INOSYS Field Crops

A Call for Expressions of Interest (CEI) titled “Transition and Sovereignty” in June 2024 aimed to foster the emergence of collaborative applied research and development initiatives. Among the priority themes, it highlighted the need to structure the method for producing technical, economic, social, and environmental benchmarks for the purposes of forecasting and steering crop sectors.
  

Within the network of Chambers of Agriculture, the value of reviving an INOSYS network focused on field crop farms with national coordination could, in this context, help create benchmarks that inform the fields of Research & Development, consulting, and public policy impact assessments.
  

For partner plant science research institutes (Arvalis, ITB, Terres Inovia), the challenge lies in relying on a representative observatory.
  

• Develop and monitor indicators that characterize farm performance from a multi-criteria perspective (economic, social, and environmental) by establishing a link between agronomic and management practices and economic, environmental, and social performance.
•    Support agricultural sectors by providing benchmarks to reliably and robustly address the issue of economic performance, particularly within the EGALIM framework through the provision of production costs.
• Assist project leaders with farm establishment and succession, or support farms in evolving their agricultural practices, and analyze the impacts of transitions in cropping and production systems.
 

For Terres
Inovia• Maintain a collection of up-to-date case studies directly accessible on Systerre® to evaluate innovations or identify the conditions for adopting levers of the agroecological transition.

• Be able to assess the socioeconomic and environmental impacts at the level of field crop farms of innovative sector-wide approaches (potentially in collaboration with Terres Univia) and of public and regulatory policies that may impact the development of oilseeds and grain legumes.
 

Overall•
An organized, representative network of reference farms spread across mainland
France• A common, shared methodology for data collection, storage, and the generation of benchmarks at the production and cropping
system levels• A multi-stakeholder team of experts with complementary skills and a national and regional presence to disseminate and promote the benchmarks generated
 

For Terres
Inovia• An observatory that complements existing initiatives with a specific “production system”
focus• A repository of up-to-date benchmarks at the production system level for use in various case studies