SEA tiendra son 18e congrès "Synergies for a resilient future: from knowledge to action" à Rennes (35) du 26 au 30/08/2024

Paru le 10-03-2024 |

La European Society for Agronomy (ESA - Société Européenne d'Agronomie) tiendra son prochain congrès à Rennes du 26 au 30 aout, intitulé "Synergies for a resilient future: from knowledge to action" organisé par l’Institut Agro Rennes-Angers et en collaboration avec l'INRAE

voir site web du congrès ici

"Des synergies pour un avenir résilient : de la connaissance à l'action" est un congrès pour promouvoir l'échange d'expériences scientifiques et pratiques entre experts en agronomie.

L'objectif de ce 18e Congrès est de transformer les vertébrés dans les systèmes agricoles avec de nouvelles alliances et synergies. Ce congrès fait suite à celui de Postdam, en Allemagne, qui a rassemblé plus de 246 participants du monde entier.

Deux thématiques de synergies correspondent à notre réseau et nous vous proposons de les découvrir ici :

• Synergies of technologies

The art of field cultivation essentially involves optimising the interplay between plants (genotype G), environmental conditions (E), and applied management (M). Various technologies support this continuous quest for economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable agriculture. Technologies include, but are not limited to, mechanical and digital tools, data sources, simulation modelling, artificial intelligence, and breeding that offer new options for the management of agroecosystems under climate change. However, the potential of these recent innovations has been investigated in isolation, and less is known about their combined, synergistic potential. The synergistic use of technologies can foster exploring a novel GxExM optimisation. In this track, we invite contributions that address solutions to ethical, environmental, and economic issues related to technologies, particularly where resource efficiency, yield stability and workability have been demonstrably improved by the synergy of newly introduced technologies.

• Synergies between disciplines

Climate change and biodiversity erosion pose challenges and risks for agriculture that are difficult to address with commonly used agronomic practices, such as fertilisation, irrigation, crop protection, and tillage. Agriculture itself is also contributing to climate change and environmental degradation. In addition, agriculture is dependent on input of resources, many of which are non-renewable, and we are reaching a point where these resources are becoming critically limiting for food, feed and fiber production. Agroecological solutions supporting resilient systems based principles that nature has developed over millions of years may be a way forward to revert these negative trends. This direction is a great challenge for agriculture as resilience is an emergent property with many internal (soil-plant interactions) and external regulations (management practices, climate). The perspective of soil-plant interactions, diversification measures, and improved management practices to create resilient cropping systems brings new scientific and practical questions and a need for dialogue between disciplines. In this track, we invite contributions that address perspectives on the plant-soil nexus of nature-based solutions for renewing agriculture and preservation of natural resources under climate change. This includes, for example, ecological studies on plant interactions, plant-microbe interactions, considerations in plant breeding programs, and innovative amendments and fertilisers.