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Viability and adaptive governance of tropical island agrosystems – GAIA-TROP
By using the French West Indies as a field of application, this fundamental research program emphasizes the adaptation of agrosystems in small island territories to global changes. The choice of these small island territories results from the extent of issues related to the ongoing global mutations
Silvicultural and economic adaptation of forest management to wind risk – FOR-WIND
The main issue is a better understanding of wind impacts on managed forest units. Environnemental mechanics formalizes the scaling of wind risk from trees to fragmented landscapes. Mechanobiology investigates growth responses to mechanical strains, using recent advances at the cell and the whole pla
Predictive Ecological Engineering for Landscape Ecosystem Services and Sustainability – PEERLESS
The control of crop pests by the enhancement of services provided their natural enemies is frequently evocated to reduce dependency of crop production to pesticides. Although, the links between the crop management, the levels of control services provided by the population of natural enemies and the
Landscape approach of soil organic matter dynamics in intensive mixed agrosystems, in the context of global change – MOSAIC
The objective of the project is to investigate SOM dynamics (stocks and related fluxes) in intensive mixed-agricultural landscape, and the impacts of global changes on SOM resilience. The project focuses on quantifying and understanding the heterogeneity in SOM dynamics at landscape scale, in landsc
Multi-scale assessment of livestock development pathways in Vietnam – REVALTER
REVALTER project aims at promoting a new vision of livestock development in Vietnam, a country faced with extremely rapid intensification and industrialization of the sector. In order to build some sustainable scenarios for the future, the project will review the past and current changes that aff
Assessing scenarios on the nitrogen cascade in rural landscapes and territorial modelling – ESCAPADE
One of the agro-environmental and socio-economic challenges of agriculture is to maintain agricultural production while limiting the use of nitrogen inputs and challenging production systems developed in the past decades. A major challenge is to better understand the processes involved in the nitrog
Of lands and waters – Terre-Eau
This project explores the reconstruction of territories through the changing interactions with land and water. It studio the co-production of the social and natural orders that this entails. It identifies, within these co-production mechanisms the adaptation capacities actors may develop when facing
Cereal seed inoculation by a natural strain of Azospirillum for a sustainable and resilient agriculture – AZODURE
Major challenges of modern agriculture are to diminish the use of nitrogenous fertilizers (rising cost pegged to the one of petrol, ecological impact), raise plant tolerance to adverse climatic conditions (global warming) and diminish the use of chemical pesticides. The project aims to develop and e
Adaptation of oyster-farming ecosystems to global change – GIGASSAT
Since the 1970s, disease epidemics, mass mortalities, harmful algal blooms and other population explosions have been occurring in marine environments at a historically unprecedented rate due to climate change. Shellfish aquaculture is vulnerable to global warming because it increases the incidence o