La nature comme modèle, pour une intensification écologique de l'agriculture

24/02/2010 - Article

How can agriculture be both environmentally friendly and intensive? A brochure, produced for distribution to the general public at the 2010 Paris International Agricultural Show, gives some answers and examples.

How can we build sustainable farming systems capable of feeding nine billion people by 2050 and providing them with energy and biomaterials, while preserving the environment and resources? This is the challenge that underlies the expression "ecological intensification".

In its fifteen or so pages, CIRAD's large-format brochure, produced each year for the Paris International Agricultural Show, covers the topic, juxtaposing opinions, eyewitness accounts, examples, and research results or projects. It is lavishly illustrated and enables the general public to become familiar with the topic.

Each double-page spread tackles a specific aspect: issues, nature as a model, the humid tropical climate, the dry tropical climate, the Mediterranean climate, and agricultural research and innovation.

La nature comme modèle, pour une intensification écologique de l'agriculture
Coordinated by Anne Hébert
Designed and produced by Denis Delebecque
CIRAD, 2010