A national platform to foster research cooperation. 100 research topics

Vianney Le Pichon (1) , Stéphane Bellon (2) , Marion Desquilbet (3) , Eve Fouilleux (4) , Denis Lairon (5) , Marc Tchamitchian (2)

1 GRAB - Groupe de Recherche en Agriculture Biologique
2 ECODEVELOPPEMENT - Ecodéveloppement
3 TSE-R - Toulouse School of Economics
4 UMR MOISA - Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs
5 INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale

In order to mobilize the French research potential to develop organic farming, a multidisciplinary team of 15 researchers and stakeholders was established. Their collaborative work consisted of identifying and bringing together the needs of the organic sector and translating them into research topics for key areas. They thus drafted the first French framework program for research and innovation in organic farming. The first part of this paper presents the conceptual framework of the organic food system and the importance of improving methods for evaluating its multiple performances. It then presents 100 research topics structured into 6 themes that cover the entire organic food system. This work confirms the relevance of such team arrangements to be in line with sector challenges and opportunities. After this first benchmark, the role of FROG, this French organic platform, is to mobilize stakeholders to define the organic food system to be designed in the future, and ultimately to increase the number of research projects dedicated to its achievement.

Mots clés: Organic; Research; Food system; France

Domaines: Environnement et Société

Vianney Le Pichon, Stéphane Bellon, Marion Desquilbet, Eve Fouilleux, Denis Lairon, et al.. A national platform to foster research cooperation. 100 research topics. Organic World Congress, Nov 2017, Delhi, India. ⟨hal-03545563⟩