hello to all so today I’m going
take you to see a world almost unknown
I will take you to see what is
invisible to the naked eye and we will
see how we can use this world
invisible in the service of our
Agriculture
well before that I will tell you about
what binds us all here between all of us
we are our future and beyond
future what are the challenges that are going to be
to achieve during this century
the most important of them is going to be
the challenge of transition
food and our agricultural system
and yes in 2050
do you imagine we will be 9.6 billion
of humans on earth
it makes the world is the first time
that on such a short time
we have so many issues about the increase
agricultural yields
so it will have to be able to
produce more and it’s not just
produce more is the context that is
around and you’ll see the state it’s
complex and with multiple factors
that make this challenge a real break
head
we will not be able to increase the surfaces
agricultural
so we’ll have to produce more with the
same number or even fewer surfaces
agricultural
what gives us what to imagine in 1960 a
field a cultivated field of one hectare
could feed two people we were
then 1.3 billion humans on earth
2005 this same land had to feed
four people then there was
first human beings on earth
will always understand this same land
on 2050 will have to feed not two no
not four but six people a little
little heightened there so he’ll have to
increase this production by taking
has another challenge
a forecast that is no longer a
forecast a reality the change
global climate that affects
today some parts of the world
and an agriculture pact with a
heterogeneity of one-year returns
on the other who you imagine well is
a little complicated for the sectors
agricultural
coupled with it directly or not we have
a shortage of natural resources and
especially water which is a
key element in many itineraries
of culture that we have this problematic
we must therefore develop new
cultural routes that take in
account these considerations there then we’ll
add a little more parameters a
another challenge that of transition
environmental and ecological since
we have reduction goals
environmental impacts and
goals as they respond to a
Increasingly strong demand from you
all here me including consumers
who want to eat better than they want
more and more natural products
and with the least impact
environmental issues to name just one
example still in France we had by
example a plan the ecophyto plan that
aims is in the form of alleviating the
reduction of chemical inputs 25%
first and then 50% ambitious
beautiful project project so we increased
the use of chemical inputs between
2015 and 2016
in other words, a real failure of this
plan a failure of the instances
governments on this issue there
while you will have understood the fires
are rather green it is rather a
request he is a consumer be a
engine in that it is the cause of this
failure
it’s simply alternatives
today inefficient alternatives
that do not respond to the issues
farmers and
cultural routes to make
functional alternatives one has to take
account a reserve life reserve
still underrated who is life
microbial soil present in soils
a gram of forest we have more beings
alive as human beings on earth
while in a gram of a field
grown shame
10 power three micro organisms that
did any of the methods
until then we destroy this life
present in soils
today there is an issue a challenge
major for humanity to solve this
challenge to renovate this biodiversity
it is therefore necessary to set up
biological alternatives that take in
account and who uses this biodiversity
natural serving plants
it will thus be possible to increase the quality of
plants and increase their production
while having reduced our impacts
environmental
how to do that simply if I
and then say taking inspiration from what
exists by having by going to wear his
look at what we do not see
alternative
I present you one and I insist on
one you’ll see why we can
use and that’s what I develop
natural interactions between
plants and microorganisms since
the soil is not just a place of
support you will understand but a
place of life that acts on cultures
these mycorrhizal fungi are
able to interact with plants at
level of their roots and multiply
hang in there
a thousand times the exchange surface between
the plant and the soil
this immobile plant is then capable
to go draw nutrients
much further than they were
able the roots only slab is
hoarded not only that but these
mushrooms an ability to assimilate
nutrients that the plant alone does
can assimilate one solves so a double
challenge one is able through these
mycorhizes these mushrooms to increase
the acquisition of nutrients by
plants and therefore to have plants
better fed that develops better
but it’s not just that if you look
this network this mesh that is created around
roots
we have a physical barrier to
what bein of microorganisms that
contrary to what we think are
finally quite rare but are
pathogenic microorganisms
there we free ourselves so no
only fertilizers but also
use of certain pesticides
that we dump into the soil and that
found in groundwater
and pollute our soils is new this is
a real innovation based on
the increase of this biodiversity
natural and management of this
natural biodiversity and these are these
systems there and not the the idea of
replace a chemical molecule with a
biological molecule that will help us to
go on tomorrow’s agriculture it’s
much more complex than that it’s a
global change in
production and this change he can
not be alone in a corner or
in a laboratory all alone without having
seen a field of his life it’s impossible
these changes there they must be taken
by a consortium of all actors
agricultural sectors
industrial farmers institutes of
research technical institutes start-ups
consumers
all we have to co design together
these alternatives for it to be
tomorrow effective in conditions of
real life why the plan did Ecophyto
he failed because goal alternatives
current logic are 80% of the time
ineffective in real life conditions
it’s unacceptable today
only that but we have to propose
alternatives that is accepted
acceptable by the first users
farmers who must not
have new constraints but a
solution that fits perfectly into
their route and that allow them
to have sufficient returns and that
it’s also economically acceptable
for them it’s one of the keys to
solutions I insisted just now
about introducing yourself to one of
solutions because there is not a
solution to the agricultural transition that
would be too simple there are
solutions
we have to find solutions and not
a generic solution
we need solutions that adapt to
all the issues that fits
on a case by case basis
different culture and complexities
of each type of soil production and
of plants
yes
of work but it’s just like that in
working case by case we will arrive at
propose a global transition and
effective and this transition
I wanted to say she does not pass an actor
essential
the most essential actor of all my
speech he has always been there he is there
just under our feet is the soil
this soil that must have returned today
sustainable management
we mistreated him there certainly were
agricultural methods that have manhandled this
soil we saw it resulted in a loss of lives
in this soil but it’s far from being the
only the only cause activities
human in general when
even well tainted his soil there are the
human activities related to urbanization
and erosion that make today
this soil management is not sustainable
and causes serious problems
for our humanity take care of this
soil today is to preserve a
essential element to the survival of our
humanity
and it’s thanks to that by reappropriating
this soil and replenishing this life
in this soil that we can tomorrow be in
ability to feed 9.6 billion
of humans in a context of change
climate change and by reducing our
environmental impacts and I’m sure
after all this you will not look
never again in the same way nor your
plants or what’s happening under your
feet thank you
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[Music]
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take you to see a world almost unknown
I will take you to see what is
invisible to the naked eye and we will
see how we can use this world
invisible in the service of our
Agriculture
well before that I will tell you about
what binds us all here between all of us
we are our future and beyond
future what are the challenges that are going to be
to achieve during this century
the most important of them is going to be
the challenge of transition
food and our agricultural system
and yes in 2050
do you imagine we will be 9.6 billion
of humans on earth
it makes the world is the first time
that on such a short time
we have so many issues about the increase
agricultural yields
so it will have to be able to
produce more and it’s not just
produce more is the context that is
around and you’ll see the state it’s
complex and with multiple factors
that make this challenge a real break
head
we will not be able to increase the surfaces
agricultural
so we’ll have to produce more with the
same number or even fewer surfaces
agricultural
what gives us what to imagine in 1960 a
field a cultivated field of one hectare
could feed two people we were
then 1.3 billion humans on earth
2005 this same land had to feed
four people then there was
first human beings on earth
will always understand this same land
on 2050 will have to feed not two no
not four but six people a little
little heightened there so he’ll have to
increase this production by taking
has another challenge
a forecast that is no longer a
forecast a reality the change
global climate that affects
today some parts of the world
and an agriculture pact with a
heterogeneity of one-year returns
on the other who you imagine well is
a little complicated for the sectors
agricultural
coupled with it directly or not we have
a shortage of natural resources and
especially water which is a
key element in many itineraries
of culture that we have this problematic
we must therefore develop new
cultural routes that take in
account these considerations there then we’ll
add a little more parameters a
another challenge that of transition
environmental and ecological since
we have reduction goals
environmental impacts and
goals as they respond to a
Increasingly strong demand from you
all here me including consumers
who want to eat better than they want
more and more natural products
and with the least impact
environmental issues to name just one
example still in France we had by
example a plan the ecophyto plan that
aims is in the form of alleviating the
reduction of chemical inputs 25%
first and then 50% ambitious
beautiful project project so we increased
the use of chemical inputs between
2015 and 2016
in other words, a real failure of this
plan a failure of the instances
governments on this issue there
while you will have understood the fires
are rather green it is rather a
request he is a consumer be a
engine in that it is the cause of this
failure
it’s simply alternatives
today inefficient alternatives
that do not respond to the issues
farmers and
cultural routes to make
functional alternatives one has to take
account a reserve life reserve
still underrated who is life
microbial soil present in soils
a gram of forest we have more beings
alive as human beings on earth
while in a gram of a field
grown shame
10 power three micro organisms that
did any of the methods
until then we destroy this life
present in soils
today there is an issue a challenge
major for humanity to solve this
challenge to renovate this biodiversity
it is therefore necessary to set up
biological alternatives that take in
account and who uses this biodiversity
natural serving plants
it will thus be possible to increase the quality of
plants and increase their production
while having reduced our impacts
environmental
how to do that simply if I
and then say taking inspiration from what
exists by having by going to wear his
look at what we do not see
alternative
I present you one and I insist on
one you’ll see why we can
use and that’s what I develop
natural interactions between
plants and microorganisms since
the soil is not just a place of
support you will understand but a
place of life that acts on cultures
these mycorrhizal fungi are
able to interact with plants at
level of their roots and multiply
hang in there
a thousand times the exchange surface between
the plant and the soil
this immobile plant is then capable
to go draw nutrients
much further than they were
able the roots only slab is
hoarded not only that but these
mushrooms an ability to assimilate
nutrients that the plant alone does
can assimilate one solves so a double
challenge one is able through these
mycorhizes these mushrooms to increase
the acquisition of nutrients by
plants and therefore to have plants
better fed that develops better
but it’s not just that if you look
this network this mesh that is created around
roots
we have a physical barrier to
what bein of microorganisms that
contrary to what we think are
finally quite rare but are
pathogenic microorganisms
there we free ourselves so no
only fertilizers but also
use of certain pesticides
that we dump into the soil and that
found in groundwater
and pollute our soils is new this is
a real innovation based on
the increase of this biodiversity
natural and management of this
natural biodiversity and these are these
systems there and not the the idea of
replace a chemical molecule with a
biological molecule that will help us to
go on tomorrow’s agriculture it’s
much more complex than that it’s a
global change in
production and this change he can
not be alone in a corner or
in a laboratory all alone without having
seen a field of his life it’s impossible
these changes there they must be taken
by a consortium of all actors
agricultural sectors
industrial farmers institutes of
research technical institutes start-ups
consumers
all we have to co design together
these alternatives for it to be
tomorrow effective in conditions of
real life why the plan did Ecophyto
he failed because goal alternatives
current logic are 80% of the time
ineffective in real life conditions
it’s unacceptable today
only that but we have to propose
alternatives that is accepted
acceptable by the first users
farmers who must not
have new constraints but a
solution that fits perfectly into
their route and that allow them
to have sufficient returns and that
it’s also economically acceptable
for them it’s one of the keys to
solutions I insisted just now
about introducing yourself to one of
solutions because there is not a
solution to the agricultural transition that
would be too simple there are
solutions
we have to find solutions and not
a generic solution
we need solutions that adapt to
all the issues that fits
on a case by case basis
different culture and complexities
of each type of soil production and
of plants
yes
of work but it’s just like that in
working case by case we will arrive at
propose a global transition and
effective and this transition
I wanted to say she does not pass an actor
essential
the most essential actor of all my
speech he has always been there he is there
just under our feet is the soil
this soil that must have returned today
sustainable management
we mistreated him there certainly were
agricultural methods that have manhandled this
soil we saw it resulted in a loss of lives
in this soil but it’s far from being the
only the only cause activities
human in general when
even well tainted his soil there are the
human activities related to urbanization
and erosion that make today
this soil management is not sustainable
and causes serious problems
for our humanity take care of this
soil today is to preserve a
essential element to the survival of our
humanity
and it’s thanks to that by reappropriating
this soil and replenishing this life
in this soil that we can tomorrow be in
ability to feed 9.6 billion
of humans in a context of change
climate change and by reducing our
environmental impacts and I’m sure
after all this you will not look
never again in the same way nor your
plants or what’s happening under your
feet thank you
[Applause]
[Music]
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