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Stakeholders from academic, political, and social spheres encourage the development of more sustainable forms of agriculture. Given its scale and scope, the sustainability transition is a challenge to the entire agricultural sector. The main question is, how to support the transition process? In this article, we explore how agricultural science can address the sustainability transition of farming systems to understand and support transition processes. We discuss the potential for articulating three research approaches: comprehensive analysis, co-design, and simulation modeling. Comprehensive analysis of the sustainability transition provides perspectives on the interplay between resources, resource management, and related performances of farming systems on the one hand and technical, economic, and sociocultural dimensions of change on the other. Co-design of the sustainability transition stimulates local-scale transition experiments in the real world and identification of alternatives for change. Simulation modeling explores future-oriented scenarios of management at multiple levels and assesses their impacts. We illustrate the articulation of research approaches with two examples of research applied to agricultural water management and autonomy in crop-livestock systems. The resulting conceptual framework is the first one developed to organize research to understand and support the sustainability transition of farming systems.

International audience ; Stakeholders from academic, political or social spheres encourage the development of more sustainable forms of agriculture. Considering the scale and scope of the sustainability transition, it is challenging to the agricultural sector at large. The main question is how to support the transition process? In this communication, we expose how wicked problems related to the sustainability transition of farming systems can be addressed by agricultural science to better understand and support transition processes. We elaborate on the potential for articulation of three research approaches: comprehensive analysis, co-design and simulation modelling that refer to different stances and methodological choices. Comprehensive analysis of the sustainability transition of farming systems provides historical or snapshot perspectives on agricultural and institutional contexts and on the interplay between on one hand, the resources, their management and related performances of farming systems and on the other hand technical, economic and sociocultural dimensions of change. Co-design of the sustainability transition of farming systems stimulates local-scale experiments of transitions in the real world and the identification of alternatives for change from the farming system level to the territorial level. Simulation modelling consists of explorations of scenarios of management at different levels and assessment of their impacts. It offers a future-oriented perspective on transitions. We illustrate this potential for articulation of research approaches by taking the case of two examples of research conducted in our multidisciplinary research group applying to agricultural water management and autonomy in crop-livestock systems. The resulting conceptual framework is the first proposed to organize research to better understand and support sustainability transitions in the agricultural sector.

International audience ; Stakeholders from academic, political, and social spheres encourage the development of more sustainable forms of agriculture. Given its scale and scope, the sustainability transition is a challenge to the entire agricultural sector. The main question is, how to support the transition process? In this article, we explore how agricultural science can address the sustainability transition of farming systems to understand and support transition processes. We discuss the potential for articulating three research approaches: comprehensive analysis, co-design, and simulation modeling. Comprehensive analysis of the sustainability transition provides perspectives on the interplay between resources, resource management, and related performances of farming systems on the one hand and technical, economic, and sociocultural dimensions of change on the other. Co-design of the sustainability transition stimulates local-scale transition experiments in the real world and identification of alternatives for change. Simulation modeling explores future-oriented scenarios of management at multiple levels and assesses their impacts. We illustrate the articulation of research approaches with two examples of research applied to agricultural water management and autonomy in crop-livestock systems. The resulting conceptual framework is the first one developed to organize research to understand and support the sustainability transition of farming systems.

Stakeholders from academic, political or social spheres encourage the development of more sustainable forms of agriculture. Considering the scale and scope of the sustainability transition, it is challenging to the agricultural sector at large. The main question is how to support the transition process? In this communication, we expose how wicked problems related to the sustainability transition of farming systems can be addressed by agricultural science to better understand and support transition processes. We elaborate on the potential for articulation of three research approaches: comprehensive analysis, co-design and simulation modelling that refer to different stances and methodological choices. Comprehensive analysis of the sustainability transition of farming systems provides historical or snapshot perspectives on agricultural and institutional contexts and on the interplay between on one hand, the resources, their management and related performances of farming systems and on the other hand technical, economic and sociocultural dimensions of change. Co-design of the sustainability transition of farming systems stimulates local-scale experiments of transitions in the real world and the identification of alternatives for change from the farming system level to the territorial level. Simulation modelling consists of explorations of scenarios of management at different levels and assessment of their impacts. It offers a future-oriented perspective on transitions. We illustrate this potential for articulation of research approaches by taking the case of two examples of research conducted in our multidisciplinary research group applying to agricultural water management and autonomy in crop-livestock systems. The resulting conceptual framework is the first proposed to organize research to better understand and support sustainability transitions in the agricultural sector.

L'initiative "4 pour mille : les sols pour la sécurité alimentaire et le climat" propose d'augmenter chaque année d'un quatre millième le stock de carbone présent dans tous les sols du monde. À la demande de l'Ademe et du ministère de l'Agriculture et de l'Alimentation, l'Inra (devenu aujourd'hui INRAE) a conduit une étude, centrée sur la France métropolitaine, visant à estimer le potentiel de stockage de carbone des sols agricoles et forestiers et, in fine, à mesurer la contribution potentielle de ce levier à l'objectif de réduction des émissions nettes de gaz à effet de serre. Diverses pratiques candidates (cultures intermédiaires, apport de nouvelles ressources organiques, gestion des prairies, agroforesterie…) ont été évaluées. Les résultats obtenus ont montré une forte variabilité du stockage additionnel de carbone. L'étude a également permis d'estimer le coût supplémentaire, pour les agriculteurs, de mise en oeuvre de ces pratiques de stockage, puis une allocation de l'effort de stockage entre les pratiques et les régions a été effectuée. Ces données permettront aux différents acteurs concernés de faire les meilleurs choix pour stocker davantage de carbone dans les sols. Cet ouvrage s'adresse aux décideurs chargés de l'élaboration des politiques publiques climatiques dans le domaine agricole, aux responsables territoriaux, aux aménageurs, aux ingénieurs et techniciens, aux agriculteurs et à l'ensemble des citoyens intéressés par la problématique de l'agriculture et du changement climatique.