18th Congress of the European Society for Agronomy

Crop-livestock integration is a theoretical ideal for sustainable agriculture. Albeit decreasing due to limiting factors at the farm level (e.g. work constraints), crop-livestock integration beyond farm level is seen as a promising option. However, local integration between neighbouring farms requires collective redesign to address organizational issues faced with increasing levels of spatial...

There is need for a transition of the food system towards more sustainable cultivation methods and more plant-based diets (Billen et al., 2021; Willett et al., 2020). Community supported agriculture (CSA) may have a positive environmental impact locally and increase vegetable intake among members (Medici et al., 2023). It is a format for provisioning food locally, where consumers to various...

Moving towards sustainable and input-efficient cropping systems involves analyzing farmers' practices, particularly those related to managing plant health. Understanding the knowledge they use and the underlying logic guiding their practices (Altieri, 2004) is crucial. Agronomy often focuses on describing and evaluating the technical sequences adopted by farmers but pays less attention to...

INTRODUCTION: In Europe, increasing the area cultivated with grain legumes has been identified as a lever to mitigate and adapt to climate change. However, climate change will also impact these crops (Marteau-Bazouni et al., 2024). It is thus necessary to explore adaptation options to sustain grain legume performances in the context of climate change.
To better design innovations for...

1/ Introduction

Organic agriculture (OA) has been identified as key strategy in the European Green Deal to increase the agricultural area dedicated to OA from the current 10% to 25%. One of the key challenges to achieve this goal is the careful management and improved circularity of nutrients, particularly nitrogen, which is a limiting factor for the expansion of OA agri-food...