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OBJECTIVES

It will examine the prospects of more effective crop-animal integration as a development path for organic farming at both the scale of the farm and of the territory, that would make it possible to increase the self-sufficiency of farms, particularly from the point of view of animal feed and the supply of organic fertilizers.

The project brings together expertise in zootechnics, agronomy, system co-design, multicriteria assessment, food and participative approaches. It consists of three complementary tasks with the following objectives:

•  to identify the brakes and levers for the development of organic agriculture (OA) in the DROM;
•  to identify innovations proposed by farmers and to assess them in conjunction with the stakeholders;
•  to co-build plausible scenarios for the larger-scale adoption of these innovations via the organization of prospective workshops.

RESOURCES

SelbioDOM will provide knowledge about:

• the factors that determine conversion to OA, the unraveling of socio-technical systems, and sector dynamics within a tropical overseas context;
• possible forms of co-existence between systems integrated into the sectors and those that are more dispersed and self-sufficient.

Participants

INRAE units

• ASTRO, Petit Bourg
• INNOVATION, Montpellier
• SADAPT, Grignon
• SELMET, Montpellier
• TERRITOIRES, Clermont Ferrand
• URZ, Petit Bourg

Partners

• CIRAD