Scientific Network

Agropolis Fondation coordinates a network of research units in “Agriculture and Sustainable Development”.

This multidisciplinary scientific network builds a continuum of scientific knowledge on plants: from the gene to the agro-ecosystem and the end use of plants, with recognised expertise on a very large number of plant species in temperate, tropical and Mediterranean regions. This network includes more than 40 research units located in Montpellier and its surroundings, but also in Reunion Island and the West Indies with about 1,600 scientists and 600 PhD students.

Our network’s expertise is organised around five key scientific fields:
• Plant biology
• Biology of plant biotic interactions
• Agronomy and management of agro-ecosystems
• Sciences of food and non-food processing
• Social sciences and agriculture-society interactions

Scientific priorities
The Foundation supports scientific projects that foster an integrated, multidisciplinary approach, to address plants in their multiple dimensions (from gene to plant community; from plot to agro-ecosystem; from field to plate; from local to global).

It primarily finances projects that combine temperate, Mediterranean and tropical issues, and make a significant contribution to the major challenges of sustainable development. It supports scientific and educational programmes that are innovative, federative, interdisciplinary and inclusive based on three cross-cutting areas:

• Climate change: mitigation and adaptation
• Biodiversity: conservation and sustainable use
• Responsible production and consumption