Dossier Interdisciplinarité Un regard sur l'interdisciplinarité à l'Inra

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Un regard sur l'interdisciplinarité à l'Inra Point de vue de deux chercheurs du département Sciences pour l'action et le développement (SAD)

Comment faciliter la construction et la conduite des projets interdisciplinaires : retour d’expérience d’un programme de recherche sur la gestion intégrée de la santé des animaux en élevage

“…Associer les parties prenantes au choix des hypothèses de travail peut sembler difficile et nécessiter plus de temps. Néanmoins, cette coconception enrichit le projet par les réflexions pertinentes des acteurs de terrain sur les questions qu'ils se posent dans leur métier (Calavas et Rosner, 1997 ;Deffontaines et Hubert, 2004). Le travail de traduction des questions de société en questions de recherche est en soi un processus long et complexe, qui nécessite du temps (Hubert et Bonnemaire, 2000 ;Houe, 2003).…”

What do our research friends say about the coexistence and confrontation of agricultural and food models? Introduction to the special issue

“…In addition, five articles propose interdisciplinary approaches combining geography, sociology, economics, and/or the management sciences (5,7,9) or else refer to comparative agriculture (6, 8). 3 This interdisciplinarity, favourable to-or even necessary for-the analysis of complex systems (Desfontaines and Hubert 2004), seems very suitable to us for characterizing and interpreting situations of coexistence of agricultural and food models. The diversity of disciplines also shows that there is no single theoretical framework for analyzing situations of coexistence; it has to be constructed/proposed/adapted by the authors according to their disciplinary anchoring, the research theme, etc.…”

French research traditions on peasant agricultural systems: a convergence with political ecology?

“…Created to study the resistance of farmers to the adoption of innovation, the SAD from the beginning has brought together researchers from both the agronomic and social sciences, and centered its studies on practices, organizations, and perceptions linked to farming and natural resource management (Meynard 2010). It has been one of the pioneers of interdisciplinary research on the rural world (Deffontaines and Hubert 2004).…”