dicoAE stakeholders

Launched in 2015 by INRAE, the Dictionary of Agroecology is run by an editorial committee composed of two editors-in-chief, an editorial coordinator and a group of editors belonging to organisations involved in the dissemination and transfer of knowledge in the agricultural world : ACTA, ENVT, Institut Agro Rennes-Angers, INRAE, PURPAN.
The diversity of the associated organisations aims to broaden the possible contexts and meanings of agroecology through agricultural practices and the food and non-food systems associated with them.

Our editorial board

Marie-Benoît Magrini

Research Engineer in Economics, INRAE Toulouse, UMR AGIR, Editor-in-Chief

Simon Giuliano

Research professor in agronomy, PURPAN, INRAE Toulouse, UMR AGIR, Editor-in-Chief

Valérie Pagneux

INRAE, DipSO, ACDC, Editorial manager

Christine Feuillet-Coudray

Director of Research in Human Nutrition, INRAE ​​Montpellier, UMR DMEM, Editorial board member

Hélène Gross

Biodiversity and agroecology project manager – Head of the Impact and Open Innovation division at ACTA, Editorial board member

Alain Ducos

Professor in animal genetics, National Veterinary School of Toulouse (ENVT), INRAE ​​Toulouse, UMR GenPhySE, Editorial board member 

Catherine Darrot

Research Fellow in sociology, Rennes-Angers agro institute, Editorial board member

The DICOAE editorial board has also benefited in the past from the valuable contributions of Nathalie Couix, Jean-Pierre Sarthou, Laurent Hazard, Jean-Pierre Theau, Michel Duru, Anne Jacquin, Edith Le Cadre-Barthelemy.

Our authors

The dictionary of agroecology associates a diversity of authors in the writing of definitions. More than 170 authors are mobilized for the dictionary. A wide range of disciplines from the biotechnical sciences and the humanities and social sciences are represented: agronomy, zootechnics, ecology, biology, sociology, economics, geography, management sciences, etc. In the same way, the diversity of generational affiliation and the institutional and professional attachment of the authors represents a source of plurality of approaches, styles and points of view from which the dictionary benefits. Each definition is written, according to precise specifications, by one or more scientific experts, sometimes accompanied by professional partners and actors from the agricultural world, such as the National Botanical Conservatory, the Scientific Interest Groups (GIS), the Regional Nature Parks, the Chambers of Agriculture, the Agricultural Technical Institutes, etc., as well as students from schools of higher education in agrobiosciences.

Dear reader of this site: For each author of the definitions already online, you will find the Name and the First name, the defined term(s) or concept(s), the status and his email contact.

We are currently looking for interested scientists to contribute.
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Our partners

INP ENSAT

ENSAT

The École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse (ENSAT) which integrates in the training curriculum of the 3rd year of the AGREST specialization “AGRoEcology of the Production System to the Territory”, the co-writing of definitions with INRAE scientists, teacher-researchers of the INP-Toulouse or of other research and teaching organizations

Purpan

The PURPAN School of Engineering, which integrates into the curriculum of 5th year students the co-writing of definitions with INRAE scientists, teacher-researchers from INP-Toulouse or other research and teaching organizations.

ENSAV

The National School of Audiovisual of Toulouse (ENSAV) which realizes through internships of students in University Diploma of Research and Creation in Audiovisual (DURCA) the videos associated with the written definitions of the dictionary.

Our supporters

INRAE through the scientists of the research units who write the written definitions of the terms of the dictionary and accompany the realization of the videos: Joint Research Units AGIR, DYNAFOR, GenPhyse and other research units outside Toulouse.

The direction for the Open Science (DipSO – INRAE) by the support of the ACDC pole for the editorial management and by the support of the Num4Sci pole for the construction of vocabulary and the creation and maintenance of the web support.

The agro-ecology dictionary receives financial support for research and development projects. To date, it has mainly received financial support from the Occitanie Region (INRAE-PSDR4 2015-2019 research project – ATA-RI “Accompaniment of Agroecological Transformations – Research Intervention”.