Farmers and agronomists design new biological agricultural practices for organic cropping systems in France

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• 作者：Vincent Lefèvre (1) (2)
  Mathieu Capitaine (1)
  Joséphine Peigné (2)
  Jean Roger-Estrade (3)
  
• 关键词：Design method ; Farmers-participation ; Agricultural innovation ; Organic farming ; Cover crops ; Reduced (or no ; ) tillage
• 刊名：Agronomy for Sustainable Development
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：July 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：34
• 期：3
• 页码：623-632
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• 作者单位：Vincent Lefèvre (1) (2)
  Mathieu Capitaine (1)
  Joséphine Peigné (2)
  Jean Roger-Estrade (3)
  
  1. VetAgro Sup, UMR AgroParisTech, Inra, Clermont Université, Irstea, VetAgro Sup, 1273 Métafort, 63370, Lempdes, France
  2. Agroecology and Environment, ISARA Lyon, 23 rue Jean Baldassini, 69364, Lyon cedex 7, France
  3. AgroParisTech, INRA, UMR 211 Agronomie, Thiverval-Grignon, France
  
• ISSN：1773-0155

文摘

New organic cropping systems are needed to keep pace with the growing demand for organic food. Those systems should ideally give more yield and safe for the environment. Current innovations such as non-inversion tillage with cover crops are promising, but investigations usually do not take farmers view into account. Therefore, research work should include farmer participation to maximize success. We present here a method to help farmers in designing innovative cropping systems. This method involves several design workshops with farmers. The first steps of the method foster creativity by changing ways in which farmers thought and worked. The final steps of the method facilitated learning. Participatory tools are used to exchange views and knowledge. System prototypes were developed. The method was applied using groups of six and seven farmers from two French regions. The farmers generated 14 system prototypes. We found that system prototypes differed radically from current practices because prototypes are based on biological rather than mechanical methods. Indeed, cover crop use was almost four times more frequent in prototypes than in current systems. Moldboard plowing and mechanical weeding frequencies were, respectively, two and eight times lower. The main benefits of our method are (1) the involvement of volunteer farmers in the design process, (2) the combination of farmer knowledge and scientific knowledge, and (3) the use of various methodological supports.