INARI: Innovation and Novel Approaches for Integrative Research in Agroecology

The team brings together researchers in agroecology, ecology, ecophysiology, design, management science, psychology, and geography. This disciplinary diversity allows us to address interactions between human and environmental systems from multiple angles, both for knowledge production and for supporting stakeholders.

These systems pose specific challenges, requiring both local grounding, to account for the particularities of farming contexts and a move toward abstraction, to identify generalizable patterns.

We propose several options to address these challenges: analyzing and establishing causal relationships using observational data from real-world conditions; building analytical frameworks to handle uncertainty and knowledge gaps; advancing alternative forms of knowledge by moving beyond the divide between academic and practical knowledge; designing and testing approaches for social learning, training, facilitation, and co-design. Our research targets the academic communities of sustainability science and complexity science.

On-going projects of the team

• MOBIDIV : Mobilizing and Breeding Intra and inter-specific crop Diversity for a systemic change towards pesticide-free agriculture
• TFC : Transifions fondées sur les communautés