1st C-BASC Scientific Day (March 14, 2023)

The Centre d'études interdiciplinaires sur la biodiversité, l'Agroécologie, la Société et le Climat organized its first C-BASC Scientific Day in mid-March at IDEEV. Open to all university staff, registration was free and compulsory. This first edition focused on projects that have been supported for some time. Click on the presentations to discover them.

Program

8.50am-9.15am: Welcome breakfast

9h15-9h35 - Introductory remarks by the coordinating team: Paul Leadly, Maia David, Philippe Martin and Diane Maurissen

9h35-10h50: Research highlights in the C-BASC community

• Flux local project of the VivAgriLab living lab (territorial metabolism; sources and use of organic matter (PROs); diversification (legumes, vegetables); local and sustainable food systems) - Ninon Gréau and Sabine Houot
• Experimental and conservatory orchard of wild apple trees - Amandine Hansart
• Pitch for a thesis co-funded by C-BASC: International trade, biological invasions and biodiversity preservation policy: interactions and issues, Jean-Marc Akole

10h50-11h20 - Break

11:20-12:30: Research highlights from the C-BASC community

• Innovations for agri-food systems - IDEAS network and INDISS project contributions to co-design - Jean-Marc Meynard (15 min + 10 min Q&A)
• Nitrogen fertilizers, agriculture and land use: a cross-section of scenarios - LabEx BASC's STIMUL project and links with the CLAND convergence institute - Raja Chakir and Thierry Brunelle
• Pitch for a thesis co-financed by C-BASC: Food systems and catering: what are the vectors for disseminating more sustainable food practices? Emmanuel Raynaud

12:30-13:30: Lunch (buffet)

13h30-15h00: The future of C-BASC: Examples of current and future activities

•  Living lab VivAgriLab: Overview, AMI Démonstrateurs Territoriaux, LEADER renewal, interactions with California - Paul Leadley and Dorian Spaak
• Links with companies: survey feedback/discussion - Philippe Martin
• Agroecology network - links between C-BASC and Graduate school Biosphera - Safia Mediene

15h00-15h45 - Break - posters

• Development of an agricultural drain detection method: the hydraulic challenge of the Saclay plateau DRAIN-ACT (Julien Tournebize INRAE et al.)
• How to measure local diversity? Introducing remote diversity measurements (Éric Marcon AgroParisTech and Florence Puech PSAE)
• Limitation of Bird Damage to Crops (LIDO) Michel BERTRAND (INRAE)- Christophe SAUSSE (Terres Inovia)- Lucie ZGAINSKI (INRAE)
• Differential exposure to climate extremes agroforestry areas in two Neotropical, Andres González-González et Juan Fernández-Manjarrés (CNRS, ESE)
• Applying interval PCA and clustering to quantile estimates: empirical distributions of fertilizer cost for yearly crops in European Countries (Dominique Desbois, PSAE)

3:45pm - 5:00pm

• Round table discussion on the challenges of nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides: biodiversity, agriculture, food and climate. French, European and international perspectives (especially CBD COP 15) - Paul Leadley, Vincent Martinet and Philippe Martin