Divercrop meeting in Tunis décembre 2017

Le programme

Programme atelier de travail DIVERCROP Tunis – FR

Programme atelier de travail DIVERCROP Tunis – EN

Présentations 

WP1 – Spatial Database (Fusco Johanna, Mouléry Michel, Villani Ricardo, Bondeau Alberte, Hinojosa Leonith) – Public access

WP2 – Land system (Marta Debolini, Johanna Fusco)

WP3 Assessment of species diversity (Alberte Bondeau, Cécile Albert, Mathilde Hervé, Michel-Pierre Faucon, Elisa.Marraccini,Tiziana Sabbatini, Anna Camilla Moonen, Nicola Silvestri, Mario Balzan, Laura Scalvenzi)

WP4_Land system dynamics assessment at local scale (Guimarães Maria Helena) Public access

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The Technical University of Madrid ‘ team (spain)

The Technical University of Madrid (UPM) is the oldest and largest Spanish technical university. UPM offers most of engineering disciplines as well as Architecture, Computer Science and Geodesy & Cartography. UPM is a member of more than 10 European Technology Platforms UPM has 220 Research Groups, 5 RD Institutes and 10 RDI Centres. The activity of the Research Group Architecture, Urbanism and Sustainability covers a wide range of topics, including a research line focused on “Urbanism and Agrarian Systems” in which practical tools and methods to integrate periurban agrarian areas in urban and territorial planning have been developed. GiAU+S is also responsible for the management of one of the main databases in Spanish language about Good urban practices on sustainability, linked to UN Habitat. The GIAU+s will incorporate an external member from the Group of International Economics and Development of the Universitat Politècnica de València (Olga Moreno), whose academic profile complements that of GIAU+s researchers in the field of patterns of change of farming systems (see below) Role of partner in the project: UPM will collaborate with the database building (WP1) by providing expertise with agricultural statistics (eg. Agricultural censuses) and socioeconomic data sources. This team will also participate in WP3, analysing a local case study of periurban agriculture strongly affected by the urban sprawl. Olga Moreno and Marian Simon will contribute to the coordination of WP5.

Jose Fariña Tojo is Dr Architect and holds a Law degree. Full-time Professor, he has been in charge of different research projects funded by the Ministry of Housing and other institutions. He was responsible for the National White Paper on Sustainable Urbanism. Currently he collaborates in different national R+D research projects suchs as « Urban lessons from the housing bubble: dimensions, costs and benefits from the Spanish urban growth 1990-2006 » and « Functional resilience of urban areas. The case of Madrid urban area »

Olga Moreno is an Assistant Professor at the GEID es of the Universitat Politècnica de València. She has participated in several national projects and is currently collaborating with one 7FP project (TRANSMANGO, “Assessment of the impact of drivers of change on Europe’s food and nutrition security”) and one H2020 project (SALSA “Small farms, small food businesses and sustainable food security”). Her research has addressed the processes of farm differentiation in several farming systems in Spain and their implications for the rural territories, combining social research methodologies and statistical information. More recently, her work has focused on the connections between periurban agriculture and local food systems.

Marian Simon Rojo, architect, is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning (Faculty of Architecture, UPM) and member of the GIAU+S. Between 2012-2014 she coordinated a 3 years R&D project “Periurban Agrarian ECosystems in Spatial Planning”, financed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation. She participated in the European COST Action TD1106 – Urban Agriculture Europe (UAE), coordinating WG1–Urban Agriculture definitions and Common Agricultural Policy.

Sant’Anna School ‘s team (Italia)

Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (SSSA, founded in 1987) is a public university institute – with special autonomy – working in the field of applied sciences. SSSA aims at experimenting innovative paths in research and education. Due to its international nature, education of excellence and scientific community, SSSUP established itself as a reference both in Italy and abroad, ranking tenth (and first in Italy) in the 2016 ranking of the 150 best young universities in the world compiled by the Times Higher Education. The Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) is one of the six thematic groups into which the School is organized. The scientific mission of the ILS covers two macro-areas: (1) Agricultural Sciences and Plant Biotechnology, and (2) Biomedical Sciences. In particular, the research carried out in the macro-area Agricultural Sciences and plant Biotechnology addresses two main domains: plant sciences and agronomy, with a focus on various aspects of plant biology, food and energy crops, agrobiodiversity, and agroecosystem management. In this context, the ILS members participating to DIVERCROP have a long experience in national and European research projects dealing with land use and land cover change, with a focus on the landscape level characterization of agricultural and farming systems.
Role of partner in the project: The SSSA will mainly contribute to WP1 and WP2. First, contributing to the coordination of WP1 mobilizing the know-how on remote sensing data collection and database managing. In addition, the SSSA team will leverage the own expertise on landscape level analysis of agricultural data in Mediterranean areas to ensure the consistency between the data management and the statistical approaches developed in WP2. Second, SSSA will participate to the WP2 to identify the variables needed to address the characterization of theoretical influence of cropping systems on spontaneous vegetation. To this end, the SSSA team will interact also with Nicola Silvestri (University of Pisa, and affiliated to the Institute of Life Science of SSSA) to improve the identification of proxies capable to account for the farm level characteristics in the farming system typology that will be developed by the WP2 leaders. In addition, the SSSA team will also contribute to support the model development (WP3) as well as to management of local case studies (WP4) thanks to the experience of comanagement in previous projects with most of the DIVERCROP members (e.g., for the DAUME project)
and to the land system assessment fostered in WP5.

Tiziana Sabbatini is an engineer in Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing. She has different experience on participating to international research programs:  (SERIAL WELFIR, IPNOA,DAUME, MARSOL,FREEWAT)

Anna Camilla Moonen: PhD, full time researcher in agroecology and assistant professor at SSSA. Her research areas involve management of agrobiodiversity and farm management for development of sustainable cropping systems. She mainly works on arable cropping systems, but recently extended her works also on olive groves and vegetable systems. She deals also with the study of agroecosystem services with conceptual and experimental approaches to address agrobiodiversity related to weed control, pest control and soil fertility. C. Moonen has coordinated and participated to several research project financed either by the MiPAAF or by the EU (e.g., coordinator of Work Package 2 for the KBBE_2012 Project QUESSA http://www.quessa.eu/ )

Davide Rizzo: PhD, is an agronomist and fixed-term contract researcher with extensive experience in landscape level characterization of agricultural practices (e.g., crop sequences, fertilization, irrigation). He collaborated to several regional studies and a European FP7 project addressing the development of support tools for the territorial policy-making (LogistEC http://www.logistecproject.eu/ ).

Nicola Silvestri: PhD, is a full time researcher at Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment – Pisa University. His research activity has been focused on the evaluation of cropping system sustainability and the use of indicators, modelling and GIS in studies on a regional scale. He coordinated many research projects in collaboration with the LandLab – Scuola Superiore S.Anna, such as the study of alternative cropping system within the Nitrate Vulnerable Area of the Massaciuccoli Lake catchment (2008-2011; founded by the Tuscany Region) and “A GIS data-base implementation on the soil use, the quality of waters and the farms typology within the park’s borders” (2012-2013; founded by Regional Park of Migliarino – San Rossore – Massaciuccoli). Dr. Silvestri will be mobilized by the SSSA thanks to his expertise on the project topics, in particular of WP2. He does not participate to the funding requirement because his principal affiliation is UniPI, though he will be joined to the scientific valorization based on the
project outputs.

Ricardo Villani (Phd)

MCAST ‘s TEAM (MALTA)

MCAST is the leading entity responsible for further and higher vocational education in Malta and provides undergraduate courses in various scientific and engineering sectors. Research will be conducted within the Applied Environmental Sciences Research Group (AESReG) based at the Institute of Applied Science (IAS). The Institute is found within recently built facilities at the new MCAST Campus and includes fully-equipped science research laboratories. AESReG is coordinated by two principal investigators, both of whom are senior lecturing staff at IAS. The group also collaborates with a number of local practitioners working within the environmental sector in Malta and that have broad industry experience. Members of AESReG have experience in participating in international research projects and concurrent research activities carried out by the group focus on multidisciplinary aspects relating to the fields of natural resources management and agri-environmental sustainability. The objective of the research group includes 1) to address environmental and sustainability issues of concern to the Maltese and European environment, and 2) to develop a research partnership with local and international authorities and organizations in the environmental sector. Research carried out by the AESReG mainly falls within the following two research themes:

Thematic area 1 – Long-term environmental monitoring and sustainability studies: This thematic area focuses on multidisciplinary research relating to the fields of natural resources management, the environment and agriculture. Research is intended to inform management practices and to develop basic and applied aspects of science relating to the environment. Members of the research group have several years of practical and research experience in the following aspects of environmental management: local and landscape-scale ecological studies; ecological restoration projects; sustainability of resource use; climate change modelling and adaptation studies; and environmental policy.

Thematic area 2 – Agro-environmental research: The second research theme relates to agroenvironmental issues, including: reducing agricultural waste; reducing the carbon footprint of the farming sector; increasing carbon sequestration; conserving biodiversity; sustainability in agriculture and adaptation to climate change. Research carried out under this thematic area can be applied to the development of new ‘eco-friendly’ practices and technologies for agriculture.

Role of partner in the project: MCAST will be participating in the comprehensive building exercise, carried out within WP1. Experience from other projects and from research within AESReG has already been important for building a local database of land use and land cover maps, and other socio-economic and agricultural statistics at the municipality and national scale that may be used for the assessment and mapping of land systems diversity. Through the participation within WP1, the research group will be able to work with other partners to combine data at the Mediterranean basin level, and for the development and utilization of statistical techniques to characterize land systems and their drivers and their dynamics (WP2). MCAST will contribute to studies investigating the impact of land systems on species diversity at local and regional scales (WP3). Being the only small island state within the project Malta presents a special case study for the DIVERCROP project. Agricultural land in Malta, though rich in agricultural biodiversity at crop level but also in naturally occurring species, is often subject to direct and indirect pressures resulting from the limited amount of land in Malta and competition with other land uses. Within this context, and through the use of existing data and information obtained from other WPs, MCAST will also contribute to WP4 and WP5 by contributing data about land system dynamics, including information obtained through interviews with key stakeholders and through participatory approaches.

– Mario V Balzan is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Applied Sciences, Malta College of Arts, Science & Technology (MCAST). He holds a Ph.D. in Agrobiodiversity from the Institute of Life Sciences of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy, and has a multidisciplinary background in agricultural and environmental sciences, and natural resource management. Past research investigates biodiversity-ecosystem function relations in agricultural landscapes, pollination ecology, the assessment and mapping of ecosystem services, and habitat management for maintaining ecosystem services in cultural landscapes. He has participated in various EU and nationally funded research projects and is a Principal Investigator of the Applied Environmental Sciences Research Group (AESReG) at MCAST. Dr Balzan is the project coordinator for the research group’s participation in the ongoing HORIZON 2020 project “Enhancing ecoSysteM sERvices mApping for poLicy and Decision mAking” (ESMERALDA), the ARIMNET2 project “Land system dynamics in the Mediterranean basin across scales as relevant indicator for species diversity and local food systems” (DIVERCROP), and is a member of the management committee of the COST Action FA1307 (SUPER-B). Dr Balzan has also acted as the Institute coordinator of further and higher education courses in the fields of applied and environmental sciences.

– Eman Calleja is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Applied Sciences. Prior to joining MCAST, he was a Research Fellow with the Islands and Small States Institute, University of Malta, carrying out research on the impact of climate change on European islands. He is an interdisciplinary scientist, having a background in ecology, agriculture and more recently in rural geography. Dr Calleja obtained a PhD in Plant and Environmental Sciences from the University of Warwick (UK) in 2011, following a three-year PhD fellowship funded by DEFRA (UK). His PhD research focussed on climate impact studies and forecasting probabilistic projections of climate change. Prior to starting his PhD, he worked for the Maltese ministry for agriculture on various agricultural issues, including drafting legislation and policy. He also represented Malta at an international level and on EU fora on numerous occasions during his 10-year stint with the government. He is also an ecologist, having previously obtained an MSc in ecology and environmental management from the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Crete, and has worked for over fifteen years as an environmental consultant for various private and public organizations and NGOs. Dr. Calleja is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (UK). He is a Principal Researcher of the Applied Environmental Sciences Research Group (AESReG) at MCAST, and a member of the management committee of COST Actions ES1106 (EURO AGRIWAT) and CA15113 (SMIRES).

– Laura Scalvenzi is a Researcher on the DIVERCROP Project at the Institute of Applied Sciences, Malta College of Arts, Science & Technology (MCAST). She is Agronomist and in 2011 obtained her Ph.D. in Biotechnology from the University of Ferrara (Italy). She spent 15 years investigating human development through sustainable use of biodiversity in Ecuador, Peru and Rwanda. She has contributed to human development and scientific projects at international level and in multicultural environments, collaborating with universities, governments and not-for-profit organizations. She also has experience as lecturer, researcher and head of department at a public Amazonian university.

RNAM’S team (Algeria)

The team ADDYME (Planning, Development, Dynamics of Earth and Environment) belongs to RNAMS Laboratory. The team listed its shares in a context emphasizing the concept of sustainable development, considered under the double aspect of man’s relationship with nature and with the dynamics of space, while ensuring rational management of resources Natural and ecosystem conservation. Its expertise spans the life sciences, human sciences and engineering sciences, applied to the management of natural resources and societies, water and agriculture, as well as land. ADDYME The team also provides training through research (graduate students and post-graduate Master, state engineer, Magister and Doctorate). His themes are included in a multidisciplinary approach: Urban Management and Sustainable Development; Biodiversity, ecology and management of wetlands High Plains of Constantine; Cities, territories and Environment.

Role of partner in the project: The Algerian team will contribute at WP4 and 5 and organize the field studied sampled in the country.

– Bouchemal Salah, professor, he chairs the Scientific Advisory Board since 2007. He was Head of RNAMS Laboratory and currently leads the research team ADDYME. His major concern is life in the countryside and their upheavals and thorough investigations into the peasantry. It was followed by several publications on these aspects, as well as his involvement in group work particularly in the context ANR kind of international projects as such ANR DAUME 2011-2015, by focusing on the peri-urban agriculture in Africa, to share their responses to the socio-economic vulnerabilities and their integration into markets. On aspects related to human relations to his environment, he led several national projects, CNEPRU type, like the one that focused on the development of the Algerian steppe, and the asset management of the environment, or by integrating with a research team belonging to the Centre for Research on the Dry Areas (CRSTRA Biskra).

– Abdelkader KHIARI is professor at the University Larbi Ben M’hidi in Oum El Bouaghi. He is the head of the RNAMS laboratory. Ha has a Phd in geology sciences and work on natural hazards, water flows and the environmental planning. He has coordinated many research projects and has some academic publications on international peer journals.

– Ouassila BENDJABALLAH, architect and urban planner, she is teacher-researcher since 2004 at the University Larbi Ben M’hidi in Oum El Bouaghi, at the Institute of Urban Management Techniques and the Faculty of Earth Sciences and the Architecture, she is a member of ADDYME team partner in the project ANR/DAUME sustainability of urban Agricultures in the Mediterranean. His works has been published in 2013 in Cahiers Agriculture. His research has allowed him to have a thorough knowledge of the problems of land ownership in Algeria and understand the use of strategies or devolution of land available to owners in suburban areas.

– CHIBANE Nasserdine

– TAÏB Lyes 

INRAT’s TEAM (Tunisia)

The INRAT is the historical institution of this system. The institute, which celebrated its centenary in 2013, develops agronomic research about plant and animal productions, protection of plants, horticulture and market gardening. The rural economy is present in the INRAT research since 1971. Agricultural economists and researchers are grouped in a laboratory since that date. Research on these fields includes the economy and farm management, agricultural policy and food economy. The land issue was also the focus of some researchers, as evidenced by some of their publications on public or collective lands, on privatization processes or on peri-urban agriculture. Tunisia competition over natural resources, in particular soil resources, is becoming increasingly exacerbated, especially in suburban areas. Furthermore loss of high agronomic quality soil increases
each year, especially surrounding main cities in the country’s coastal regions. However, the precise knowledge of these losses and especially the current processes and drivers that explain such dynamics are poorly studied, making it difficult to identify leverage actions to enhance public regulations and to reduce the negative effects on soil resources or the ability of land system to produce food or environmental services. The work planned in the DIVERCROP project are expected to provide a database on land uses in the western of the Mediterranean basin and conduct comparative analyzes on drivers that explain dynamics of land use changes in different regions. Role of partner in the project: The Tunisian team will contribute most directly to WP1, 2, 4 and 5, in order to benefit from the others groups’ contribution on understanding the current land use change phenomena and will participate at analysis of others project partner countries. Beyond the whole program interest, analytical works at the local level about drivers of the land use dynamics and changes will be
undertaken.

– Mohamed Elloumi (INRAT) coordinated works on peri-urban agriculture (see the book: Elloumi M., Jouve A.M. 2003 (s/d) Bouleversement fonciers en Méditerranée: des agricultures sous le choc de l’urbanisation et des privatisations, Karthala–CIHEAM, 384 p). Or, the special issue of the revue “Option Méditerranéenne”: Elloumi M. (coordination) 2011, Régulation foncière et protection des terres agricoles en Méditerranée, 172 p. Série B : Etudes et Recherches, N° 66). His work also includes the privatization of public lands in southern Tunisia with an institutional approach.

– Mohamed Hammami, Lecturer at ESA Mateur, working on urban agriculture and adaptation of production systems in this context (see Hammami M., Sai MB., 2008, Problèmes fonciers et agriculture périurbaine dans le grand Tunis: Mutations foncières et stratégies des agricultures, New Medit n°
1/2008).
– Insaf Mekki, university lecturer at the INRGREF, is an agronomist and works on agricultural landscapes and farmer adaptation strategies, both in irrigated agriculture as rainfed agriculture. It is a partner in several cooperation projects including the ALMIRA project TRANSMED program.
– Lamia Karoui Arfa, assistant at the Agriculture High Scool of Mograne, is associated member of the rural economy laboratory of the INRAT. She is specialised on the agrobusiness econmy and work currently on local food chain purpose.

Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais (France)

LSB is a top-ranking French engineering school founded in 1854, which focuses in the field of life sciences (agriculture, food and health, geology). There are currently around 2,500 students in LSB going from bachelor to PhD levels in the two campuses of Beauvais and Rouen. Two research units of LSB are involved in the DIVERCROP project: PICAR-T and HydrISE. PICAR-T (UP 2012-10-103) is an interdisciplinary research unit, which aims to understand and manage the innovation processes in rural areas and in local food systems. Three associate professors of PICAR-T are involved in the DIVERCROP project (17 man-months): Elisa MARRACCINI (landscape agronomy), co-coordinator of WP2 and contributing to WP2, WP4 and WP5, Anne COMBAUD (geography and GIS science), contributing to WP1 Hanitra RANDRIANASOLO-RAKOTOBE (economy), contributing to WP2. HydrISE (UP 2012-10-102) deals with the interactions Soil-Environment in connection with the current environmental and social issues e.g. climate change, agricultural inputs and industrial activities on the ecosystems. Three associate professors of the HydrISE are involved in DIVERCROP (3 man-months) in WP3: Michel-Pierre Faucon (Plant Ecology), David Houben (Soil Science) and Anne-Maïmiti Mercadal-Dulaurent (Agroecology). Role of partner in the project: LSB will contribute to all the WP of the project and participate to the coordination of WP2. Building on an extensive background in landscape agronomy, farming system evaluation geography and agro-ecology, the contributions of LSB team will be the following:

1- Contribution to the state of the art and the theoretical framework of the project (WP1, WP2,WP3, WP4, WP5)
2- Contribution to the methods (WP1, WP2, WP3, WP4, WP5)
3- Contribution to the results at the WMB level (WP1, WP2), and collaboration with partner 8 for an Italian case study (WP3).

– Combaud Anne (37 years-old), Associate Professor in Geography. She is dean of agronomy and animal sciences department of LSB. She has received in 2008 a PhD from Burgundy University (France) in physical and historic characterization of the wine-making territories in Burgundy. Her main research interests are agricultural land use changes and spatial analyses of landscapes. She has published 7 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has supervised 3 MSc internships.

– Dulaurent-Mercadal Anne-Maïmiti (31 years-old), Associate Professor in animal ecology and agroecology. She has received a PhD degree from Bordeaux 1 University (France) in functional and community ecology in 2010. Her main research interests are ecosystem services rendered by plant diversity, especially pest regulation and fertility. She was involved in the URTICLIM and P-CLIM international projects. She has published 9 papers in peer-reviewed international journals.

– Faucon Michel-Pierre (33 years-old), Associate Professor of plant ecology and agroecology. He has a PhD from Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in plant ecology and biogeochemistry (2010). His main research interests are on soil-plant interactions and their implication in biodiversity conservation, ecological engineering, and agroecology. He is/was coordinator (3) and partner (5) of height French research projects and partner of an international project on “copper flora”. He is author of 23 papers in peer-reviewed international journals. He supervised 2 PhD students and 7 MSc.

– Houben David (32 years-old), Associate Professor in soil science and biogeochemistry. He holds a PhD from Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) in Agronomical Science and Biological Engineering (2013). His main research interests include the management of the soil resource which encompasses a better understanding of soil-plant interactions and the impact of the application of plant litter and renewable amendments on both nutrient and contaminant availability in soils. He was involved in five national or international projects. He has published 15 papers in peer-reviewed international journals. He has supervised 1 PhD student and already supervised 6 MSc students.

– Marraccini Elisa (36 years-old), Associate Professor in Landscape Agronomy and member of the PICAR-T research unit. She has received in 2010 a PhD from AgroParisTech (France) and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Italy) in Agronomy and Environmental Sciences. Her main research interests are integrated farming system assessment, agricultural land use changes, participatory and multi-scale approaches. She was involved in the FP6 ENDURE NoE and ANR-DAUME international projects. She has published 12 papers in peer-reviewed international journals. She has supervised 2 PhD students (one ongoing) and 3 MSc (one ongoing) and 2 BSc internships.

– Randrianasolo-Rakotobe Hanitra (40 years-old) is an Associate Professor in Economics. She has received a PhD from the University of Versaille (France) in 2002. Her main research interests are Lock-in, path dependence issues and economic change through innovations. She is involved in the RMT Erytage dealing with farming sustainability and the ITE Genesys with green and open Innovation. She has published 15 papers in peer-reviewed journals. She is supervising 5 and already supervised 3 MSc internships.

IMBE/CNRS ‘s team (France)

The Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie marine et continentale (CNRS-IMBE), established in 2012, aims to develop new approaches for science-based integrated management of biodiversity and cosystems. With 260 staff members organized in 14 research teams, CNRS-IMBE combines basic and applied biological field research with new approaches of modelling ecosystem processes at the continental scale. CNRS-IMBE’s current research potential covers the domains of biodiversity, evolutionary biology and ecology, and human-environment relationships. CNRS-IMBE provides crucial expertise for the monitoring and analysis of biodiversity to local, regional and global stakeholders in the public and private sector. Involving its main developer, Dr Alberte Bondeau, contributes the development and application of the widely recognized terrestrial ecosystem/hydrology model LPJmL, Dr. Cécile Albert contributes to the integration of landscape ecology and land use change modelling, Prof. Wolfgang Cramer contributes the implementation of the model-based approach into the context of ecosystem service assessments. Role of partner in the project: CNRS/IMBE will contribute to all the WP of the project and participate to the co-ordination of WP3.

– C. Albert (CNRS), PhD 2009, is working at the interface between functional ecology, landscape ecology and dynamic modelling. She is mainly interested in looking at how landscape changes modify species habitat network. Supervision of doctoral and post-doctoral students: 1 PHD student currently.

– A. Bondeau (CNRS), PhD 1992, has a long experience of vegetation modelling. She conducted the first implementation of agriculture within a dynamic global vegetation model. She is a co-leader of the transverse work package “integrated modelling” within the Labex OT-Med where she concentrates on the understanding and the modelling of sustainable agricultural systems in the Mediterranean under global change, using ecosystem services assessment for that purpose (2 post-docs and 2 PhD students
currently working on that topic). 58 Publications.

– W. Cramer (CNRS), scientific director of IMBE, PhD 1986, has worked on mechanistic modelling of ecosystems at the regional and global scale throughout his career (120+ publications). More recently, he has focused on interdisciplinary questions concerning the human-environment issue and more specifically the use of ecosystem services as paradigm. He has been a contributor to the IPCC in many roles and cochairs
the Future Earth project ecoSERVICES

Evora’s Team (Portugal)

Maria Helena Guimarães (Principal Researcher of Divercrop) has been working since 2009 with participatory approaches mainly in research subjects around natural resource management. In 2016, she started the implementation of a transdisciplinary research process around the sustainability of agro-silvo-pastoral systems, mainly the montado in the Alentejo region of Portugal. Particular work has been developed on systems approaches to sustainability issues and the integration of social-ecological frameworks in a search for increasing the resilience levels, the provision of ecosystems service and policy design. Her dedication to inter- and transdisciplinarity research led her work to focus not only on natural resource management but also on how to improve the expression and quality of this type of research within academia.

Teresa Pinto-Correia has been working in recent years in the assessment of farm management typologies and the factors leading to stronger or weaker articulation between farm management and services provisioning. Particular work has been developed on novel farm management paradigms and their resilience levels, as well as their capability to provide multiple services in different ways. This field ofwork is strengthened with the analysis of the combination between attitudes and behavior in farmer’s choices, making it possible to grasp tensions, conflicts, and targeted policy needs, for each farm system and farmer type. Further, she has experience on participatory methods for the discussion of agriculture scenarios and policy needs, integrating different stakeholders at different scales, linking research to practice.

Nuno Guiomar is a Biophysical Engineer, MSc. in Geographic Information Systems and Science, PhD researcher in Environmental Sciences. Research on landscape modelling, landscape evaluation, fire management, landscape change and related drivers, and disturbance effects in Mediterranean agroforestry systems at multiple scales.

 

 

Description coordinator

 

Claude Napoléone is a senior scientist centered on regional science issues. After a practical experience in land policy in agricultural and state institutions, his researches were devoted to interactions between agricultural areas and urban sprawl and a valuation of housing driver’s location in order to assess location effects on agriculture and nature. Formally, his research fields are land use drivers and tools for public management of land use change, economics and politics of land use change, natural and agricultural resources management, interdisciplinary analysis of anthropogenic influences on natural and agricultural spaces. He was the head of the INRA research team Ecodéveloppement from 2008 to 2013 and he has different experience on participating to international research programs (EU FP7 CLAIM) and on coordinating of national research program (Bio-2M in DIVA2 program, OTM in DGUHC program, program “Du marché foncier à la lecture paysagère » in « Politique Publique et Paysage » program, « Etude des interactions entre dynamique des prix fonciers et stratégies des acteurs en Périurbain” in PIREE program, »Evaluation des vulnérabilités en zone périurbaine sensible aux incendies de forêt” in a French program devoted to the risk analysis, ANR DAUME project 2011-2015).

Marta Debolini is a researcher at INRA that focuses her research on land system modeling, multitemporal analysis of agricultural landscapes and spatial statistic. She participates to different international programs and she was awarded by Columbia University for her project ““Land management and land use conflict resolution in peri‐urban areas: A geo‐agronomic perspective”.

Michel Mouléry  is an engineer in spatial analysis and Information technology (Msc) .His research are based on land use change and land cover change in relationships with the agriculture. He works in Inra in the  ecodeveloppement unit. He has additional skills in geographic database building, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing (Landsat and SPOT data), landscape analysis using landscape metrics and statistics (R). He participated to the ANR DAUME project 2011-2015, where he has co-managed a working group on landscape dynamics. He works also in the Claim EU FP7 Project 2012-2015 and today other research projects (LIFE Pastoral, Provide etc..). He managed, helped Masters Degrees, Phd in differents research projects since 2010. See his page on researchgate.

Leonith Hinojosa (PhD, University of Manchester) has an interdisciplinary background that combines Economics and Human Geography. She is a research fellow at the Earth and Life Institute, Catholic University of Louvain. Over the last 10 years, her research has covered a wide range of topics in Ecological Economics and Development Geography. Her recent projects have focused on the dynamics of land use change and its linkages with social resilience to environmental and economic change, socioenvironmental conflicts and water security. She is currently undertaking research on these topics in the French and Austrian Alps, Ecuador and Peru.

Johanna Fusco (Phd, INRA AVignon)

Rosalia Filippini (31 years old) after the Master Degree in Economy from the University of Parma (Italy) in 2009, in 2011 she was at European Commission in DG Agriculture and Rural Development as trainee, working on the mid-term evaluation of rural development programs. From 2012-2015 she has done a joint PhD in Lansdcape Agronomy between the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa (Italy) and Agroparistech(France). Her PhD work concerned the integration between the periurban farming system and the local food system, adopting a multiscale perspective. She is now in post-doc at UMR Métafort –
AgroParisTech. Her research interests are related to the analysis on periurban farming systems, local food systems with specific concerns on the impact on territorial dynamics of the different stakeholders.

Esther Sanz Sanz works currently as a planner in the development of tools to integrate peri-urban agricultural land use in urban planning by the means of landscape metrics and indices. In this field, her research focuses on spatially-explicit modelling of agriculture under urban influence at town and regional levels. She is a 3nd year PhD student in urban studies (EHESS, France) and geography (UAM, Spain) and she holds a master and B.A. in architecture and urban planning (UPM, Spain) as well as a master in social sciences and territorial development (EHESS, France). She has more of ten years of professional experience as an architect and urban planner, and has participated in several development programs.

Sylvie Lardon is a senior scientist at INRA and associate professor at AgroParisTech. She is coresponsible of two Masters Degrees in territorial development. She carries out research on territorial engineering, in partnership with agricultural actors, socio-economic organizations and policy-makers. Her research focuses mainly on the development and use of qualitative spatial models to build shared visions and improve actors’ participation in territorial projects. In a research-education-action platform, she opens the way to new modes of governance of territories and the accompanying of the stakeholders in the change. Since 2004, she has edited more than ten books on these topics and she has supervised eightPhD students (two ongoing). Since 2007, she has co-organised the four winter or spring schools in Landscape and Territory Agronomy at Sant’Anna School for Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy). She is coresponsible of the WP “Territorial prospective” for the French ANR DAUME Project 2011-2015 and of the
WP “Partnership and co-building principles” for the Era-Net Ruragri TASTE project 2013-201

– Chanel O., Delattre L., Napoléone C. (2014) Determinants of local public policies for farmland preservation and urban expansion: a French illustration, Land Economics, vol. 90/3.

– Marraccini E. Debolini M, Mouléry M, Abrantes, Bouchier A, Chéry Jp, Sanz Sanz E, Sabbatini G, Napoleone C. (2015). Are there common features in land cover and pattern changes in West Mediterranean urban regions? Applied Geography, vol 62, pp. 347-356 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.05.004

– Debolini M., Schoorl J.M., Temme A., Galli M., Bonari E. (2013) Changes in Agricultural Land Use Affecting Future Soil Redistribution Patterns: A Case Study in Southern Tuscany (Italy). Land Degradation & Development:n/a-n/a. DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2217.

– Sanz Sanz, E., Napoléone, C., Hubert, B., & Mata, R. (in press). “Caractérisation et cartographie de l’agriculture péri-urbaine: vers une méthodologie opérationnelle pour la planification territoriale.” RERU Revue d’Economie Régionale et Urbaine.

– Lardon, S. and S. Loudiyi (2014). “Agriculture et alimentation urbaines : entre politiques publiques et initiatives locales ». Géocarrefour 2014/1 ,Vol. 89.