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TETRAPARTITE 2008
French country report
Research towards sustainable agricultures
Marion Guillou
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AGRICULTURE
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French policy: towards strong autonomous universities
 Regulation, 18 April 2006
 Clusters of excellence (PRES, RTRA)
 National agency for performance evaluation
(AERES)
 Reinforces the national research agency (ANR)
 Regulation 7 August 2006
 Graduate schools, formalization by contract open to
research institutes
 Regulation 10 August 2007
 Universities’ autonomy
 “Campus’ initiative
 May 2008
 Reshaping of research institutes
 On-going
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French policy: sustainable development as a priority
 Ministry of ecology, energy, sustainable development and area development
 One minister, 4 secretaries
Transportation
 Ecology
 Development of capital region
 Town and country planning
 5 main missions :
Areas and habitats;
Energy and climate;
Sustainable development;
 Risk prevention;
 Infrastructures (transportations & see)
 Grenelle de l’environnement to shape
the French environmental policy
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French policy: food before agriculture
 Importance of the food chain
 Reform of the administration
 Impact of the reform of the Common Agricultural
Policy
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INRA Budget and activities
Total budget: 745.7 M€ for 2008 (+2.2 % vs. 2007)
80% from the national research budget
Agricultural
systems 26%
Policies & actors
6%
Environment 21%
Food 15%
Generic research
16%
Products &
processes 16%
1,800 scientists; 2,400 research assistants; 4,200 technicians
1,700 PhD students
1,000 scientists coming from partner organizations
more than 1,200 international visiting fellows / year
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INRA in the new French research landscape
 ANR
 Proposals for programs and foresights
 AERES
 Evaluation of the laboratories in 2008
 Institute in 2009
 Definition of performance criteria specific to targeted
research
 Attractivity
 Larger dissemination of the positions
 Evolution of the recruitment procedures
 On-going mobility and career diversity
 On-going training and salary conditions of the managers
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How to improve partnership and social implication ?
 Partnership as a basis for orientation
 Partnership “mission”
 Evolution of the scientific council of the research
centers
 Collective expertises
 Foresight studies
 CAP 2013
 « Agrimonde »
 Novel ruralities
 New « rendez vous »
 Carrefours de l’Innovation agronomique every 6
months on a specific application
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How to reinforce our international anchoring
 Involvement in world agriculture research with CIRAD
 Common organization: French Initiative for International Agriculture
Research
 Common scientific actions (animal health, forests, horticulture)
 International symposium 3rd June, Paris
 Development of founding partnership
 Ways and means
 Cooperation
Packages: balanced contribution to launch calls
 Permanent representations: India, Brazil, China
 Beyond bilateral projects: European projects (Era-net Arimnet; Metahit)
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Impact of the strategic orientations
Environment
40
30
2001
20
f
Farming
systems
2002
Nutrition
10
2003
2004
0
Generic knowledge
2005
Products
% of the publications
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Developments and issues
 Grenelle de l’environnement
 “CAP environnement” initiative, application of the results
 Presentations at the scientific councils of the
departments, questionnaire => proposals
Adaptation to global change
 Infrastructures for observations and experimentation on
continental ecosystems
 Integrated productions
 Trademarks for production systems
 Agriculture and biodiversity
 Plant biotechnologies
 Reinforcement on specific issues
Biomass for bioenergy and green chemistry
Innovative farming systems
Human nutrition
Water management
Global change
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Developments and issues
 Internationalization
 Attractiveness
 Balance between capacity building and competitive
projects
 Towards a greater specialization of our regional research
centers
 Research and higher education: cross fertilization
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INRA Team
Delegation:  Marion Guillou, Chair and chief executive officer
 Guy Riba, Deputy General Director
 Xavier Leverve, Scientific Director for Human Nutrition and Food
Safety
 Michel Dodet, Vice President
 Bernard Chapentier, Director of International Affairs
 Muriel Mambrini, Adviser
To welcome you:  Benoît Fauconneau, President of Bordeaux Research Centre
 Laurence Garmendia, Vice head of Plant and plant productions
department in charge of partnership
 Wanda Fasoli, Foreign Visitors and Congress, International affairs
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Thank you for your attention
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