Challenges > Challenge 1: ICT and the agroecology challenge | Challenge 2: Digital solutions to optimize the genotype in changing production systems and markets | Challenge 3: ICT and crop protection | Challenge 4: ICT and sustainable animal production | Stake 2 – A better society inclusiveness for ICT-enabled agriculture | Challenge 5: ICT and new farm advisory services | Challenge 6: ICT and agricultural territory management | Challenge 7: Integrating agriculture into value chains | Challenge 8: ICT and agricultural development in Southern countries (Africa) ||| Research Axes > Axis 1: TIC and rural societies | Axis 2: Innovation in digital agriculture | Axis 3: Sensors and data acquisition/processing | Axis 4: Information systems, data storage, transfers and sharing | Axis 5:Data Mining, Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery | Axis 6: Multiscale modelling and simulation
- Romain Gautron: Reinforcement learning for developing country agriculture: a virtual personal adviser for risk mitigation and multi-objectives optimization
Axis 1, Challenge 5 – with Marc Corbeels, Cirad AIDA & Eric Malezieux, Cirad HortSys #3 - Théo Martin: Digital agriculture – The question of labor in agricultural holdings
Axis 1 – Challenges: cross-cutting subject – with Pierre Gasselin (Inra Innovation) & François Purseigle (ENSAT UMR Agir) #3 - Mauro Florez: Digital Transition in Agriculture – Description of its deployment and impact on the position of farmers in the value chain
Axis 1 & 2 – Challenges 7 & 5 – with Isabelle Bourdon (Université de Montpellier, MRM ) et Isabelle Piot-Lepetit (Inra, MOISA), Karine Gauche (Montpellier SupAgro, MOISA) et Magali Aubert (Inra, MOISA) #3 - George Aboueldahab: Digital technologies in the agroecological transition: development, contributions and challenges of opensource organizations geared to small farmers
Axis 1 & 2 – Challenges : transversal & 7 – Florence Palpacuer, Université de Montpellier MRM, Florence Palpacuer, Université de Montpellier MRM et Myriam Kessari, CIHEAM-IAMM #3 - Laura Tomasso: Legal study of digital platforms in the area of Digital Agriculture.
Axis 2 (cross-cutting subject) – with Agnès Robin, UM Dynamiques du Droit #1 - Boris Biao: Is innovation in smart agriculture responsible?
Axis 2 (cross-cutting subject) – with leila.temri [AT] supagro.fr #2 - Noémie Bechtet: Digitalisation and transformation of agricultural R&D: new service models for new agricultural models?
Axis 2 (cross-cutting subject) – with Pierre Labarthe, Inra, AGIR #3 - Laëtitia Lemière: Augmented reality to support agroforestry systems design
Axis 2 (cross-cutting subject) – with Marc Jaeger, Inrae, AbSyS - Baptiste Oger: Adaptative Constrained Optimization for Spatial Sampling in Precision Agriculture.
Axis 3 (cross-cutting subject) – with Bruno Tisseyre & Philippe Vismara, MISTEA – ITAP, Montpellier SupAgro #1 - Héloïse Villessèche: Combinations from optical sensors and omics technologies to assess multiple and combined stress during wheat growth
Axis 3, Challenge 3 – with Ryad Bendoula, ITAP, Irstea, Pierre Roumet, INRA, AGAP, Martin Ecarnot, INRA, AGAP, Nathalie Gorretta, Irstea, ITAP, Elsa Ballini, Montpellier SupAgro, BGPI #3 - Cyrille Ahmed Midingoyi: Semantic and modular representation of plant growth model using a declarative metalanguage.
Axis 4 (cross-cutting subject) – with Pierre Martre, INRA LEPSE #1 - Rodrique Kafando: Integration and analysis of massive and heterogeneous data for an
intelligent observation/monitoring of the territory (labelled)
Axis 4 (cross-cutting subject) – with Maguelonne Teisseire, Tetis, Inrae #3 - Urcel Kalenga: Definition, design and evaluation of an information system for pastoralism
Axis 4 & 5 , Challenge 4 – with Magali Jouven (Montpellier SupAgro SELMET), Maguelonne Teisseire (Irstea TETIS), Lucile Sautot (AgroParisTech TETIS) #3 - Luis Felipe Vargas Rojas, Combining Semantic Web and modelling approaches for organizing phenotyping data collected at different scales of plant organization
Axis 4, 6 – Challenge 2 – with François Tardieu, LEPSE, Inra, Llorenç Cabrera-Bosque, LEPSE, Inra & Danai Symeonidou, MISTEA, Inra #3 - Priscilla Keip: Selecting pesticidal plants for animal and plant health in Africa using exploratory conceptual navigation
Axis 5 (cross-cutting subject) – with marianne.huchard [AT] lirmm.fr – Université de Montpellier (LIRMM) / Cirad (AIDA) – (financement Cirad) #2 - Jacques Fize: Matching between massive and heterogeneous data : application to biodiversity data (labelled)
Axis 5 (cross-cutting subject) – with Mathieu Roche, Cirad Tetis & Maguelonnes Teisseire, Irstea Tetis – Defended - Maxime Metz: Applying big data methodologies to improve the chemometrics local-PLS algorithms
Axis 5 (cross-cutting subject) with jean-michel.roger [AT] irstea.fr – UMR ITAP – Co-encadrement : Cirad SELMET et Inria Zenith #2 - Kaaviya Velumani: Continuous monitoring of crop development from IoT sensors fixed in the field
Axis 5 – Challenge 2 – with frederic.baret [AT] inra.fr, UMR EMMAH Capte (Avignon) #2 - Caroline Xavier: High-speed phenotyping of body and carcass composition of the growing cattle by 3D imaging and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) coupled by machine learning
Axis 5 – Challenge 4 – with Yannick Le Cozler, UMR Pegase, Institut Agro et Sylvain Lerch, UR Afpa, Université de Lorraine #3 - Girault-Bogue Gnanguenon-Guesse: Modelling and viewing relations between agrienvironmental time courses and product quality using a parsimonious Bayesian approach.
Axes 5 & 6 – Challenges 1, 5 & 7 – with Bénédicte Fontez et Nadine Hilgert, INRA MISTEA #1 - Rémi Mahmoud: Modeling the performance of annual intercrops. An approach combining functional ecology and data science
Axes 5,6 – Challenge 1, with Nadine Hilgert, Inra MISTEA, Pierre Casadebaig & Noémie Gaudio, Inra, AGIR #3 - Eva López Fornieles: Potential for combining time series of multispectral and radar satellite data to develop spatialized variables of vine development at the regional scale: application to the estimation of growth and its cessation and integration into a spatialized water status model
Axis 6 & 5, Challenges 5 & 3 – with Bruno Tisseyre (Montpellier SupAgro, ITAP), James Taylor (INRAE, ITAP), Nicolas Devaux (Montpellier SupAgro, LISAH), Jean Michel-Roger (INRAE, ITAP), Sébastien Roux (INRAE, MISTEA), Christian Gary (INRAE SYSTEM) #3 - Ellen Laclef: Design of innovative breeding systems using alternative methods to hormonal treatments in the management of the reproduction of small dairy ruminants
Axis 6 & 2, Challenges 4 & 1 – with Eliel Gonzalez-Garcia, INRA, SELMET, Amandine Lurette (INRA, SELMET), Patrick Taillandier (INRA, MIAT), et Nathalie Debus (INRA, SELMET) #3 - Benjamin Deneu: Interpretability of distribution models of plant species communities learned through deep learning – Application to crop weeds in the context of agro-ecology
Axis 5, & Challenge 1 – with Alexis Joly, Inria, LIRMM, François Munoz, Université Grenoble Alpes, Pierre Bonnet,Cirad, AMAP and Maximilien Servajean, Université de Montpellier, LIRMM #3 - Léonard Torossian: Metamodeling and robust optimization – application to ideotype design under climatic uncertainty (labelled)
Axis 6 – with Robert Faivre, INRA MIAT Toulouse #1 - Elie Najm: Knowledge representation and reasoning for agro-ecological systems
Axe6 – Challenge 1 – with Marie-Laure Mugnier – Inria LIRMM & Christian Gary – INRAE SYSTEM #3 - Eléonore Schnebelin: The Innovation System of Digital Agriculture facing the ecological transition
Challenge 1 & Axis 2 with jean-marc.touzard [AT] inra.fr – INRA, UMR INNOVATION #2 - Myriam Allo: Agricultural land use, land use changes and agricultural practices: impacts on soil carbon stocks in tropical volcanic environment. Spatial approach and simulation applied to Reunion Island (labelled)
Challenge 1, Axis 6, with pierre.todoroff [AT] cirad.fr AIDA #1 - Ivana Aleksovska: Improve short- and medium-term predictions of agronomic models by better taking into account the uncertainty of weather forecasts.
Challenge 1 – with François Brun, Acta #1 - Lucien Imorou: Territorial approach to pest management to reduce the use of insecticides in cotton growing in Benin (labelled)
Challenge 1, Axis 6 – with Thierry Breuvault, AIDA, Cirad – #3 - Benjamin Tiffon-Terrade: Analysis and modelling of effects of dynamic shading on grapevine development and berry ripening and quality (labelled)
Challenge 1, Axis 6, with Thierry Simonneau, Lepse, Inrae – #3 - Maxime Ryckewaert: Potential of aerial acquisition of high spectral /low spatial resolution information for plant phenotyping (labelled).
Challenge 2 – with Nathalie Gorretta, Irstea ITAP #1 Defended - Gaëtan Heidsieck: Distributed Management of Scientific Workflows for High-Throughput Plant Phenotyping.
Challenge 2 – with Esther Paciti, Inria Zenith Lirmm #1 - Etienne David: Design of Deep Learning methods for crops characterization (labelled)
Challenge 2 – with Frédéric Baret, Inra Emmah Avignon #2 - Hong Anh Nguyen: Connecting the dots between high-throughput phenotyping platforms and crop models
Challenge 2, Axis 6 – with Bertrand Müller, Lepse, Inrae #3 - Anis Taleb Bendiab: Optical sensors for the characterization of a spray deposition.
Challenge 3 – with Ryad Bendoula, Irstea ITAP #1 - Mathilde Chen: Disease risk analysis for wheat and vine by combining regional survey data and local expert knowledge (labelled).
Challenge 3 – with François Brun, Acta #1 – Defended - Anice Cheraiet: Experimental and statistical modeling of relations between morphological characteristics of grapevine and spraying deposits: application to precision agriculture.
Challenge 3 – with Sébastien Codis, Acta / ITAP #1 - Paul Tresson: Quantification of pest regulation by generalist predators by analysis of image sequence to determine and quantify network of interactions, case of the banana weevil
Challenge 3, Axes 5 & 3 with philippe.tixier [AT] cirad.fr, UPR GECO #2 - Hieu Nguyen Ba: On the use of voluntary feed intake for automatic detection and characterization the response of growing pigs to perturbations (labelled)
Challenge 4 – with Jaap Van-Milgen, INRA PEGASE Rennes #1 - Raphaël Gauthier: Nutritional requirements modelling and precision feeding of lactating sows.
Challenge 4 – with Jean-Yves Dourmad, INRA Rennes PEGASE #1 - Kevin Fauvel: Data science techniques for a sustainable dairy management.
Challenge 4 – with Alexandre Termier, Inria Rennes Lacodam #1 - Sarah Valentin: Extraction and aggregation of information from multi-source data for international monitoring of infectious animal diseases
Axes 4 & 5- Challenge 8 – with Mathieu Roche and Renaud Lancelot (Cirad) #1 - Gaëlle Lefort: Integrating metabolomic data by quantification of high throughput data. Application to perinatal mortality in pig
Challenge 4 & Axis 5 – with Nathalie Villa-Vialaneix, nathalie.villa-vialaneix [at] inra.fr- INRA MIAT Toulouse #2 - Corentin Leroux: Pre-processing and zoning within field yield monitor data: Towards site specific nutrient balances (labelled)
Axis 6 – with Bruno Tisseyre, Montpellier SupAgro ITAP #1 – Defended - Chloé Alexandre: Use of New Information and Communication technologies for Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services (AEAS): which effects on AEAS conception and provision? Which effects on producers’ learning processes?
Challenge 5 – Axis 1 & 2 – with Guy Faure, Cirad Innovation #1 - Gabriel Volte: Interactive exact optimisation for numerical services to agriculture
Challenge 5 & Axis 6 – with rodolphe.giroudeau [AT] lirmm.fr – Université de Montpellier – LIRMM #2 - Louis Rénier: Online communities and digital technologies to produce and exchange knowledge for agroecology (labelled).
Challenges 5 & 1, Axes 1 & 2 – with frederic. goulet [AT] cirad.fr Innovation & Aurélie Cardona Inra Ecodéveloppement #2 - Arthur Crespin-Boucaud: Cropping system monitoring using satellite time series and spatial modeling : study case in Madagascar Highlands (labelled)
Challenge 6 & Axis 6 – with agnes.begue [AT] cirad.fr #1 - Léo Pichon: Methods for assessing quality of data coming from high spatial and temporal resolution observations : the case of decision making in viticulture (labelled)
Axis 3, 4 et 6 – Challenges 1 & 6 – with Véronique Bellon-Maurel, Irstea Ecotechnologies #1 - Giffona Justinia: Impact of digital development on farm performance and agglomeration dynamics (labelled without funding)
Axis 1 – Challenges 1 & 6 – with Neija Ben Arfa, LARESS / ESA #1 - Narjiss Araba: The contribution of digital technology to the implementation of a price guarantee: application to cereal markets with futures and options.
Challenge 7 – with Alain François-Heude,UM MRM #1 - Ysé Commandré: Distribute durably with digital? The case of fresh agricultural and food products
Challenge 7 & Axe 1 with Sophie Mignon, sophie.mignon [AT] umontpellier.fr – Université de Montpellier MRM #2 - Felly Cadeau Rushigira: The information system in the governance of the value chain in the Ruzizi Plain in the DRCongo : what place for new information and communication technologies?
Challenges 7 & 8 – Axe 2, with Patricio Mendez Del Villar (Cirad Tetis) & Nicolas Paget (Cirad Innovation) - Vivien Kleinpeter: Spatially explicit modeling and multicriteria evaluation of organic materials recycling to promote a circular economy at the scale of La Réunion island (labelled)
Challenge 7 – Axis 6, with Matthieu Lesnoff, Tom Wassenaar – CIRAD, Selmet #3 - Julien Lamour: Analysis of spatialised data from production to improve agronomic diagnosis in banana plantations – Consideration of crop asynchronism (labelled)
Challenge 8, with Olivier Naud, Irstea ITAP #1 Defended - Julien Sarron: Spatial estimation of a perennial crop yield in West Africa : mango case study in Senegal (labelled)
Challenges 1 & 8, with emile.faye [AT] cirad.fr & Eric Malézieux, Cirad Hortsys #1 – Defended - Norontsoa Annie Hanitriniala Andriandralambo: Market information and entrepreneurship of peri-urban farmers in Antananarivo: Comparative analysis of the rice and vegetable value chains (labelled)
Challenge 8 & Axis 1 – with Hélène David-Benz, Cirad MOISA #1
- Hugo Deléglise: Improving food security systems by linking heterogeneous data – The case of agricultural production in West Africa
Challenge 8 & Axis 5 with agnes.begue [AT] cirad.fr #2 - Eléonore Schnebelin: The Innovation System of Digital Agriculture facing the ecological transition
Challenge 1 & Axis 2 with jean-marc.touzard [AT] inra.fr – INRA, UMR INNOVATION #2 - Jean-Eudes Yawogan Gbodjo: Leverage Multi-Source Remote Sensing data via machine learning to improve Crop Monitoring Systems: a Cross-comparison between France and Senegal
Challenge 8 & Axis 5 – with dino.ienco [AT] irstea.fr – UMR TETIS, Irstea (nov 2018–) #2
