the Argentinean Pampa have focused on soybean production since the 1990s. The resulting cropping systems may not be sustainable in the long run due to development of glyphosate-tolerant weeds, homogenization of landscape mosaics, and pollutions. Here, we used the tracking on-farm innovation method to produce resources for the...
The objective of the French program Ecophyto is to reduce the farming dependency on pesticides without affecting their economic performances. This is a great challenge in vegetable production given that (i) it concerns a wide range of crop species, pests and pathogens, (ii) biotic and abiotic components evolve quickly, especially under greenhouse c...
Après une vague de conversion de nombreuses parcelles d’élevage extensif en grande culture au cours du XXe siècle, la production pampéenne se spécialise sur la culture du soja dans les années 1990. Cette période correspond à la mise sur le marché d’un nouveau type variétal de soja tolérant à un herbicide, le glyphosate : le soja RoundUp Ready. Asso...
La R&D agricole considère aujourd’hui les innovations de terrain comme des sources d’idées et de références pour améliorer durablement les modes de production. La « traque de systèmes innovants » et l’évaluation de ces systèmes pour définir les plus performants du point de vue économique et agrienvironnemental nécessitent cependant un travail de mi...
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