TAF (Tropical AgroForestry) project
TAF (Tropical AgroForestry) project
Who are we?
Thibault Martino (21), Justin Rousset (21) and Léa Pouget (22), 3 students in their final year of the Licence Bio-Eco program at Fds. All three of us are aiming for a Master's degree in tropical plant ecology and/or agricultural systems, which will enable us to acquire new skills for our respective professional projects.
=> Thibault intends to base his future on working with local populations to develop sustainable agriculture based on agroforestry and agroecology techniques.
=> Justin is interested in the management and conservation of natural tropical areas, a source of biodiversity essential to understanding ecosystems.
=> Léa would like to get involved in applied research, in the service of the balance between biodiversity and community use of the forest.
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A description of our project
Despite this pandemic period, the world is moving forward and our problems are not solving themselves: our consumption patterns, particularly our relationship to food and its production, are an ecological and humanitarian disaster. Generating a strong impact of pollutants on biodiversity, deregulating the climate, even affecting our own health (UN 2017, Report of the special rapporteur on the right to food). This is a global issue, but it is all the more relevant to developing countries, and tropical countries in particular. Indeed, in these latitudes, the effects of our overproduction are more strongly felt, greatly impacting already economically fragile populations.
However, solutions do exist:
Agroecology and agroforestry aretwofarmingmethodsthatallow the coexistence of the preservation ofliving organisms (and even the use of the services they provide) and theproduction of food, whileenabling farmers to diversify and secure their production. This, combined with afaireconomy, can greatly improvethe living conditions of farmers.
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That's why all three of us EBO students have decided to go and immerse ourselves in real field conditions next year, to realize the real ecosystemic and socio-economic issues at stake. All this while helping with our acquired knowledge and, of course, our "elbow grease" to carry out environmental and solidarity projects, with a view to exchanging sustainable technical and cultural knowledge between here and there.
The project will therefore run throughout the year with four different "NGOs", all working to improve local living conditions and solve environmental problems (setting up and managing experimental plots, biodiversity inventories...). The project will take place in India, Madagascar, Togo and Colombia, enabling us to discover the 3 different tropical blocks and the different technical and cultural approaches associated with each locality.
The project will be carried out in collaboration with the University of Montpellier's Universlacitéprogram, to enable exchanges between young people from the countries visited and young people from Montpellier.
On the project's return, several conferences will be organized, as well as photographic exhibitions of the journey.
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