BARZMAN , Marc

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Développement local des territoires >The Community-conscious Farmer Les agriculteurs contribuent à l'attractivité du territoire. Les services qu'ils produisent sont reconnus par les acteurs du territoire.

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This paper is based on the work done in the French research project Gedupic (Gestion écologique de la santé des plantes) which brings together agricultural and social scientists around the issues of transition towards integrated production. Three case studies on wheat, weeds in arable crops and orchards make possible the study of transitions in...

Environmental policy development increasingly refers to procedural approaches where local organisational structures are set up to initiate social interactions, to establish common working methods and to formulate collective agreements. In a context of complexity and uncertainty regarding environmental issues at stake, deliberations are mostly...

Climate change is increasingly perceived as one of the major constraints that limit agricultural productivity. Crop losses due to climate change could be direct, such as damages through flooding or storms, or indirect such as altered distribution of crop pests. The real impact of climate change at global level is yet uncertain and likely...

Agriculture faces the challenge of meeting increasing food demands whilst simultaneously satisfying ever stringent sustainability goals. Taken together with the ever increasing rate of integrated globalisation and other anthropogenic impacts, this challenge is further complicated by climate change. Climate change is indeed increasingly...

The use of pesticides made it possible to increase yields, simplify cropping systems, and forego more complicated crop protection strategies. Over-reliance on chemical control, however, is associated with contamination of ecosystems and undesirable health effects. The future of crop production is now also threatened by emergence of pest...