Agro-Ecological Participative Transformation of systems (TAPAGE)

Context and challenges

The major challenges of agricultural development in the countries of the South are emerging or are being confirmed: improvement and stabilization of production over time, respect for natural areas and protection of biodiversity, the need to reduce the use of pesticides, climate change requiring both adaptation and mitigation.

The agronomic and methodological skills of the team on the co-design of cropping systems and agro-ecological engineering will be mobilized in integrative approaches involving different scales and disciplines.
The TAPAGE team is working on functional biodiversity management to mobilize within cropping systems (CS) ecological processes serving Integrated Fertility Management (IFM) and Agroecological Crop Protection (ECAP).