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Christophe Soulard
Director of Joint Research Unit
Montpellier, France
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Innovation and Development in Agriculture and the Agrifoods Sector

Joint Research Unit (UMR) - UMR Innovation

The processes through which agriculture adapts are founded on technical and organizational innovations, on both a collective and an individual level.

The unit conducts research on these innovation processes, which are seen as individual and collective action processes on a technical and organizational level. It covers the whole of the process, from players' reasons for innovating up to the development effects generated by the innovations. It works in France and overseas , with numerous researchers and research projects worldwide. The UMR's interdisciplinary project is a pool of expertise in biotechnical sciences (agronomy) and social sciences (economics, sociology, anthropology, geography, management sciences, and law).