Laboratory of Excellence in co-engineering for Sustainable Agrosystems (LEAD)

World food systems are central to meet sustainability goals, yet major transformations are required. Nearly one billion people remain undernourished, and current modalities of agricultural production tend to exacerbate social inequalities and contribute to biodiversity loss, water pollution and natural resource depletion, as well as a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. A transformation of food systems is urgently needed to achieve environmental, economic and social sustainability. In the face of these challenges, increasing attention is being paid to nature-based solutions such as agroecology that can support radical transformation. We propose to build an International Joint Laboratory (IJL) to address sustainability issues in Cambodia’s ricebased food systems, which are central to the national economy and culture. The IJL is grounded in an interdisciplinary approach involving multiple scientific disciplines (natural and social sciences) and a multiplicity of actors (scientists, agricultural engineers, farmers, NGOs, decision makers and donors). The main scientific goal is to develop and promote diversification as a solution to enhance the health of rice-based agrosystems in Cambodia and their contribution to food security, via notably a reduction in chemical (pesticide) use, better water management, and a better valorisation of in-situ agrobiodiversity.

Responsables du projet

• Dr Suong Malyna (Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC)) [email protected]
• Lionel MOULIN (Plant Health Institute of Montpellier / PHIM) [email protected]
  
  
  Principaux partenaires
   
• Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC): Healthyrice laboratory, Soil laboratory, Water laboratory
• Royal University of Agronomy (RUA): Faculty of Agricultural
• Economics and Rural Development, Soil Laboratory, Agroecological
• Living Laboratory, Digital Economy Laboratory
• National University of Battambang (NUBB)
• UMR Plant Health Institute of Montpellier / PHIM
• UMR Institut d’écologie et des sciences de l’environnement de Paris / iEES Paris
• UMR Gestion de l’Eau, Acteurs, Usages / G-EAU
• UMR Diversité, Adaptation et développement des plantes / DIADE
  
  Scientific disciplines : Agronomy, Ethnoecology, Food technology, Geography, Hydrology, Geochemistry, Microbiology, Modeling, Parasitology, Participatory Science, Plant science, Population genomics, Soil science