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CESAME Team

CESAME - Design and Evaluation of Agroecological Production Systems with Multiple Objectives

In the CESAME team, our scientific project aims to produce knowledge, methods and tools to support the agroecological transition of agricultural systems. We mainly work on diversified arable and livestock farming systems.

The CESAME team brings together researchers in agronomy and livestock systems, ecophysiology and plant pathology. Our research objectives converge towards the production of knowledge, methods and tools to support the agroecological transition of agricultural systems. We question the relevance of this transition in light of the challenges posed by climate change and biotic and environmental pressures.

We implement methods to co-design agricultural and food systems or scenarios for these systems, test them in situ or in silico, analyze their trajectories, and evaluate their performance using multi-criteria assessment.

Our primary research topics are diversified agricultural systems:

  • at different levels of organization (crops, livestock, farms, territories) aimed, for example, at reducing the quantity of inputs (e.g. mineral fertilizers and pesticides),
  • and at different time horizons (past, present and future trajectories).
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The exploration of this research topic is based on the dialogue and combination of a variety of methods:

  • Co-design and in situ experiments, in stations or on-farms, ‘from the plant and/or animal to their processing or consumption’, integrating multiple issues,
  • Coupling experimentation and modelling at different spatial and temporal scales, for example by using experiments to parameterize models of innovative agricultural systems and simulate them to assess their long-term behavior in the face of different types of disturbances,
  • Comprehensive surveys and analyses of the structure, processes and trajectories of agricultural systems and their link to the territory, and multi-criteria assessments of their performance.

On-going projects of the team :

Modification date: 07 January 2026 | Publication date: 27 September 2013 | By: umr agir