Sustainability: new horizons for innovation studies
Channel: CIMMYT WebCast
Date: 09/02/2023

by

Frédéric Goulet 
Social scientist at CIRAD, France
CIMMYT visiting researcher 

Frédéric Goulet is an agricultural engineer and holds a PhD in sociology. Since 2008, he has been a social scientist at the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD, France). Between 2013 and 2018, he was a visiting researcher at INTA-Argentina, then a visiting professor at the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (2018-2022). Since September 2022, he is a visiting researcher at CIMMYT.

His research focuses on science, technology and innovations studies applied to the agricultural sector. More specifically, he is interested in the emergence of new technologies or the decline of problematic technologies, and in the roles played by public policies, agricultural research, input industries and farmers in these processes. He did his PhD on the development of conservation agriculture in France, analyzing the role of machinery suppliers in this dynamic, and the relations between Europe and South American countries like Brazil and Argentina. Recently, his work has focused on the emergence of microbiological alternatives to chemical pesticides and fertilizers. It analyses public policies, science-industry relationships and farmers' practices around these technologies. 

Since 2022, Frédéric Goulet is also the coordinator of the network Public Policies and Rural Development in Latin America (red PP-AL) https://www.pp-al.org/es, a network of scientists and institutions analyzing and acting on agricultural and rural development policies in Latin America.

For further information, please do not hesitate to contact Isabel Peña ( i.pena@cgiar.org )