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Farmers, researchers, advisors, companies, associations, decision-makers... nearly 450 participants met in Normandy on 25 and 26 June 2019 for the second European Agricultural Innovation Summit "Agri Innovation Summit 2019" (AIS 2019) dedicated to the contribution of the "European Innovation Partnership for Productive and Sustainable Agriculture" (PEI AGRI) to the agro-ecological transition. About a hundred multi-partner projects were presented.
Opened by the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, the French Minister for Agriculture and Food and the President of the Normandy Region, the summit began with a debate on the future of innovation policy in agriculture and forestry. Philippe Mauguin, CEO of INRA, Christian Huyghe, Scientific Director of INRA and Jean-Louis Peyraud, Deputy Scientific Director of Agriculture at INRA were among the speakers.

The following issues were on the agenda:

• How can inputs be reduced to increase farm autonomy?
• What production systems for sustainable natural resource management?
• How to succeed in integrating agro-ecology with the downstream, the consumer, the citizen, the territory?
• How to succeed in disseminating and appropriating knowledge and innovations at all levels?

The facilitators of the PSDR Grand Ouest Sant'Innov project presented their work on the reduction of antibiotics and the maintenance of grassland at the animal, farm and chain levels in the dairy, beef cattle and swine sectors. The questions asked in the workshop mainly concerned the epidemiological and economic study of the beef cattle industry and the impact of the organisation of the industry on health risks and antibiotic consumption. The modelling of an optimised "grazing" logistics in relation to sanitary criteria will be presented at SPACE 2019. The advisory tools developed with the Terrena cooperative around the assessment of the risk of broncho-infectious diseases per batch of young beef cattle (Atless grid), or the measurement of the well-being of cattle at pasture (Tibena), also attracted the attention of the participants. Other themes of the project, such as the search for innovative solutions to reduce the use of antibiotics via livings labs or the relationship of trust between farmers and veterinarians, are continued in the European project H2020 ROADMAP.

Presentation of the project Sant'innov © Inra

The facilitators of the LIT Ouest Territoires d'Elevage presented their work during the round table on the success factors of co-creation, dissemination and appropriation of knowledge and innovations at all levels in the service of the agro-ecological transition. As a first step, the ambition of the LIT and its engineering phase over the past two years were presented to the audience. Secondly, the setting up of the LIT OUESTEREL living lab in its three pilot territories was presented as a solution to this problem. The LIT OUESTEREL Association, whose statutes will be submitted in the summer of 2019, will support this territorial living lab in the Grand Ouest.
More about the summit :Organized jointly by the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food, the French Regions, the Normandy Region, the European network of the PEI Agri and the European Commission, the AIS 2019 brought together the actors of the PEI projects from all over Europe as well as field actors and specialists in knowledge and innovation systems of agriculture and forestry. This event provided an opportunity to exchange on the contribution of the participatory approaches of the IEP-AGRI (operational groups, co-financed by the Common Agricultural Policy, and multi-actor projects supported by the European Research Policy) to the agro-ecological transition.

Learn more about the Sant'Innov project : https://www6.inra.fr/santinnov

More about LIT Ouest Territoires d'Elevage :https://www6.inra.fr/lit-ouest-territoires-elevage

Contacts

Scientific contacts :

•  Florence Beaugrand UMR BIOEPAR
•  Hervé Guyomard

Associated Departments : Santé animale

Associated Centres : Pays de la Loire, Bretagne-Normandie