2012/01/01 by Galan, Marie-Béatrice, C. C. Surleau, Surleau, Christophe +11
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Agriculture and Rural Development Research #Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
paper · doi:10.17180/tfpa-q351
Taking increasing account of the environmental dimension in policies of orientation of agricultural practices, in research and development in agricultural science has led since 15 years to many works on agri-environmental assessment, yielding, in many cases, in the design of indicators or even computer prototypes. These tools make it possible to estimate the impacts of agricultural practices with regard to the different dimensions of sustainable development and the environmental themes and, for some of them, to propose action plans at different scales of time and space. To face this diversity, a group of actors of research and agricultural development, designers or users of assessment tools, mobilized through the Plage 1 project to characterize the existing tools and the evaluation situations, to explain the variety of tools available from all stakeholders in the agricultural sector in order to facilitate their use, but also to pool the efforts of computer maintenance and tuning tools and database references. To achieve these various goals, project partners imagined to design a WEB platform and a platform of skills. Plage 1 project led to the development of the specifications of the WEB platform and the establishment of an open network of agricultural stakeholders in the agri-environmental assessment.