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Public policy support – Platforms and systems
INRAE scientists and their partners talk about the platforms and facilities on which they collaborate to conduct experiments, set up epidemiological or health surveillance, develop integrated, multi-scale approaches, or manage large-scale data to inform public policies in the fields of agriculture, food and the environment.

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Permanent public policy support systems
Within the research-expertise-public policy support continuum, permanent public policy support systems are dedicated to supporting public policies and have their own permanent resources. INRAE is involved in various ways in the research-expertise-public policy support continuum.
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Scientists talk about their public policy support activities
An application to design agro-ecological transition scenarios
Rémy Ballot works in a research team that has been able to anticipate the necessary changes towards more sustainable farming practices …
Rémy Ballot
Research engineer, Agronomist, INRAE
Understanding ammonia volatilisation in the field to reduce air pollution
Sophie Génermont is conducting research at UMR ECOSYS into the volatilisation of ammonia from field crops. This gas …
Sophie Génermont
Research Officer, Fertilisation and air quality, INRAE
Assessing farms’ sustainability with the new IDEA version 4 method
Coordinated by Frédéric Zahm, work on the IDEA method has resulted in the new version 4 …
Frédéric Zahm
Agro-economist, INRAE
An observatory to support public policy
Since 2017, Ghislaine Narayanane has been co-piloting the food observatory, Oqali, launched in 2008 by …
Ghislaine Narayanane
Research engineer, Agronomist specialising in nutrition, INRAE
Geomatics between science and land use management
Lessem is a unit that carries out research into man and ecology in the mountain environment …
Frédéric Bray
Research engineer, Specialist database developer, INRAE
Modelling to help manage water and wastewater networks
Yves Le Gat conducts research as part of the Gestion Patrimoniale des Infrastructures liées à l’Eau …
Yves Le Gat
Researcher in Applied Statistics for Infrastructure Asset Management, INRAE
Our partners talk about their collaboration with scientists
A long history of collaboration between science and Schapi in flood forecasting
“The Schapi runs the VIGICRUES network and coordinates flood forecasting on a national scale, in particular with …

Bruno Janet
French Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion
From the dossier: 30 years of flood prevention research – Open thematic
Lire le témoignage: A long history of collaboration between science and Schapi in flood forecastingMaploup, a mediation tool between breeders, shepherds, elected representatives and government departments
“I’m the mayor of a commune in the Belledonne massif, which straddles the departments of Savoie and …

Pierre-Yves Bonnivard
Maire de Saint-Colomban-des-Villards
From the dossier: Information systems to facilitate regional management – Open thematic
Lire le témoignage: Maploup, a mediation tool between breeders, shepherds, elected representatives and government departmentsScience in support of pastoral associations: geomatics at the service of livestock farmers
“The Association Départementale d’Économie Montagnarde de la Drôme (ADEM) helps to support and develop …
Dominique Narboux
ADEM Drôme
From the dossier: Information systems to facilitate regional management – Open thematic
Lire le témoignage: Science in support of pastoral associations: geomatics at the service of livestock farmersPlatforms and systems in our dossiers at the interface between science and public policy

Thematic dossier
Info&Sols, a partnership-based system to understand and monitor soil in France
As an essential support for human activities, soil is a natural resource that provides numerous functions and ecosystem services. It is therefore at the heart …

Thematic dossier
Forest reproductive material: a challenge for tomorrow’s forests
Thanks to French public policies focused on reforestation through planting, France has increased its forest area by …

Thematic dossier
Science and the Water Framework Directive: 20 years of hydrobiology research for aquatic environments’ good ecological status
The challenge set in 2000 by the European Water Framework Directive was to restore European water bodies to good status within twenty years…
Platforms and systems projects
CoForMO project: feasibility study for the use of a mobile data collection and centralisation tool
AFD was asked to support the Communauté Forestière du Moyen-Ouémé (CoForMO) in Benin on a project financed by the French Global Environment Facility (FGEF) to assess the relevance and feasibility of using mobile data collection and centralization tools to improve the monitoring system. As part of this project, based on the CoForMO inventories, the Laboratoire…
Project leader(s) :
Julien Ancelin – UE Saint-Laurent-de-la-Prée (DSLP), Pays-de-la-Loire
Partner(s) :
AFD/FFEM (DAEM)
SFSC : Supply Chains : research brief/Chaînes d’approvisionnement
Research note Commissioned in 2018 by the BMGF (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) on this topic, the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) created the ESAD platform in 2019. Building a cross-sector community, this platform coordinates the activities of a wide range of stakeholders (35 key players in society: industry, civil society, research centres, universities,…
Project leader(s) :
Yuna Chiffoleau – Unité INNOVATION, dpt ACT – SupAgro Montpellier
Partner(s) :
BMGF – IEEP
CREWS – West Africa : Evaluation of flood early warning systems
As part of the implementation of the CREWS (Climate Risk & Early Warning Systems) West Africa project, WMO and INRAE have signed an agreement to provide expertise to enable INRAE to propose an analysis of existing early warning systems and recommendations for a methodological framework for forecasting flash floods in West Africa. For INRAE, this…
Project leader(s) :
Maria Helena Ramos – Hydro – unité HYCAR, Antony
Partner(s) :
WMO/OMM, World Bank – GFDRR

