In the Axe 1, we address the following research question: which resources (methods, tools, knowledge) are relevant to support the stakeholders involved in designing and assessing cropping systems within food systems?

Three scientific challenges are developped:

(1) How to capitalize expert knowledge, useful for the design of innovative cropping systems, as a way of supporting design processes for other actors? How to produce, organize, share actionable knowledge (i.e. knowledge that could be mobilized in/for action) to help designing innovative cropping systems?

(2) How to organize innovative design processes to support transition dynamics? Which design support tools or methods should be designed with and for stakeholders? How can we involve actors in the transition, including those who are not yet convinced of the need for change?

(3) Which agronomic tools and methods to enhance the process towards coupled innovations (on cropping systems and on food processing)?

Example of a research project 

Agro-peps / GECO : How to formalise and organize scientific and expert knowledge to allow Agro-peps / GECO becoming a usefi-ull tool to help for the design of agroecological cropping systems

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Examples of publications

Pelzer E, Bonifazi M,  Soulié M, Guchard L, Quinio M, Ballot R, Jeuffroy MH, 2020. Participatory Design of Agronomic Scenarios for the Reintroduction of Legumes Into a French Territory. Agricultural Systems 184, 102893. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2020.102893

Richard A, Casagrande M, Jeuffroy MH, David C, 2020. A farmer-oriented method for co-designing groundwater-friendly farm management. Agronomy for Sustainable Development 40:26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-020-00622-7

Ballot, R., Loyce, C., Jeuffroy, M.-H., Ronceux, A., Gombert, J., Lesur-Dumoulin, C., Guichard, L., 2018. First cropping system model based on expert-knowledge parameterization. Agron. Sustain. Dev. 38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-018-0512-8

Jean Marc Meynard JM, Jeuffroy MH, Le Bail M, Lefevre A, Magrini MB, Michon C, 2017. Designing coupled innovations for the sustainability transition of agrifood systems. Agricultural Systems 157, 330-339.

Leclère, M., Loyce, C., Jeuffroy, M.-H., 2018. Growing camelina as a second crop in France: A participatory design approach to produce actionable knowledge. European Journal of Agronomy 101, 78–89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2018.08.006

Ravier C., Jeuffroy MH., Gate P., Cohan JP., Meynard JM., 2017.  Combining user involvement with innovative design to develop a radical new method for managing N fertilization Nutr Cycl Agroecosyst. DOI 10.1007/s10705-017-9891-5

Chantre E.,  Guichard L., Ballot R., Jacquet F., Jeuffroy M-H., Prigent C., Barzman M., 2016. Co-click’eau, a participatory method for land-use scenarios in water catchments. Land Use Policy. 59, 260-271.

Current doctoral and post-doctoral work

Collaborative design of agro-ecological cropping systems: formalization and use of a knowledge management tool for design

Maude Quinio

Supervison: Marie-Hélène Jeuffroy, Laurence Guichard et Françoise Détienne (LTCI, UMR 5141 CNRS - Telecom ParisTech)

What crops and cropping systems are needed to move towards the bio-economy? Application to the emergence of biorefinery in an agricultural territory

Margot Leclère

Supervison: Marie Hélène et Chantal Loyce

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