S.4.1: Plenary introductory session

Chairs: Jean Boiffin (INRA-AFA) and Florent Maraux (CIRAD)

Welcome by Etienne Landais (Director of Montpellier SupAgro)

Introduction by Jean Boiffin (AFA President)

Keynote speaker: Jean-Marc Meynard (Head of the Research Division 'Science for Action and Sustainable Development' INRA, France)
Innovative Design of Agricultural System

Keynote speaker: Harold Roy-Macauley (Director of Programs, West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development ,WECARD/CORAF, Sénégal)
Place of Agronomic Research in the Process of Innovation in Africa: Looking through the lenses of the CAADP

S.4.2.1: Parallel session “Europe”
Chair: Jean Boiffin

Introduction

• AGROCLIMA-SSP v1.1 a tool for Scientific Support to Policies for strategy assessment in agricultural systems under climate change scenarios (Margarita Ruiz-Ramos, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
• SPACSS, a prototype for decision-makers aiming at designing cropping system distributions with stakeholders (Delphine Leenhardt, INRA Toulouse, France)
• Designing innovative farming systems in catchments to limit diffuse pollution: development of a coupled model to assess farmer strategies in mitigation options implementation (Pierre Moreau, INRA Rennes, France)
• Accompanying farmers in the search of technical alternatives for Organic Rice Production in Camargue, south of France (Santiago Lopez Ridaura, INRA Montpellier, France)

S.4.2.2: Parallel session “Africa”
Chair: Florent Maraux

Introduction

• Entrepreneurship as driver of a 'Self-Organizing System of Innovation': the case of NERICA in Benin (Dalohoun Daniel Nougbegnon, Africa Rice Center, Benin)
• From Labs to Farms: Agronomic Research Outcomes Transfer (Marie Chave, INRA, French West Indies)
• Market garden production systems in periurban area of Mahajanga. Determinants of agricultural practices of organic fertilizer for technical innovation (Heriniaina Ramahefarison, Laboratoire des RadioIsotopes, Madagascar)
• Opportunities for enhancing crop yield in drought-prone south-east Zimbabwe (Chrispen Murungweni, Wageningen University, The Netherlands)

S.4.3: Plenary closing session

Chair: Bernard Triomphe (CIRAD, France)

Introduction

• Designing innovative cropping systems with stakeholders : how to begin? (Lorène Prost, INRA Grignon, France)
• Which agronomic references for decision support tools? (Pierre-Yves Le Gal, CIRAD, France)
• An agent-based simulator co-designed with farmers for sharing knowledge about land-water use and labour migrations in rainfed lowland rice (Christophe LePage, CIRAD, France)
• Farmers’ learning processes in implementing low input field crop agriculture (Emilia Chantre, INRA Grignon, France)
• A multi-actors experimental network to assess innovative arable cropping systems (Violaine Deytieux, INRA Breteniere, France)