Assignation
- ES
- UMR Innovation
- Montpellier
- France
Discipline
- Agronomist (farm and territory management)
Address
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TA C-85 / 15
73 rue Jean-François Breton
34398 Montpellier Cedex 5
Tel/Fax/Email
- Telephone : +33 4 67 61 56 39
- Fax : +33 4 67 61 44 15
- Address Email : pierre-yves.le_gal@cirad.fr
Function
Researcher (PhD)Research Fields
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Management of agricultural production systems: analysis and modelling of farmers' technical decision-making processes at farm scale (crop-livestock, dairy, rice-based, sugarcane-based farming systems)
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Agro-food supply chain management: analysis and modelling of interactions between farmers and agro-industries regarding food processing plant supply
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Management of irrigation schemes: analysis and modelling of relations between farmers and management bodies regarding water management in collective irrigation schemes
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Support system for designing innovative production systems: design of discussion support systems for assisting stakeholders in evaluating ex-ante impacts of systemic innovations on the performances of their production systems
Research experience
My research works combines analytical studies on stakeholders' decision processes (farmers, agro-industries, irrigation scheme managers) producteurs, agro-industriels, gestionnaires de périmètres irrigués) with the design of discussion support systems to be transferred to consultants and advisers. These support systems include simulation tools addressing specific issues: redesign of mill supply management in the sugarcane industry (MAGI®, to be downloaded at http://agri-logistique.cirad.fr/ - Le Gal et al., 2008 ; Lejars et al., 2008), management of irrigation schemes (WaDI - de Nys et al., 2008), crop-livestock interactions in mixed farms (Clifs downloadable at the following address: https://doi.org/10.18167/DVN1/NZHWQ - Le Gal et al., 2022), redesign of horticultural farms (CoHort downloadable at the following address: https://www6.paca.inrae.fr/psh/Modeles-et-logiciels/Cohort - Pissonnier et al., 2017 & 2019). ). These tools are also used with crop scientists designing innovative cropping systems, in order to evaluate ex-ante the value of technical innovations for farm types or real farms.
Research locations
- Brazil: management of irrigation schemes, conservation agriculture, dairy production
- Madagascar & West Africa: crop-livestock relations in mixed farms
- Morroco, Peru : dairy production in irrigation scheme
- Tunisia : oasien farming systems and date supply chain
- South Africa & La Réunion : supply management of sugarcane mills
- Mali & Senegal : management of irrigation schemes
Lecturing activities
Associate Professor at Montpellier SupAgro. in charge of a 2-week session on "Quality management of agro-food supply areas"