INRA and environment
With global climate change, the environmental functions of the ecosystems used have become a major concern, inseparable from their productive value. The relationship between agriculture and environment becomes obvious in the collective thought process. Although the tensions that it arouses are not appeased, the public no longer takes an excessively Manichean viewpoint. Consumer of resources, agriculture is also the root of environmental services, preserving the atmosphere, water or biodiversity. And let’s not forget that agriculture itself is likewise affected by atmospheric pollution and pathogenic migration.
INRA research is dedicated to specific topics: quantifying and modelling the impacts of production systems and global changes, the functions and dynamics of the ecosystems used, their technical and socioeconomic determinants. In addition, creating a more ecological agriculture and the conditions for its development constitute a truly collective challenge. INRA now occupies a major position in environmental research on the national and international levels.
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