Bertrand Dumont

Co-designing a research agenda for UK agroforestry using a multi-actor approach - Agronomy for Sustainable Development There is growing recognition of agroforestry’s potential to help mitigate and provide resilience to the climate and biodiversity crises. Beyond its environmental benefits, agroforestry can also enhanc...

Hood, A.S.C., Scholes, R.E., Degani, E. et al. Co-designing a research agenda for UK agroforestry using a multi-actor approach. Agron. Sustain. Dev. 46, 20 (2026).
doi.org/10.1007/s135...

Zafarani Uwingabire (Dijon) digs into the important detail of how world views impact effective pollinator conservation - we need to understand this to get conservation right @safeguard-pollinators.eu final meeting #bee 🐝 🪰 🦋

Now Lorenzo Marini (Uni Padua) tells us how total wild bee abundance can be a good indicator for wild species richness, and so a valuable monitoring tool, particularly for citizen/community scientists @safeguard-pollinators.eu final meeting #bee 🐝

Dirk Maes (Butterfly Conservation Europe) talks about how the Grassland Butterfly Index is generated, the trends in butterfly abundance it identifies, and how to mitigate and reverse butterfly declines in Europe @safeguard-pollinators.eu final meeting 🦋

👋 hopefully you have all noticed the exciting new permanent research position advertised on jobs.inrae.fr/concours/con...

✅ The objective of the research will be to understand how agency is expressed in farm animals and how it may contribute to their welfare

#job #research #agency #welfare #INRAE

Impact of climate change mitigation strategies in rice farming on agroecosystem multifunctionality These results suggest that, from a landscape management perspective, implementing a single irrigation strategy at large spatial scales should be discouraged due to potential negative effects on parti....

📢📝 New paper out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social !!!

Impact of climate change mitigation strategies in rice farming on agroecosystem multifunctionality
Assessment of 20 indicators related to Biodiversity, Ecosystem services and Rice production.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PhD candidate (m/f/x): Connectivity of Urban Areas for Wildlife

Job advertisement: PhD candidate "Connectivity of Urban Areas for Wildlife" - apply now!

We are looking for a PhD candidate in the field of urban habitat connectivity and biodiversity. Further information can be found here: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/a...

Apply before March 15th.

Recent publications from Clarissa Leite, @charbelelhani.bsky.social + @davidludwig.bsky.social 1.Regulation in eco systems- buff.ly/IAIF3gk; 2.Closure of Constraints&Individuation of CausalSystems in Bio; 3.Transformative transdisciplinarity: intro to community-based philos- buff.ly/WWDpmpg

#RP_INRAE Une étude menée durant 10 ans sur 9 systèmes de cultures au sein d’unités expérimentales montre que cultiver sans pesticides est faisable techniquement et économiquement, sous certaines conditions.
👉 url.inrae.fr/3MLBa8u

A pastoralist and livestock in a grassland-based grazing system. CREDIT: Junxian Dai

Climate change may reduce the area of land suitable for grazing as much as 36 to 50% by 2100, endangering the livelihoods of 110–140 million pastoralists and potentially triggering widespread socioeconomic consequences. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Ol0650YhHmH

✊ Vous êtes désormais plus de 300 000 à dire «Non, c’est Non Monsieur Duplomb !»

Prochain objectif : les 500 000 signatures requises pour que le texte soit de nouveau débattu à l’Assemblée par les député·es.
✍️ Pour signer la pétition, c'est ici 👉 https://l.vert.eco/rz

🚀Campagne de concours externes INRAE ouverte : nous recherchons notre futur ingénieur de recherche en innovation agroécologique au sein de l'équipe "Biodiversité et services écosystémiques" !

Contact: @arusch.bsky.social

Infos complètes : jobs.inrae.fr/concours/con...

Ethiopian National Agroecology Strategy validated Ethiopia has formally validated its National Agroecology Strategy, concluding a year-long consultative process involving government, researchers and civil society.

Ethiopia has validated its National Agroecology Strategy, setting a pathway to strengthen livelihoods and build resilient food systems.

CIFOR-ICRAF contributed technical expertise throughout the process, supporting coordination and stakeholder engagement.

🔗: https://bit.ly/4kFG3wu

730 000 nouveaux cancers par an liés aux HPV… et pourtant, la vaccination reste à la traîne en France. À l’Hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou, la Pre Odile Launay alerte : ces cancers sont évitables, à condition d’accélérer la prévention chez les jeunes : www.aides.org/actualite/la...

Overcoming yield gaps in organic and biodynamic viticulture: insights from an 18-year field trial - Agronomy for Sustainable Development Addressing environmental degradation and fostering agricultural sustainability are critical challenges of the twenty-first century. Agroecological practices such as organic and biodynamic farming are ...

Döring, J., Steng, K., Wohlfahrt, Y. et al. Overcoming yield gaps in organic and biodynamic viticulture: insights from an 18-year field trial. Agron. Sustain. Dev. 46, 13 (2026).
doi.org/10.1007/s135...

Pesticides et cancer, la réponse de scientifiques à Catherine Hill : "Le problème n’est ni réglé, ni mineur" Neuf chercheurs appellent à la "vigilance" au sujet des traces de pesticides que l'on retrouve dans l'alimentation, même si les résultats scientifiques ne suffisent pas, pour le moment, à démontrer un...

Avec les plus spécialistes français de l'épidémiologie des pesticides, nous avons répondu aux propos problématiques de Mme Catherine Hill sur les liens entre cancer et pesticides

www.lexpress.fr/sciences-san...

village of Battir and its terraces. Battir holds UNESCO World Heritage status for its 4,000-year-old pre-Roman (Canaanite) irrigation system.

⚖️ 𝗡𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲🌿
The Bible doesn’t use the term #sustainability, but it deals with the underlying issues and shows that sustainability is inextricably linked to #justice.
It also refers to current issues such as #migration, #work and #productivity. Read the article👉 t.ly/WI_eX

Fig. 3. Percentage of reads attributed to carabid, prey and other for Nebria salina and Poecilus cupreus for samples from 2013 to 2019 and 2021. Colors distinguish between (a) prey reads (green), (b) carabid reads (blue) and (c) other reads (contaminants and not assigned – orange). Proportions are given as percentages of the total number per sample (after filtering the singletons).

Fig. 5. Prey diversity in the diet of Nebria salina (a) and Poecilus cupreus (b) through time. Each dot represents the diet of one carabid specimens, dots are jittered horizontally and vertically for more clarity. The curve corresponds to a linear regression with the grey area displaying the 95 % confidence interval.

🪲 New BAAE article:

Metabarcoding of stored carabid beetles reveals declining prey diversity over the last decade. Temporal diet shifts highlight long-term invertebrate declines and the value of historical collections for monitoring.

DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
@gfoesoc.bsky.social

Climate change could halve areas suitable for cattle, sheep and goat farming by 2100 09.02.2026 - A new study conducted at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) shows that grassland-based grazing systems – currently covering a third of the Earth’s surface and represe...

Depending on the emissions scenario analysed, PIK's new study in @pnas.org shows 36-50% of land with suitable climatic conditions for grazing today will experience a loss of viability by 2100, affecting more than 100mill pastoralists and up to 1.6bill animals🐄🐐🐑 www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Grazed grasslands at Yorkshire Dale, England. CREDIT: Shangshi Liu

Will removing livestock from historically grazed grasslands increase the carbon these lands store in their soil? Maybe not. A study finds that un-grazed grasslands in the UK have lower levels of stable, mineral-associated carbon than grazed plots. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/M1fi50YbGvi

📍Sentier pédagogique : le balisage de l'emplacement des stations a été réalisé hier !

Bientôt, petits et grands pourront découvrir biodiversité, élevage et paysages du Cézallier… avec même une activité de science participative autour des papillons 🦋

projet-coccinelle.hub.inrae.fr/nos-actualit...

Did you know that long-term use of agriecological practices support climate change resilience? 👨‍🌾🌱
🟢 For example, planting legumes alongside other crops – a centuries-old practice – can improve soil fertility and water infiltration into the soil.
Read more on the topic: www.step-bg.bg/en/novini/ag...

📃Legumes in crop rotations deliver real results.

A new #VALERECO white paper by @IntiaSa shows that wheat after legumes can achieve +17% yield and save 40 kg N/ha, while supporting pest and weed management.

👉https://tinyurl.com/46h6syj4

#HorizonEU #Agroecology #EcosystemServices

YouTube video by Agroecology-TRANSECT From research to practice: multi-species seed mixtures as a pillar for agroecology

Congrats! You may be interested by this webinar of @agtransect.bsky.social project 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN7m... and related papers:

✅ Nyfeler 2024 doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

🔷 Finn 2024 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

✴️ Lüscher 2025 brill.com/edcollchap-o...

⭐ Dumont 2025 doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

YouTube video by Agroecology-TRANSECT From research to practice: multi-species seed mixtures as a pillar for agroecology

Congrats! You may be interested by this webinar of @agtransect.bsky.social project 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN7m... and related papers:

✅ Nyfeler 2024 doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

🔷 Finn 2024 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

✴️ Lüscher 2025 brill.com/edcollchap-o...

⭐ Dumont 2025 doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Interested in a cross-analysis of how Romanian and French farmers are adapting to climate change? Watch Agroecology-TRANSECT webinar to find out more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu4m...

🌱 Necula et al 2024 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🐮 Allart et al 2024 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S174...

#agroecology

YouTube video by Agroecology-TRANSECT WEBINAR: Boosting farm resilience: Intercropping and sustainable pest management

Lessons from Guadeloupe
What can the #GlobalNorth learn from #IPM trials & research carried out in a #tropical region?

▶️ Webinar recording: Boosting farm resilience - intercropping and sustainable pest management
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xRx...

#agroecology4climate @agroecologymap.bsky.social

Tiny bird falcons called the American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) are helping keep the food supply safe on cherry farms | Their presence appears to lower the risk of food-borne illnesses from pathogens. \>Every spring, raptors return to nesting sites across northern Michigan. The smallest of these birds of prey, a falcon called the American kestrel (Falco sparverius), flies through the region’s many cherry orchards and spends its days hunting for even tinier creatures to eat. This quest keeps the kestrels fed, but it also benefits the region’s cherry farmers. \>Fruit farmers have been working symbiotically with kestrels for decades, adding nesting boxes and reaping the benefits of the birds eliminating the mice, voles, songbirds, and other pests that wreak havoc by feeding on not-yet-harvested crops. In addition to limiting the crop damage caused by hungry critters, new research suggests kestrels also lower the risk of food-borne illnesses. \>The study, published in November in the Journal of Applied Ecology, suggests the kestrels help keep harmful pathogens off of fruit headed to consumers by eating and scaring off small birds that carry those pathogens. Orchards housing the birds in nest boxes saw fewer cherry-eating birds than orchards without kestrels on site. This translated to an 81 percent reduction in crop damage—such as bite marks or missing fruit—and a 66 percent decrease in branches contaminated with bird feces. \>“Kestrels are not very expensive to bring into orchards, but they work pretty well” at deterring unwanted bird species, said Olivia Smith, lead study author and assistant professor of horticulture at Michigan State University. “And people just like kestrels a lot, so I think it’s an attractive strategy.” \>It may seem counterintuitive to solve a bird problem by bringing in more birds, but kestrels are skilled hunters whose presence drives off songbirds afraid of being eaten. Habitat loss, competition for food, and climate change are leading to slow and steady population declines for the American kestrel, losses of about 1.4 percent annually. Still, these birds are abundant enough that, in many areas of the continental United States, all farmers need to do to attract them is add a nesting box to their land. \>“I’ve noticed a difference having the kestrels around, hovering over the spring crops,” said Brad Thatcher, a farmer based in Washington state who has housed kestrels on April Joy Farm, an organic fruit and vegetable farm, for over 13 years. “There’s very little fecal damage from small songbirds at that time of year versus the fall.” \>With farmers who already had kestrels on their land reporting fewer songbirds and less crop damage, study authors hypothesized that food safety risks associated with pathogens birds carry may also be lower for farms harboring kestrels. To test this, the researchers evaluated 16 sweet cherry orchards in Michigan’s Leelanau and Grand Traverse counties (the latter of which is considered the “Cherry Capital of the World”). Eight of the orchards studied had nesting boxes for kestrels and eight did not. \>“Trying to get more birds of prey would be beneficial to farmers,” Smith said. “If you have one predator, versus a bunch of prey, you have fewer birds overall. If you have a lot fewer birds, even if the ones that are there are carrying bacteria, then you can reduce the transmission risk.” \>The study’s findings that kestrels significantly reduce physical damage and food safety risks on Michigan cherry farms demonstrate that managing crops and meeting conservation goals—by bolstering local kestrel populations and eliminating the need to clear wildlife habitat around agricultural areas—can be done in tandem, study authors say. They recommend farmers facing pest-management issues consider building kestrel boxes, which cost about $100 per box and require minimal maintenance.

Tiny falcons are making a big difference! American Kestrels are naturally protecting cherry farms, helping to keep our food supply safe and reduce the risk of food-borne illnesses. 🍒🐦 #WildlifeConservation #FoodSafety #Agroecology

La restructuration annoncée de Santé publique France provoque une onde de choc dans le champ de la santé publique. Sociétés savantes et acteurs-rices de la société civile dénoncent un affaiblissement de l’expertise scientifique indépendante : www.aides.org/actualite/la...

Long-term agricultural diversification increases financial profitability, biodiversity, and ecosystem services: a second-order meta-analysis - Nature Communications Feeding a growing population while protecting the environment is a major global challenge. This study suggests that agricultural diversification enhances long-term profitability, biodiversity, soil he...

Do agricultural diversification practices pay off in the long run? Our new paper synthesizes 100+ years of evidence showing that diversification practices become more profitable over time and delivers growing benefits for soils, biodiversity, and carbon.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...