Expected outcomes

This goal therefore goes beyond fields and farmers alone. It also requires us to examine all types of agricultural production: arable crops, arboriculture, market gardening and vines, etc. It is for these reasons that we have designed our project on a territorial scale and with a deliberately comprehensive vision of the impacts to be generated on this scale. We have chosen to i) implement innovative participatory design with local actors (co-design), ii) meet the need to reconnect production and processing in order to reason together about production and its outlets, iii) consider the diversification of agroecosystems through the introduction of cultivated biodiversity on the plot and its surroundings as a powerful lever to fight against the erosion of biodiversity (animal and plant) in agriculture, which in turn supports the production of ecosystem services useful for agricultural performance, iv) build adaptive project management to provide the means to adapt our perspectives and research questions to the actual situations of the territories and their evolution.

These choices imply deep potential transformations:

-     Transformation of agricultural systems through new practices, crop managements, crop systems and landscape organizations

-     The emergence of new supply chains, with agro-food transformations of certain products and new marketing and business models

-     Changes in the advisory and training activities of agricultural organizations, as well as the potential emergence of new intermediate actors in the territories

-     A change in the citizens’ view of agriculture

-     A change in the perception of the human-nature relationship, encompassing the diversity of services provided by agriculture and making it possible to go beyond the idea of a struggle or opposition between agriculture and environment.

It is on the basis of these elements that our project identifies its potential impacts.