In the domain of production, the research issues tackled at AgroParisTech focus on the design of innovative and sustainable systems for the agricultural production of goods (animal and plant products) and services, and the design of forest management systems, in the context of agroecological transition.
This concept takes into account not only the multifunctionality of agriculture and forestry, but also changes in global context (climate, markets, land use, etc.). The design of complex systems in situations of uncertainty is based on research into biological functioning at various levels of spatiotemporal organization in the organisms studied (plants, animals, micro-organisms), their interactions and their adaptations to contrasting and fluctuating environments (rarefaction of resources and production factors, adaptation of plants and animals at the individual and population levels), to help to optimise the management of domestic biodiversity and its valorisation. Consideration of the economic and social performances of the systems designed, at the scales of production units, sectors and public policy, is an integral part of this field of research.
The corresponding research units affiliated to AgroParisTech
• Agronomy (Agronomie)
• BETA (Bureau d’économie théorique et appliquée ; Bureau for Economic Theory and Applications)
• BIOGER (Biologie et gestion des risques en agriculture ; Biology, Agricultural Risk Management)
• CIRED (Centre international de recherche pour l’environnement et le développement ; International Centre for Research on Environment and Development)
• ÉcoSys (Écologie fonctionnelle et écotoxicologie des agroécosystèmes ; Functional Ecology and Ecotoxicology of Agroecosystems)
• Public Economics (Économie publique)
• GABI (Génétique animale et biologie interactive ; Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology)
• GQE - Le Moulon (Génétique quantitative et évolution - Le Moulon ; Quantitative Genetics and Evolution - Le Moulon)
• IJPB (Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin ; Jean-Pierre Bourgin Institute)
• MIA-Paris (Mathématiques et informatique appliquées – Paris ; Applied athematics and Computer Science - Paris)
• MoSAR (Modélisation systémique appliquée aux ruminants ; Systemic Modelling applied to Ruminants)
• PRODIG (Pôle de recherche pour l’organisation et la diffusion de l’information géographique ; Research Pole for the Organisation and Dissemination of Geographic Information)
• SAD-APT (Sciences pour l’action et le développement - Activités, produits, territoires ; Sciences for the Action and Development – Activities, Products, Territories)
• Silva
• Territories (Territoires)
• TETIS (Territoires, environnement, télédétection et information spatiale ; Land, Environment, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information)
Examples of research and innovation projects
BoostCrop-Boosting Crop Growth using Natural Product and Synthesis Enabled Solar Harvesting
Durablé project : contribution to more sustainable wheat and pea supply chains
ReMIX – Redesigning European cropping systems based on species MIXtures
Examples of publications
• Hubert Boizard, Joséphine Peigné, María CarolinaSasal, Maria De Fátima Guimarães, Denis Piron, Vincent Tomis, Jean-François Vian, Stéphane Cadoux, Ricardo Ralisch, João Tavares Filho, Djilali Heddadj, Juan De Battista, Annie Duparque, Julio Cezar Franchini, Jean Roger-Estrade (2017). Developments in the “profil cultural” method for an improved assessment of soil structure under no-till. Soil and Tillage Research, 173:92-103.
DOI : 10.1016/j.still.2016.07.007
Open access version on HAL-AgroParisTech
• Nicolas C. Friggens, Christine Duvaux-Ponter, Marie-Pierre Étienne, Tristan Mary-Huard, Philippe Schmidely (2016). Characterizing individual differences in animal responses to a nutritional challenge : Toward improved robustness measures. Journal of Dairy Science, 99 : 2704-2718.
DOI : 10.3168/jds.2015-101626
Open access version on HAL-AgroParisTech
• Akakpo, Roland, Nora Scarcelli, Hana Chaïr, Alexandre Dansi, Gustave Djedatin, Anne-Céline Thuillet, Bénédicte Rhoné, Olivier François, Karine Alix, et Yves Vigouroux (2017). Molecular basis of African yam domestication : analyses of selection point to root development, starch biosynthesis, and photosynthesis related genes, BMC Genomics, 18 : 782.
DOI : 10.1186/s12864-017-4143-2
Open access version on HAL-AgroParisTech
• Augustin Pallière, Jean-Luc Paul, Hubert Cochet (2018).
Labour Commodification, Differentiation and Marginalisation of the Peasantry in Sella Limba (Sierra Leone) from 1950 to the Present. Journal of Agrarian Change. 18(4):787-805.
DOI : 10.1111/joac.12248
Open access version on HAL-AgroParisTech
• Valérie Berthelot (coord.) (2018). Alimentation des animaux et qualité de leurs produits. Editions Lavoisier, coll. Agriculture d’Aujourd’hui, Paris, 442 pages. ISBN : 978-2-7430-2275-4
Reference on HAL-AgroParisTech
• Sacha Guégan, Francois Léger (2015). Maraîchage biologique permaculturel et performance économique. Rapport de recherche, 67 pages.
Open access version on HAL-AgroParisTech
