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Guyana TransAgriDom meetings, week of October 21, 2019

Guyana TransAgriDom meetings, week of October 21, 2019

by | Oct 30, 2019 | News 2019

The TransAgriDom project aims to accentuate the synergy between territories and actors of the Innovation and Agricultural Transfer Networks (RITA) to ensure the agro-ecological transition in the French overseas territories. It thus brings together around twenty partners, including Solicaz. These various partners meet at least once a year to carry out interDom workshops punctuated by a few field visits. Solicaz is the coordinator of the “crop fertilization and soil fertility” action.

A first meeting took place during the international agricultural show in Paris in February 2019. Solicaz was able to co-facilitate with the Chamber of Agriculture of La Réunion, a workshop on the use of organic materials in agriculture in French overseas departments, the aim of which is to pool knowledge on this subject.

The week of October 21, 2019, these meetings between partners of the TransAgriDom network took place in Guyana. Solicaz led a workshop on indicators of biological soil fertility and participated in the organization of field visits. Solicaz intervened in various workshops, in particular that devoted to service plants by presenting local results from our research work. Solicaz also co-produced a film on organic soil fertility, shot during this event, which will soon be available.

The summary of discussions on the various workshops and field visits are available on the inter-RITA COATIS information sharing site.

For more information, a poster on the use of soil biological fertility indicators (PDF)

Solicaz's intervention during Workgroup

Solicaz’s intervention during Workgroup

Site Visit

Site Visit

European Agri Innovation Summit – Lisieux 25-26 June 2019

European Agri Innovation Summit – Lisieux 25-26 June 2019

by | Oct 8, 2019 | Agriculture/Agroforestry, Events, News 2019

On the 25 and 26 of June 2019, the second Agri Innovation summit, co-organized by the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food (with the national rural network), the Normandie Region, the European Commission and the European network PEI- AGRI, was held in France, in Lisieux.

Dedicated to the innovation for agriculture, forestry and especially to the European Partnership contribution for the Innovation to a Productive and Sustainable Agriculture (PEI-AGRI) concerning the agro-ecological transition, the summit brought together more than 400 participants, including more than 150 actors from all over Europe: farmers, foresters, rural development actors, researchers, advisers, teachers, co-operatives, companies, associations, decision-makers … 120 innovative projects and networks were presented into workshops or “Market place” and 8 visits of Normands projects were organized.

Solicaz, RITA’s GUYAFER project leader, was invited to present his project throught a poster of “Soil: fertility, biological life and fighting against erosion” work session. This workshop theme highlighted the fact that, after years of considering the soils only as inert substrates where its loss of fertility was offset by adding chemical inputs, the quality and health of soils and their fundamental role for the ecosystem became the center of agricultural and forestry concerns. The aim is to stop the erosion, to strengthen and maintain soil fertility and its biological life through the supply of organic matter, soil preparation and cultures diversification – including the introduction of legumes and intermediate cultures to improve the symbiosis between plants and micro-organisms, to fight against pollution and climate change (A better water and molecules retention, carbon storage).

Solicaz also has:
– attended various roundtables in plenary sessions about the transition to agro-ecology.
– participated to the crop nutrition workshop.
– attended a field visit on the GIEE Biodiversity to promote the biodiversity in agriculture (concept of ecosystem services).

https://www.reseaurural.fr/Sommet-agri-innovation-2019

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