8:00 am

Welcoming of participants

9:00-9:30 am

Institutional opening

Coffee break

9 :30-10 :30 am

Key note 1: Andy Hall (United Nations University)

Agricultural Innovation Systems: The Shape of Things to Come

11:00-12:30 am

Parallel sessions (long presentations)

1-E. Towards environmental services: change in practices and policies (Antigone 1)

1-F. Conciliating production and conservation at the landscape level  (Joffre 4)

2-B. Producer inclusion and social equity: reducing poverty and enhancing food security (Joffre B)

2-E. Territorial innovations to enable social inclusion (Joffre A)

2-F. International rights, innovation and social equity (Joffre C)

3-E. Recognition of traditional knowledge for sustainable innovations (Sully 1)

4-B. New forms of governance for agricultural peri-urban spaces (Barthez 2)

4-D. Local/global tensions in innovation processes of agro-food systems  (Sully 2)

4-G. Agricultural advisory services: towards an innovation system approach 

4-H. Analysis of multiactor processes 

5-B. New research partnerships for plant breeding and conservation of biodiversity 

5-D. Crossdisciplinary approaches for knowledge integration: frameworks and methods

12:30-2:00 pm

Lunch break

2:00-3:00 pm

Key note 2: Prabuh Pingali (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation)

Strategies for Ensuring Sustainable Agricultural Productivity Growth

3:15-4:15 pm

Parallel exchange sessions (short presentations)

1-a. Assessment of new techniques or processes : cropping systems

1-c. Agroecology and ecological intensification : from paradigms to local experimentations

1-e. Towards environmental services: change in farming practices

2-b bis. Enhancing food security 

3-e. Recognition of traditional naturalist knowledge

3-f bis. Methods and training to build knowledge and capacities   

4-b. New forms of governance for agricultural peri-urban spaces

4-d. Local/global tensions in innovation processes of agro-food systems 

4-h Analysis of multiactor processes 

4-j. Understanding the determinants of innovations in rural societies

5-a. The greening of agricultural research 

5-b. New research partnerships for plant breeding

Coffee break

4:45-5:45 pm

Parallel exchange sessions (short presentations)

1-a. Assessment of new techniques or processes: combining crop and animal systems

1-c. Agroecology and ecological intensification : from paradigms to local experimentations

1-e bis. Towards environmental services: what policies 

1-d. Towards quality production: conditions of success

2-d. Local food networks: fostering social cohesion and equity 

3-e. Recognition of traditional crafts knowledge

3-f bis. Methods and training to build knowledge and capacities   

4-b. New forms of governance for agricultural peri-urban spaces

4-f. Certification: an institutional innovation to foster sustainability? 

4-j bis. Understanding the determinants of innovations linked to markets access

5-b bis. Learning seed systems to impulse new partnerships for agrobiodiversity conservation

5-d. Enhancing dialogue between science and society   

6:00-7:00 pm

Further discussion around posters

Launching of books

Awards of the Sud’Innov contest (and cocktail offered by ARIA)

9:00-

10:00 am

Key note 3: Juliana Santilli (Prosecutor, Public Ministry, Brasil)

Innovating to enhance agrobiodiversity, recognize collective intellectual rights and enable more social equity

Coffee break

10:30-12:30

Parallel sessions (long presentations)

1-A. Assessment of new techniques or processes 

1-C. Agroecology and ecological intensification : from paradigms to local experimentations 

2-A. Impacts of innovations on poverty reduction 

2-C. Innovating in urban agriculture to improve food security and social equity 

3-A. New forms of engagement in agriculture and food: care, exploration and leasure. What photos and video can reveal? 

3-B. Conciliating different stakeholder views around common issues 

3-C. Innovation brokers 

4-A. Innovations and territorial governance  

4-E. Social construction of standards and chains 

4-K. Implementing innovation systems in practice: advancement and challenges 

5-A. The greening of agricultural research 

5-E. Research to deal with adaptative and resilient socio-ecological systems

12:30-

2:00 pm

Lunch break

2:00-

3:30 pm

Parallel Round tables

Innovation systems in practice: challenges and perspectives

Organised with the World Bank

Innovation policies in the Mediterranean Region

Organised with OECD, FIDA and ArimNet

Regional dynamics of innovation

Organised in partnership with the Languedoc-Roussillon region and the PSDR project (Pour et Sur le Développement Régional).

3:45-

4:45 pm

Parallel exchange sessions (short presentations)

1-b. Assessment methods of innovation at a farm scale 

1-c bis. Considering agro-biodiversity and agrosystems to build innovation

2-b. Producer inclusion and social equity

2-e. Territorial innovations to enable social inclusion

3-A. New forms of engagement in agriculture and food (continued)

3-f. Farmer learning communities and knowledge hybridisation

4-a. Innovations and territorial governance: managing common resources  

4-e. Social construction of standards and chains 

4-g. Agricultural advisory services: formal and informal information systems 

4-k. Implementing innovation systems in practice: advancement and challenges 

5-c. Participatory research for innovation 

5-e. Research to deal with adaptative and resilient socio-ecological systems

Coffee break

5:15-6:15 pm

Parallel exchange sessions (short presentations)

1-b bis. Assessment methods of innovation at farm-region scale 

1-c bis. Considering agro-biodiversity and agrosystems to build innovation

1-e ter. Towards environmental services: interactions and trade-offs

1-f. Conciliating production and conservation at the landscape level  

2-e bis. Innovation through social inclusion of new actors   

3-a. Enhancing innovation and addressing marginalised voices through photo and video

3-f. Farmer learning communities and knowledge hybridisation

4-a. Innovations and territorial governance: agricultural development projects

4-c. Territorial impact of innovations in food systems 

4-g bis. Agricultural advisory services: institutional construction 

4-k. Implementing innovation systems in practice: advancement and challenges 

5-c. Participatory research for innovation 

6:00-7:00 pm

Further discussion around posters

7:00

Departure to the reception (transport provided)

8:00-11:00 pm

Tasting innovation! : « buffet paysan » with local and traditional food

9:00-

10:00 am

Key note 4: Aliou Diagne (co-auteur de Papa Seck) (Africa-Rice)

How to conceive innovating agricultural policies in Africa to feed this continent in a sustainable and sustained way?

Coffee break

10:30-12:30

Parallel sessions (long presentations)

1-B. Assessment methods of innovation at different scales 

1-D. Impact of certification on production processes 

2-D. Local food networks: fostering social cohesion and equity 

3-D. Understanding the perception of actors to enable adaptation to change 

3-F. Farmer learning communities and knowledge hybridisation

1-G. Innovating to enable cohabitation between various usages in peri-urban areas 

4-C. Territorial impact of innovations in food systems 

4-F. Certification: an institutional innovation to foster sustainability? 

4-J. Understanding the organizational and strategic determinants of the adoption of innovations 

4-I. Financing innovation for sustainability 

5-C. Participatory research for innovation 

5-F. Open source knowledge for agrarian development

12:30-2:00 pm

Lunch break

2:00-

3:00 pm

Key note 5 : Lawrence Busch (Michigan State University and Lancaster University)

Acting sustainably: Governance through standards in a times of « corporate science »

3:00-

4:00 pm

Final round table

Innovation systems: links to be developed between research, policy and society

Reports from sessions and proposals

Coffee break

4:30-

5:30 pm

Final round table (continued)

Reactions from representatives and stakeholders

5:30-

6:00 pm

Conclusions

Topic

Program

Innovations in organic agriculture

Visit to several organic rice farms in Camargue Regional Park (region located east of Montpellier in the Rhône estuary)

Innovating by simplifying: developing  short circuits

Visit to several producers who have chosen short-circuit strategies: local markets, direct sales, producer associations.

Innovating collectively to develop new quality markets

Visit to wine cooperatives in Languedoc to discuss their adaptation strategies in the face of increasing global competitiveness.

Innovating to maintain traditions

Visit to Roquefort cheese cellars and discussion with those involved in the promotion of registered designation of origin (AOC) and rural development.

Innovation in peri-urban areas

Visit to actors involved in peri-urban land planning, short walk to an overlook for a landscape interpretation.