Paper presented at the 52nd CFCS Annual Meeting, Guadeloupe, July 10-16, 2016 What has been discussed? Topic 1 - Viability, efficiency and resilience of agrosystems - Agroecological transition The necessity of a common language (confidence, collective sharing, representations, projects), long run Which organizational and institutional arrangements? Which incentives? From where to whom? − The strength of words and its performativity − The importance of stakeholders’ representations and status in promoting change Building organizational myths − Caribbean : great contribution to climate change (GGE) − Lack of farmers’ awareness − GMO and farmers’ choices − Integrated livestock systems increase both efficiency and resilience (Guadeloupe) − New methods and models Topic 2 : Local experiences, networks, resistance of farming systems Sustaining Small farming and diversified agriculture Some insights on some concrete actions (market and non market) Promoting change through education and formation Based-field research Problem-based learning, participatory learning, joint learning, experience-based learning How to be sure that farmers will benefit from these educational returns? How to measure the impacts of these new forms of apprenticeship? And the consumers: how to educate them?
Topic 3 : The future of agriculture
Agrimonde explores 5 contrasted scenarios of land use and food securtity by 2050 Metropolization Regionalization Households Healthy Communities Use of scenario as intermediary tools to build the future
Modelization of arable lands (Guadeloupe) Crops production determinants
215