Coevolution of Equipment, Digital Technologies and Agroecological models

The Coevolution of Equipment, Digital Technologies and Agroecological models project, funded by the ANR's priority research program and equipment, is managed by Pierre Labarthe, Director of Research at INRAE. It brings together 16 research units and around 50 permanent researchers and academics in the social sciences, including Sylvain Brunier and Jean-Noël Jouzel for the CSO, alongside AGIR, DATASPHERE, INNOVATIONS, ITAP, LEREPS, TERRITOIRES and TETIS.

The project will begin from March 2023 to February 2028.

The CoEDiTAg project (Coevolution of Equipment, Digital Technologies and Agroecological models) aims to understand the co-evolution between 1) the trajectories of development of equipment and digital technologie, and 2) the transformations of the structures, arrangements and organisations that frame agroecological transitions. This project posits that the direction of this coevolution is not predetermined and depends, to a large extent, on the strategies of actors, their socio-economic interactions and public policies. Indeed, Equipment and Digital Technologies (EDiTs) can reinforce the industrialisation of agriculture or be a lever for a stronger ecologisation of agriculture. CoEDiTAg gathers research in different social sciences to understand the mechanisms of this co-evolution.