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07 October 2026

By: The AgroEcoNum team

Pl@ntNet is rolling out its new ‘Diseases and Pests’ feature

Identifying a disease or pest from a photograph: this is now possible with Pl@ntNet’s new ‘Diseases & Pests’ feature. Developed as part of the Pl@ntAgroEco project under the PEPR Agroecology and Digital Technology programme, this feature uses artificial intelligence to facilitate the identification of plant diseases and opens up new possibilities for monitoring the health of crops.
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07 October 2026

By: The AgroEcoNum team

[REPORT] How is digital technology helping pastoral livestock farming?

The United Nations has designated 2026 as the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists. This is an opportunity to highlight these livestock-rearing systems, which make the most of natural resources, maintain the countryside and contribute to biodiversity and the resilience of local areas.
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01 October 2026

By: The AgroEcoNum team

IPIDEO Project Annual Meeting

A brilliant launch for the IPIDEO project: Study of plant-insect interactions and the factors influencing behaviour using digital tools and video tracking.
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23 September 2026

By: The AgroEcoNum Team

[REVIEW] The role of agricultural machinery and digital technologies in sustainable crop protection

In light of the challenges posed by climate change, biodiversity, water quality and public health, reducing pesticide use is a priority.
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09 July 2026

By: AgroEcoNum

CoEDiTAg Project Annual Meeting

How does the development of Digital Equipment and Technologies (EDiTs) contribute to the agroecological transition?
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07 July 2026

By: AgroEcoNum

CoBreeding Project Annual Meeting

How can breeding programmes be developed to provide a greater number of more diverse and complementary genotypes, so as to cover a broad spectrum of environmental conditions and current and future production systems?
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29 June 2026

By: AgroEcoNum

ADAAPT Project Annual Meeting

What if the imprints left by the environment on the genomes of plants and animals could help us better support the agroecological transition?
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29 June 2026

By: AgroEcoNum

[VIDEO] Launch of the AI-Herbage project

How can we support grassland farms in the face of increasingly variable feed resources, climatic uncertainties and the need to preserve biodiversity? It was against this backdrop that the AI-Herbage project was launched; the project was selected in the latest PEPR call for proposals on 8 and 9 June 2026 at the Institut Agro Montpellier’s La Gaillarde campus.
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29 June 2026

By: AgroEcoNum

Annual meeting of the AgroDiv and BReIF projects

In the face of climate change and against the backdrop of an ongoing agroecological transition, the genetic diversity of plants and animals is a key driver for building a more sustainable and resilient agricultural sector. However, the breeds and varieties currently in use represent only a small fraction of the genetic diversity available in our national collections.
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29 June 2026

By: AgroEcoNum

Launch of the AI4DIET project

How can animal feed rations be optimised to support the agroecological transition of livestock farming systems? This is the central focus of the AI4DIET project, a winner of the latest PEPR call for proposals, whose launch event took place on 26 May at INRAE Centre-Siège in Paris.
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02 June 2026

By: AgroEcoNum

Launch of the TreeD-Resist project

What if the orchards of tomorrow were designed not only to produce… but also to withstand challenges? Faced with climate change, health pressures and dependence on inputs, current orchard systems are reaching their limits. How can we design orchards that remain productive whilst being more resilient to environmental and biological stresses? This is the central challenge of the TreeD-Resist project, winner of the latest call for proposals under the PEPR Agroecology and Digital programme, which was launched on 18 and 19 May at the INRAE Pays de la Loire centre in Angers (and via videoconference for some of the teams in Avignon and Montpellier in particular), bringing together a consortium comprising INRAE, Inria and CIRAD around a shared ambition: to better understand, measure and predict the immunity and resilience of agroecological orchards.
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26 June 2026

By: AgroEcoNum

Launch of the Past2Eco project

What if the crops of tomorrow were to be found in the biodiversity of yesterday? That is the central aim of the Past2ECO project, whose kick-off meeting was held on 12 and 13 May at the Centre’s Cézeaux Campus.
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20 May 2026

By: AgroEcoNum

MISTIC Project Annual Meeting

The MISTIC project (Crop Microbiomes and Information and Communication Technologies) under the PEPR AgroEcoNum programme held its annual scientific meeting on 28 and 29 April at the Sophia Agrobiotech Institute and the Inria Centre at the Université Côte d’Azur.
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07 May 2026

By: AgroEcoNum

Berl’Eyes: a tool for quickly detecting and quantifying rapeseed flea beetle larvae using a smartphone

Terres Inovia, with support from the AgroEcoPhen project under the PEPR Agroecology and Digital Initiative, will launch the Berl’Eyes tool in May 2026, which automatically counts rapeseed flea beetle larvae using a single photo. Using artificial intelligence, this tool simplifies a counting method that was previously time-consuming and tedious, and addresses a major challenge for the oilseed and protein crop sector.
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07 May 2026

By: AgroEcoNum

5 interviews to watch on video

The PEPR AgroEcoNum’s participation in Trans Numériques 2026, held from February 2 to 5, 2026, in Rennes, provided an opportunity to interview the program’s scientists.
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03 June 2026

By: AgroEcoNum

A look back at Trans Numériques 2026

From 2 to 5 February 2026, Rennes hosted the first edition of Trans Numériques, a scientific conference that brought together the communities of 13 research programmes supported by the France 2030 plan to explore the challenges of the digital continuum: performance, robustness, security, resource efficiency and societal impact. The event attracted over 1,000 participants.
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24 April 2026

By: AgroEcoNum

Five new projects have joined the AgroEcoNum programme!

Discover the successful applicants from the second and final call for proposals under the Agroecology and Digital Technology research programme. With the addition of five new projects, the programme now comprises 23 research and infrastructure projects, each funded for five years with a budget of between €1 million and €3 million. These projects serve to strengthen and complement the scientific themes supported by the programme and the associated expertise.
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31 March 2026

By: AgroEcoNum

A look back at the PEPR AgroEcoNum Annual Conference 2026

On 6 February 2026, against the magnificent backdrop of the Couvent des Jacobins in Rennes, the annual conference of the PEPR Agroecology and Digital Technology brought together around a hundred people (research organisations, universities, schools, the National Research Agency, the Ministry of Agriculture, and socio-economic partners).
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27 February 2026

By: AgroEcoNum

The AgroEcoNum PEPR at the 2026 International Agricultural Show

On Thursday, 26 February 2026, during the International Agricultural Show, the PEPR Agroecology and Digital Technology programme took part in the meeting entitled ‘Artificial intelligence: what transformative potential for agriculture?’ at the INRAE stand.
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16 January 2026

By: AgroEcoNum

WAIT4 annual meeting: assessing animal welfare in the face of agroecological transition challenges

On 8 January 2026 in Rennes, the scientific community of the WAIT4 project ‘Artificial intelligence and new technologies to assess relevant welfare indicators for animals facing the challenges of agroecological transition’ met for a day of rich discussion and sharing, marking three years of scientific progress since its launch.
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01 April 2026

By: AgroEcoNum

PEPR AgroEcoNum publishes its booklet of key scientific facts for 2025

Discover an initial overview of the scientific results from the first wave of funded projects.
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