Designing new sustainable cropping systems: a method combining the participation of various actors and the use of assessment tools

Lorène Prost (1) , Pascal Beguin (1) , Marianne Cerf (1) , Laurence Guichard (2) , Marie-Helene Jeuffroy (2) , Raymond Reau (2)

1 SADAPT - Sciences pour l'Action et le Développement : Activités, Produits, Territoires
2 Agronomie

The aim of this communication is to present and discuss a participative method we are developing to design and assess cropping systems adapted to multi-criteria demands and assessment. Based on the prototyping approach (e.g. Vereijken 1997; Lançon et al. 2007), this method takes advantage of expert knowledge and focuses on the means to collect, gather and transmit the variety of expectations by involving the stakeholders in the process of design. We are building and testing this method in different case studies in France. This communication aims at describing each step of this method, which actors should be involved and which tools we can use to design innovative cropping systems.

Mots clés: AGRONOMIE

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Lorène Prost, Pascal Beguin, Marianne Cerf, Laurence Guichard, Marie-Helene Jeuffroy, et al.. Designing new sustainable cropping systems: a method combining the participation of various actors and the use of assessment tools. Farming Systems Design 2009 : an international symposium on Methodologies for Integrated Analysis of Farm Production Systems, Aug 2009, Monterey, Californie, United States. ⟨hal-01173215⟩