Research projects
Our current research projects
Last update: 15 September 2023
The research projects conducted by the MoISA unit cover a broad scientific spectrum and are financed by a number of different sponsors (French or European public funds, international organisations, private foundations, etc). A selection of research projects is presented below:
The projects are classified according to the type of funding:
[EU] = European Union
[ANR] = Agence Nationale de la Recherche
[ORG] = International organisations (FAO, UNESCO, etc.)
[PUBLIC] = French public funds (Agropolis Fondation, AFD, etc.)
[PRIVATE] = Private foundations
[OTHER] = Other funding
Last update: 15 September 2023
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The aims of Contracts2.0 is to foster the “co-conception of contractual models for innovative agri-environmental contracts or other means of promoting environmental public goods” -
Data4Food2030 aims to improve the data economy for food systems by expanding its definition, mapping its development, performance and impact to create new insights and opportunities. -
[EU] FEAST project - Food systems that support transitions to hEalthy And Sustainable dieTs
This project aims to support the European Union's just transition towards healthy diets produced by sustainable food systems. -
The EU-funded HealthyFoodAfrica project aims at improving access to safe, nutritious food across Africa in a socioeconomically and environmentally sustainable and resilient manner as major systemic challenges. -
[EU] InnoFoodAfrica project - Codevelopment of plant based value chains in Africa
The project will address key bottlenecks of African food value chains – low productivity, limited access to urban and international markets, affordability and convenience of products. It will tailor actions to develop novel solutions for agriculture, food manufacturing and use of residual biomass for packaging in a local context. -
[EU] NRF project - Knowledge and Research for Nutrition
The Nutrition Research Facility (NRF) project entitled « Knowledge and Research for Nutrition” aims to provide enhanced knowledge and data for the design, management, monitoring and evaluation of the policies and programmes with a view to obtaining better results in terms of nutrition -
Rethinking of antimicrobial decision-systems in the management of animal production. ROADMAP is an interdisciplinary project that combines social sciences (sociology, economics) and animal and veterinary sciences. ROADMAP analyses the socio-econmic drivers of antimicrobial use, develops tailored strategies for changes and proposes transition scenarios in diverse farm animal production systems in Europe and low and middle income countries. -
Disadvantaged populations in West Africa are often faced with nutritional deficiencies stemming from a lack of fruit and vegetable necessary to a balanced diet. With regard to climate change, supply risks in the fruit and vegetables sector in West Africa remain unclear. -
[EU] SWM project - The Sustainable Wildlife Management
The Sustainable Wildlife Management Programme is a major international initiative that aims to improve wildlife conservation and food security. Field projects are being implemented in 13 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. The project includes the study of the role of wild meat in the local food systems, the drivers and dynamic of this consumption, and the levers for changes. -
[UE] NRF Project - Nutrition Research Facility
Schools interventions: Which interventions are (or could be) implemented to promote nutritious diets of adolescents living in urban Africa in the context of nutrition transition. A case study for Kenya (Nairobi and Kiambu) -
The TAMMIE project aims to assess the "double burden of malnutrition" around a "4P cycle" (Problem, Policies/Programmes, People, Priority) to propose a strategy adapted to the fight against malnutrition in Ethiopia. -
[EU] TITAN project - Transparency solutions for transforming the food system
TITAN is an EU-funded project that will demonstrate the latest transparency-related solutions to help drive the formation of a demand-driven European economy predicted on the production and consumption of healthy, sustainable, and affordable food. -
Switching European food systems for a just, healthy and sustainable dietary transition through knowledge and innovation -
Urban food systems need a radical and bold transformation. AfriFOODlinks aims to initiate this transition in a creative way, by tackling the systemic underpinnings of food insecurity and the impact of food systems on the environment. The project aims to promote change in more than 65 cities around the world. -
The project Generation H: Multi-component interventions to reducing unhealthy diets and physical inactivity among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa aims to reduce two important modifiable risk factors for NCDs: unhealthy diets and physical inactivity and their underlying social determinants among adolescents (aged 10-19 years) living in mixed socio-economic urban communities in two SSA countries (Ghana & Kenya) by designing, deploying, and evaluating strategies for implementation of evidenced and theory based interventions mapped on to the WHO Best Buys. -
[ANR] BBSC project - The blockchain for participatory, transparent food supply chains...
This ANR project aims to understand how the blockchain transforms supply chains to make them more participatory, transparent and effective, contributing to more sustainable food systems. -
MED-LINKS "Data-Enabled Business Models and Market Linkages Enhancing Value Creation and Distribution in Mediterranean Fruit and Vegetable Supply Chains"" aims at providing small-scale producers with tailored and effective solutions enhancing efficiency, sustainability and fairness along fruit and vegetable supply chains in Mediterranean countries. -
Resistance to AntiMicrobials: socio-Economic factors and regulations influencing emergence and dissemination in the countries of the South. -
This project aims to support the transition to winegrowing without pesticides. VITAE is a project involving 118 permanent staff, including 66 researchers from INRAE, the Université de Bordeaux, the Université de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Bordeaux Science Agro and Montpellier SupAgro. The Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin (ISVV) in Bordeaux, The Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Vigne et du Vin (IHEV) in Montpellier and the Institut Jules Guyot in Dijon constitute the multidisciplinary centres of the VITAE project. -
[ANR] CoEDiTAg project - Coevolution of equipment, digital technologies and agroecological models
CoEDiTAg aims to understand the coevolution between the development trajectories of Digital Equipment and Technologies (DEiTs) and the transformation of structures, arrangements and organizations in the agricultural sector. -
Governance, innovation and sustainability performance in agricultural co-ops. The case of French wine co-ops -
[ANR] CARI project - Observatory of Eating Behavior in La Réunion
CARI is an observatory that aims to produce monitoring data on eating habits in La Réunion, their sustainability and their individual and environmental determinants, thereby enabling the levers of food systems at this local level to be identified, for more sustainable diets. -
The aim of the project is to explore the effects of an urban development programme on environmental exposure (air quality, noise, transport, food landscape), health behaviour (diet, physical activity and sedentariness) and health. -
[PUBLIC] #DigitAg project - Digital Agriculture Convergence Lab
The Institute conducts interdisciplinary research between agricultural sciences, engineering sciences, social sciences and management, bringing together more than 570 experts in these fields to produce the scientific and pedagogical bases necessary to ensure the smooth deployment of digital agriculture in France, Europe and the countries of the South. -
[PUBLIC] KIM project - Nutrition & Health
The Key Initiatives Muse (KIM) are themed, cross-cutting measures designed to promote the unique identity of MUSE (Montpellier Université d'Excellence). The Nutrition & Health KIM aims to promote healthy and sustainable dietary practices from the standpoint of research, development and education. -
CAn Local Agriculture help improve the nutritional quality of food and reducing the environmental impact in GuadeLOUpe? -
Food consumption and nutritional status of the population living on the coast of French Guiana. This project aims to assess the nutritional status of the population aged 5 and over living on the coast of French Guiana and to describe food consumption in the broadest sense of the expression. -
[PUBLIC] IIABA project - Institutionalisation of organic agriculture in Africa
Study and implementation of the main institutional levers (markets, guarantees, public policies) for the development of organic agriculture in Africa. -
[PUBLIC] Jeune Equipe Associée IRD (JEAI) TANIT
The JEAI (Jeune Equipe Associée IRD) TANIT (Transition Alimentaire et Nutritionnelle Intégrée en Tunisie) is part of the IRD initiative targeting the emergence or strengthening of scientific capabilities of the research teams in the countries of the South within the framework of scientific partnerships with the IRD. The aims is to organise a team of researchers from several Tunisian institutions by undertaking a research and training project on the theme of dietary and nutritional transition data in Tunisia. -
[PUBLIC] PUMAT project - For attractive market gardening
The aim of the project is to promote health, local and gainful production for market gardeners in Martinique. This multidisciplinary project focuses on 3 objectives: 1°) Identification of the issues facing the stakeholders in the chain and the strategies adopted to reduce the use of phytosanitary products; 2°) agronomic assessment and adoption of combinations of alternatives; 3°) economic and agronomic validation, at the scale of the island, of the combinations of alternatives identified. -
[PRIVATE] Food Consumed Away From Home project
The aim of this project is to design, test and validate a survey module which collects information on food consumer away from home in surveys on household income and expenditure.
