# Understanding and supporting a territory's transition towards zero pesticide use: the case of the western plain of Montpellier. Co-designing agrifood systems across scales: methods and tools for multi-actor approaches

Myrto Parmantier, Marc Moraine, Lorène Prost

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Myrto Parmantier, Marc Moraine, Lorène Prost. Understanding and supporting a territory's transition towards zero pesticide use: the case of the western plain of Montpellier. Co-designing agrifood systems across scales: methods and tools for multi-actor approaches. 8. International Farming System Design Conference, Aug 2025, Palaiseau, France. pp.267-269. [hal-05238188](https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-05238188v1)

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Submitted on 3 Sep 2025

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8th International Farming System Design Conference
Palaiseau – 25-29 August 2025

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Agricultural systems
by design

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UNDERSTANDING AND SUPPORTING A TERRITORY'S
TRANSITION TOWARDS ZERO PESTICIDE USE: THE
CASE OF THE WESTERN PLAIN OF MONTELLIER

Myrto PARMANTIER¹, Marc MORAINE¹, Lorène PROST²

¹UMR Innovation, INRAE, Montpellier (France)

²UMR SADAPT, INRAE, Saclay (France)

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RÉPUBLIQUE
FRANÇAISE

Liberté
Égalité
Fraternité

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INRAE

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How to caracterize and support the transition of a territory towards zero pesticide use while taking into account local challenges and stakeholders ?

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Benoit et al., 2012

**Collective action**

Amblard et al., 2018

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Farmers

Cooperatives

Nature conservation

Counsellors

**Stakeholders**

Public actors

Leading
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Western Plain of Montpellier

Landscape

Contrasted visions and strategies
for pesticide reduction

Stakeholders

Towards collective action for the reduction of pesticide use on the Western Plain of Montpellier
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Towards collective action for the reduction of pesticide use on the Western Plain of Montpellier
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Step 1

How do individual farming systems evolve in the scenarios ?

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Step 1

How do individual farming systems evolve in the scenarios ?

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Step 1

How do individual farming
systems evolve in the scenarios ?

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Step 2

A board to discuss evolutions with farmers and counsellors

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Step 1

How do individual farming
systems evolve in the scenarios ?

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Step 2

A board to discuss evolutions with farmers and counsellors

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The farmer expresses their
transition objectives based on the
scenarios
* A multi-actor approach encompassing both organizational and technical dimensions of pesticide reduction

* An iterative process (i) between research and stakeholders and (ii) between operational/decision levels

* Still needing more iterations...

* But that created spaces for the development of collective action and the identification of coordinated levers !

**But to what extent can this approach really lead to action implementation ? What would be needed to improve it ?**

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