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Les "Dossiers d'Agropolis"
The series is a publication issued by Agropolis International, in French and English, within its mission for the promotion of the scientific community skills. Each series which is a directory of skills, is dedicated to a major scientific issue.
These thematic directories provide a global and easy to consult presentation of the laboratories, teams and research units of all the Agropolis intitutes involved in the given issue. They also provide information on the wide range of training sessions available.
One of the objectives of the series is to facilitate contacts for the development of exchanges and technical and scientific cooperations by a wider promotion of the community skills.
Number 21 - October 2016
Scientific coordination :
Bruno Blondin (Montpellier SupAgro), Hervé Hannin (Montpellier SupAgro), Thierry Simonneau (INRA), Jean-Marc Touzard (INRA), Patrice This (INRA)
Coordination: Chantal Dorthe (INRA)
Agropolis International Correspondent: Mélanie Broin
Training, research and innovation expertise on viticulture and wine at the scientific research platform in Montpellier and area
This Dossier presents the scientific structures based in Languedoc-Roussillon area, members of the Agropolis International scientific community, whose activities are focused on training, research and innovation regarding viticulture and wine:
- higher education and research institutions, development and incubation platforms
- 14 joint research units (UMRs, attached to several parent organizations) and research groups, conducting studies in different complementary scientific disciplines (genetics, physiology, agronomy, ecology, oenology, economy, information science, etc.)
- 3 joint technology units (UMTs), experimental units and field stations, conducting studies in the field or in technology centres for research units and public and private partners.
This special issue showcases the broad range of training, research and innovation expertise of regional stakeholders in the fields of viticulture and wine.
Scientifically, based on practical examples in five main thematic areas:
- analysis of the diversity and functioning of the grape genome
- vineyard management, agricultural practices, impact reduction
- knowledge to control wine quality
- social science, innovation and sectoral transformation approaches
- meeting digital challenges in the sector and a cross-cutting chapter illustrating how—through transdisciplinary programmes—climate change adaptation and sustainable vitiviniculture challenges can be addressed by combining these skills and expertise.
This Dossier also highlights the broad scope of partnerships developed by regional scientific stakeholders with the academic sector in France, Europe and worldwide, and with the private sector to support and facilitate top notch research and training, so as to meet the needs of stakeholders in the sector, and of consumers, while fostering innovation.
The range of diploma training-education courses (2-5 years of higher education) offered by Agropolis International member institutions in the viticulture and wine sectors are also presented.
Number 22 - April 2016
Issue realized with the partnership and support of INTA and EMBRAPA.
Scientific coordination:
Claudio José Reis de Carvalho (Embrapa), Roberto Cittadini (INTA), Bernard Hubert (Agropolis International)
Agropolis International Coordination:
Isabelle Chaffaut, Isabelle Amsallem, Mireille Montes de Oca
This issue of Agropolis International Dossier is a report on the presentations and discussions which took place during the seminar “Research, development and innovation for the Family Farming in the South” (4th June 2014, Montpellier-France), organized by Labex-Europe of EMBRAPA, Labintex of INTA and Agropolis International.
This seminar has been organized in parallel with the International Encounters held between 1st and 3rd June 2014 in Montpellier; it allowed the participants to interchange over the challenges faced by research for the family farming in Argentina and Brazil and consider future lines for research and cooperation performed between Agropolis International, Labex-Europe of EMBRAPA, Labintex of INTA and the French research institutions.
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Number 20 - February 2015
Scientific coordination :
Sandra Ardoin-Bardin (IRD), Nicolas Arnaud (CNRS), Sophie Boutin (UM), Jean-Luc Chotte (IRD), Philippe Jarne (CNRS), Pascal Kosuth (Agropolis Fondation), Philippe Lebaron (UPMC), Éric Servat (IRD)
Agropolis International Coordination: Mélanie Broin
This Dossier showcases research structures based in Languedoc-Roussillon Region whose activities are focused on addressing challenges ncountered in studies on climate change impacts and adaptations.
Scientific research carried out by the regional research stakeholders on climate change impacts and adaptations is very broad in scope. This Dossier - which is far from being comprehensive- aims to give readers an overview of this research by highlighting the stakeholders involved and giving a few practical examples of their research activities.
These are presented under four major themes:
- Climate change & resources, territories and development
- Climate change & biodiversity and ecosystems
- Climate change & interactions between organisms
- Climate change & agricultural and livestock production systems
Agropolis International members also offer a broad range of diploma training-education courses (2-8 years of higher education) in which the climate change issue is taken into account in the light of the most recent advanced research on the topic. The list of training and education courses is available online.
World agriculture is overwhelmingly dominated by family farming, which is the leading rural employment source and food provider. The 2014 International Year of Family Farming launched by the United Nations spotlights the importance of this system, providing an opportunity for the Agropolis International scientific community to showcase its high long-standing commitment to research ‘on’ and ‘for’ family farming. The topics covered in this Dossier concern 21 research units based in Languedoc Roussillon Region, involving over 1 000 researchers whose activities are fully or partially focused on addressing—in collaboration with many partners—major family farming challenges in France and worldwide. This Agropolis International Dossier is a contribution to the UN call for commitments to family farming within the framework of:
www.fao.org/family-farming-2014/en Scientific coordinator : Jean-Michel Sourisseau, Cirad (UMR ART-Dev) |
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n° 18, december 2013 available in French Research skills in food, nutrition and health in the Languedoc-Roussillon region and Avignon
15 research units based in the French Languedoc- Roussillon region and Avignon, involving over 700 scientists and around 500 PhD students are striving to deal with major current food and nutrition issues, in association with health concerns, through all or part of their research activities. These teams conduct rich and varied research to tackle the complexity of these issues, encompassing social, economic, health and environmental factors, etc.
This Dossier also voices the opinions of innovation stakeholders concerning their activities in this field. Regional technology platforms supporting research on food, nutrition and health, and advanced training opportunities in related areas are also described (42 degree courses entirely focused on the theme or including significant components related to the theme and 27 Short non-degree programmes).
Scientific coordinator: Jean-Louis Rastoin (Montpellier SupAgro UNESCO ‘World Food Systems’ Chair).
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n°17, October 2013 available in French This Dossier presents over 40 taxonomic and live collections of microbial, plant and animal species. This unique group of collections is highly relevant with respect to plant genetic resources (the scientific community includes several biological resource centres) and its focus on Mediterranean and tropical regions—which makes it a reference of global scope.
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Published in 2012
Scientific coordination : Véronique Bellon-Maurel, Irstea Research skills of Montpellier and the Languedoc-Roussillon region in the field of green technologies A growing awareness of the need to preserve the environment has increasingly led to the desire to develop intervention techniques and methods aimed at reducing pollution or, more generally, environmental impact, thus generating new areas of activity. The scientific community gathered by Agropolis International has taken up the research issues raised by the development of these new approaches and new investigation fields. The purpose of this Dossier is to outline the areas of expertise it has been able to develop, both in the field of agricultural techniques as such and in water and waste recycling and recovery (beyond the pollution mitigation aspects), product enhancement in the form of new bio-based materials, and new forms of bioenergy. This research is not solely confined to the development of new technologies but has a broader scope, taking in as well product and process evaluation and eco-design, industrial or territorial ecology, and environmental monitoring. This Dossier also presents the joint efforts of the research and business communities, in particular through competitiveness clusters, to promote the development and dissemination of innovations to spur economic development. The topics presented in this issue are of particular concern to the nine research units or teams that have made environmental technologies an essential part of their work, comprising some 150 senior scientists and 100 doctoral students. |
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Coordinator Labex Europe : Pedro Arcuri Building scientific partnerships today: EMBRAPA's Labex Program in Europe and over the world. Partnership is an essential component of research today. To say that no major question can be settled by a single institute is no novelty. Buiding up and managing multilateral partnerships forms a difficult operation requiring good knowledge of capacities and of the complementary features of those involved. It can be optimised, however, by sending experienced scientists to work with partners with the twin aim of sharing knowledge and prospecting. Sharing knowledge, using their own competences and making partners discover those of the institute that they represent. Prospecting, outside the host team, to find new partnership opportunities within their field of competences that are relevant for the strategy of their institution. |
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2nd edition. The date related to the research units have been updated on 07/12. Coordinator : Jacques Wery, UMR System The 2006–2008 food crisis and the accompanying hunger riots put agriculture and its crucial role under the media and political spotlight, hence revealing the essential role that agricultural sciences will have to play in the coming years. Agronomists are indeed facing a major challenge—to invent and promote agricultural systems capable of providing a sufficient volume of top quality products to feed around 9 billion people in the future, thus ensuring peoples’ well-being and health, while also minimizing the environmental footprint of farming.
Electronic portal on the research on crops and cropping systems, a key area of excellence of the Agropolis International scientific community. |
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Coordinators: Thierry Rieu (AgroParisTech, Montpellier) - Mélanie Broin and Michel Soulié (Agropolis Internatinal) Seven years after the first “Dossier d’Agropolis International” on the theme of “Water: resources and management”, it was time for giving an update in order to provide the large number of website visitors (about 120,000 downloads of the Dossier, French and English versions combined) with up-todate information and developing visibility with evidence of the progress made by the Languedoc-Roussillon region’s scientific water community. Readers will also find an updated directory of research, technology transfer and higher education structures. The re-edition of this Dossier in early 2012 is an opportunity to demonstrate the dynamism of the regional water scientific community on the occasion of the 6th World Water Forum held in Marseille, France (12-17 March 2012) and of the international water exhibition Hydrogaia. Also available in French and Spanish |
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Published in 2011
Coordinators: Serge Morand (Montpellier University 2) and Chantal Dorthe (INRA) The term ‘biodiversity’ designates the variety of life forms at all organization levels, including genes, populations, communities and ecosystems, as well as humansbecause of their interactions with all biodiversity components.
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Published in 2010
2nd edition. The date related to the research units have been updated on 07/12. Coordinator : Jacques Wery, UMR System The 2006–2008 food crisis and the accompanying hunger riots put agriculture and its crucial role under the media and political spotlight, hence revealing the essential role that agricultural sciences will have to play in the coming years. Agronomists are indeed facing a major challenge—to invent and promote agricultural systems capable of providing a sufficient volume of top quality products to feed around 9 billion people in the future, thus ensuring peoples’ well-being and health, while also minimizing the environmental footprint of farming.
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Coordonnator: Oliver Oliveros (DURAS Project Coordinator) DURAS Project is like no other. It was
designed to support the facilitation
role of the Global Forum on
Agricultural Research (GFAR) in
its effort to promote the opening
up of the agricultural research
system, particularly by ensuring that
research priorities are identified in a
participatory fashion and that the less
vocal stakeholders, most notably civil
society groups, are mobilized and
able to meaningfully participate in
agricultural research for development
(ARD) processes. It was also
conceived so that stakeholders could
share and exchange information
through available interactive regional
agricultural information systems.
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Coordonnators: Yves Savidan (Agropolis International, France) - Pedro Arcuri (Embrapa, Brazil) The research competences of Montpellier and the Languedoc-Roussillon region within the framework of Labex Europe. This special Agropolis International Dossier devoted to ‘Partnership’ describes the teachings of seven years of functioning of Labex-Europe. Teachings that Embrapa and Agropolis International wish to share.
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The Euraxess Languedoc-Roussillon Centre Acronyms and abbreviations |
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Coordinator : Pascal Kosuth (Director of UMR TETIS and the Remote Sensing Center, Montpellier, France) Access to airborne and satellite technology for Earth Observation is a major methodological boon for researchers. This ‘altitude gain’ for monitoring has led to the development of a new approach to assessing territories, providing an overview of the target area and clarifying the distribution of elements within this area. The quality and accuracy of the remote sensing tool are continually being improved. The increase in the number of spaceborne sensors and progress achieved in signal processing have generated new information that can in turn be used in a broad range of scientific fields as well as for decision support. This is the first Dossier devoted to a research and action tool. It presents research on improving this tool, along with examples of its applications to meet needs on different topics.
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The others issues
Coordonnators : Benoît Jaillard (INRA) et Roland Poss (IRD) Agropolis International pools several hundreds of scientists involved in soil research and teaching–it is a major European hub of activities in this field, as highlighted in the present document. This Dossier was certified by the French committee of the International Year of Planet Earth, which aims to boost awareness on the role of Earth sciences in the development of human societies. Table of content :
Topics covered by the research teams Training at Agropolis International List of acronyms and abbreviations
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Coordonnator : Pierre-Marie Bosc (UMR MOISA) As part of the Université de Montpellier Sud de France initiative, Agropolis International pools 24 multidisciplinary research units focused on these topics, including around 700 researchers and teacher researchers supervising 500 PhD candidates. They form four thematic units that represent pivotal points whose boundaries are flexible due to the complexity of the phenomena involved and global interdependence. Table on content :
Topics covered by the research teams Montpellier Social Sciences and Humanities Research Institute Training at Agropolis International List of acronyms and abbreviations |
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Coordonnator : Gilles Boeuf (Laboratoire Arago, Banyuls, UMR 7628, CNRS/UPMC) Languedoc-Roussillon Region, particularly Montpellier, have recognized long-standing experience in this respect, while hosting many institutions and research units that can be mobilized to focus on aquatic ecosystems and their development: 23 laboratories involving five universities, the CNRS, four specialised institutes and two mixed bodies. Table of content :
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Genomics accessible to partners in the South Genome diversity analyses and results, and applications for breeding varieties that are more productive and resistant to the main biotic and abiotic stresses present in tropical environments, should be readily accessible to research teams in developing countries. Research and training resources are being focused on a limited number of platforms in the North and South to benefit maximally from the rapid progress in complex integrative biotechnologies.The Agropolis advanced research platform contribution, backed by two proposal requests (1999 and 2001), has very substantial specific advantages. Agropolis International is especially grateful to the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, CIRAD, CNRS, INRA and IRD for their support to this platform.
Table of content : Agropolis advanced research platform
Glossary List of acronyms
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Coordonnator : René Sforza (EBCL) Within the Agropolis International community, about fifty scientists are directly involved in research on biological control as well as several hundred more indirectly. This constitutes the premier French scientific campus of its kind and one of the most important in Europe, dealing with various and complementary competencies such as those covered in the following chapters.
Table of content: Characterising biodiversity in agroecosystems
Dissemination of scientific and technical culture Topics covered by research team Education and training at Agropolis International Glossary List of abbreviations |
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n° ISSN : 1628-4240
Update on 21/10/16
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