No. 106 – march 2026 - SPICEE

No. 106 – march 2026 – Structuring and Generating Innovation in Integrated Crop and Livestock Systems

SPICEE - (Structurer et produire l'innovation dans les systèmes ayant des cultures et de l'élevage ensemble) - Structuring and Generating Innovation in Systems Combining Crop and Livestock Production – was accredited in 2020 for a period of five years.

Its aim is to identify general principles for the joint operation of animal and plant production at farm level, within a group of farms and across a region, as well as the conditions for the success of approaches to closing production cycles. To this end, methods and tools adapted to the diversity of forms and contexts in which crop-livestock systems exist must be developed. The integration of crop and livestock farming is seen as a lever to support the agroecological transition, taking into account the depletion of non-renewable resources in a context of climate change and increasing economic uncertainty. This issue covers: - The performance of mixed farming systems - Mixed farming systems in organic agriculture - Crop-livestock interactions at the regional level - Barriers, drivers and tools for implementing crop-livestock interactions The RMT involves the following partners: Idele (RMT lead partner), Acta (co-lead partner), INRAE (co-lead partner), Itavi, EPL Radingem, Montmorillon, Nevers, Trust'ing, CA Occitanie, Centre, Normandy, Brittany, Creuse, Saône-et-Loire, Unicor, Arvalis, Ifip, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, Craw, Agro-Transfert, UMR Metis, Agrofile, AgroCampus Ouest, ESA, EPL Fontaines, Quetigny, Coop de France, UTT, CIRAD, GIE Elevage Occitanie, AgroParisTech, Inter Afocg, Fermes de Figeac, CIIRPO, UniLaSalle, Itab, Adour-Garonne Water Agency, VetagroSup,

Summary

Thomas PUECH, Amandine DURPOIX, Bénédicte AUTRET, Laurent BRUNET, Damien FOISSY, Sara PARISOT & Pierre GUILLEMIN, 2026 - Transition through diversification of a mixed crop-livestock system: variability of technical performances and local conditions for emergence. 
Innovations Agronomiques 106, 1-12 
https://doi.org/10.17180/ciag-2026-vol106-art01-GB

Fabrice BELINE, Marylou BLONDEL, Sara LARCHER, Niels BIZE, Antoine BOUTIER, Aurélie WILFART, Fanny VERGELY & Souhil HARCHAOUI, 2026 - Towards nitrogen self-sufficiency in organic farming: a theoretical case study on a French territory
Innovations Agronomiques 106, 13-29
https://doi.org/10.17180/ciag-2026-vol106-art02-GB

Quentin BELLANGER, Fabrice BELINE, Aurélie WILFART, Fanny VERGELY, George MAILLARD, Yann EVENAT, Niels BIZE & Souhil HARCHAOUI, 2026 - Nitrogen circularity and energy investment of organic farms: insights from an onfarm analysis. 
Innovations Agronomiques 106, 30-41 
https://doi.org/10.17180/ciag-2026-vol106-art03-GB

Solène PISSONNIER, Myrto PARMANTIER, Julie MENADI & Marine SCHMITT, 2026 - The Feder’Acteurs project: choosing methodologies along the way to diagnose, design and evaluate crop-livestock interactions at the regional level: the example of Chaource PDO. 
Innovations Agronomiques 106, 42-55
https://doi.org/10.17180/ciag-2026-vol106-art04-GB

Myrto PARMANTIER, Marc MORAINE, Rémy BALLOT & Lorène PROST, 2026 - Co-design of crop-livestock integration scenarios for pesticide reduction at territory level. 
Innovations Agronomiques 106, 56-69 
https://doi.org/10.17180/ciag-2026-vol106-art05-GB

Tiago TEIXEIRA DA SILVA SIQUEIRA, Clément JACQUET, Kassi Ange Emmanuel KOUADIO & Jean-Philippe CHOISIS, 2026 - Actors, representations and strategies in transitions towards a circular
bioeconomy in the agrifood system of Reunion Island. 
nnovations Agronomiques 106, 70-80 
https://doi.org/10.17180/ciag-2026-vol106-art06-GB

Audrey FANCHONE, Damaris STERLING, Jean-Philippe CHOISIS & Jean-Marc MEYNARD, 2026 - Socio-technical lock-ins to crop-livestock integration: Case study in Guadeloupe.
Innovations Agronomiques 106, 81-91
https://doi.org/10.17180/ciag-2026-vol106-art07-GB

Nicolas DEVILLERS, Sabine CONTE, Stéphanie DURAND, Marie-Noëlle THIVIERGE, Thomas PUECH & Isabelle BREUNE, 2026 - Design of a Circular, Agroecological, Integrated Crop–Livestock System: the
Sherbrooke Agroecological Platform (Quebec). 
Innovations Agronomiques 106, 92-106 
https://doi.org/10.17180/ciag-2026-vol106-art08-GB