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The Different Areas of Intervention of the Metaprogram

Living with Pests

​​​​​​Achieving the agroecological transition raises the question of our ability to live with pests. This leads us to redefine what plant health is, shifting from a context where any pest risk is chemically eliminated to a context where the farmer manages an agroecological system.

 

Monitoring to Anticipate

Living with pests in agroecological systems, with very limited curative treatment options, requires enhanced epidemiological surveillance to adapt control methods and anticipate risks, including a range of approaches to be combined (mathematical, biological, economic, organizational, etc.).

 

Resistance

The SuMCrop symposium in October 2022, Designing and Using Resistant Varieties for More Sustainable Agriculture, generated great interest among researchers, businesses, and agricultural sectors. The discussions raised shared questions that need to be addressed.

 

The Health Territory Concept

The agroecological transition will involve coupling action scales, from the plot to the landscape. The body of results on the possibilities of pest control at the landscape scale has expanded over the past 10-15 years, but much remains to be done. Beyond purely ecological aspects, the question of implementing territorialized management strategies and the levers of action to be mobilized arises.