Sébastien Barot, Senior researcher in ecol­o­gy, Sor­bonne Uni­ver­sité and IRD, Insti­tut d’é­colo­gie et des sci­ences de l’en­vi­ron­nement de Paris (iEES Paris, CNRS UMR 7618 – IRD 242 – INRAE 1392).

For online (live) atten­dance: https://utc-fr.zoom.us/j/87826002169

For the replay: https://videos.epog.eu

The ses­sion describes the field of agroe­col­o­gy as the appli­ca­tion of eco­log­i­cal engi­neer­ing to agri­cul­ture. Agroe­col­o­gy should thus use eco­log­i­cal knowl­edge to decrease the use of inputs (pes­ti­cides, fer­til­iz­er, and ener­gy) and to exploit eco­log­i­cal process­es instead.

Gliess­man, S. R. 2006. Agroe­col­o­gy: the ecol­o­gy of sus­tain­able food sys­tems. Sec­ond edi­tion. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

Altieri, M. A. 1989. Agroe­col­o­gy — a new research and devel­op­ment par­a­digm for world agri­cul­ture. Agri­cul­ture Ecosys­tems & Envi­ron­ment 27:37–46.

Malézieux, E. 2012. Design­ing crop­ping sys­tems from nature. Agron­o­my for Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment 32:15–29.

Doré, T., D. Makows­ki, E. Malézieux, N. Munier-Jolain, M. Tchamitchi­an, and P. Tit­tonell. 2011. Fac­ing up to the par­a­digm of eco­log­i­cal inten­si­fi­ca­tion in agron­o­my: Revis­it­ing meth­ods, con­cepts and knowl­edge. Euro­pean Jour­nal of Agron­o­my 34:197–210.