Archives: Agenda

Posted on September 12, 2025

Submissions for the 16th International Farming Systems Association Conference (IFSA-Europe group) are now based on a short abstract (max. 400 words), and the deadline for abstract and special session proposal has been extended to 15 October 2025.

🔸 Details and submission portal: https://ifsa2026.sciencesconf.org

IFSA 2026 will take place in Montpellier, France, and is organised by the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier (CIHEAM-IAMM) from 29 June to 3 July 2026.

Under the overarching theme “Farming and Agri-Food Systems Dynamics: Facing Crises and Trade-Offs in Transition Pathways”, the conference will revisit current progress and debates in co-designing and advancing sustainable farming systems, with particular attention to how they confront crises, inform decisions across scales, and navigate the trade-offs and synergies shaping transition pathways and their impacts.

Paper submissions for the IFSA 2026 conference are organised around four main themes:

• Theme 2: Landscape and communities
• Theme 1: Transformative changes
• Theme 3: Capacity development to support systemic change
• Theme 4: Food Production, Consumption, Food Landscape & WEFE Nexus

🔸 Submit your abstract for IFSA 2026

Special session proposals are encouraged and may be submitted via the same platform.

Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary community, the event will foster critical reflection and dialogue across research and practice.

The conference will be preceded by a PhD course.

Chairs of the IFSA 2026 Steering Committee: Hatem Belhouchette and Paolo Prosperi – CIHEAM-IAMM

Contact: ifsa2026@iamm.fr

This event is organised with the organisational support provided by Agropolis International

Posté le 04 août 2025

Posted on July 31, 2025

Posted on July 21, 2025

Posted on July 15, 2025

From July 8 to 12, 2025: organisation of a FPC session, in collaboration with IMIDRA (Instituto Madrileño de Investigación y Desarrollo Rural, Agrario y Alimentario) as part of the ERASMUS Agrario programme.

CIHEAM Montpellier welcomed some fifteen winegrowers and winemakers from the Madrid region, as well as researchers and institutions from IMIDRA and the Community of Madrid, for a training session on the sustainability of the wine industry and the use of new technologies. The training alternates between classroom sessions, technical visits and meetings with farmers and players in the wine industry in the Hérault and Occitanie regions.

Posted on July 04, 2025

On June 30, July 1, and 2, 2025, in Cairo, the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD), the Egyptian Agricultural Research Center (ARC), and CIHEAM Montpellier organised a regional conference dedicated to the governance of the “Water-Environment-Food-Energy” Nexus in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Based on the sharing of results from several projects carried by the three co-organizers (SUPMED, NATAE, STE CATHERINE, etc.), the 80 participants of the conference were asked to reflect on the third day on how to set up an interface dedicated to the “science, society, policy” dialogue to better inform public policies in favour of more sustainable and resilient agriculture in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. A roadmap was developed to guide the work of CIHEAM Montpellier, particularly within the framework of the DIONYSUS project, in the coming months.

To find out more: https://www.supmed-project.com/

From left to right: Dr Adel Abdel Azzim Abu Al Yazid Al Akhdar, President of the Agricultural Research Center, Egyptian delegate to the CIHEAM. Dr Amjad Badr, Syrian Minister of Agriculture. Pr Ibrahim Al Dukheri, Director General of the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development. Thierry Dupeuble, Director of the CIHEAM Montpellier