📢 NEW TRAINING OPPORTUNITY: Modelling the Agroecological Transition of Your Territory by MAELAB Maela Roudaut

📢 NEW TRAINING OPPORTUNITY: Modelling the Agroecological Transition of Your Territory by MAELAB

Description MAELAB is organizing a training course titled “Thinking and Simulating the Agroecological Transition of Your Territory with the MAELIA Platform”
🗓️ June 23–25, 📍Colmar (INRAE Center)

🎯 The objective: to enable participants to understand the challenges of a territorial approach to agroecological transition and its assessment using the MAELIA platform.

📊 By the end of the training, participants will be able to identify relevant datasets, modify input data to build scenarios, compare scenarios, interpret platform outputs, and assess relevant action levers at the territorial scale.

🌍Curretly delivered in French and in-person (Colmar, FRANCE), MAELAB is actively considering the development of English-language versions adapted to other regional and institutional contexts. They are also open to engaging in international collaborations to further scale up this type of capacity-building initiative.

👉 Registration form available: https://lnkd.in/exFH4FWE

And for more information: www.maelab.fr/formation

Organiser

Etienne Audrey

Event

Part of a larger event

Participants CopSyS

Start of the eventStart of the eventStart of the event 23.06.2026

End of the event 25.06.2026

Meeting place In a physical location

Adress Centre INRAE

Postal Code 68000

City Colmar

Country France

Url link to working document https://www.maelab.fr/formation

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]]> Wed, 06 May 2026 15:50:56 +0200 CGIAR-France Workshop_Systems Science for agri-food systems transformation Maela Roudaut

CGIAR-France Workshop_Systems Science for agri-food systems transformation

Description 📅 Save the Date: CGIAR-France Collaboration Workshop in Nairobi

We are excited to announce a high-level scientific workshop organized by the CGIAR-France (CGIAR-FRO) teams.
Join us on May 13, 2026, in Nairobi, Kenya!
This event is held on the sidelines of the Africa Forward Summit (May 11–12, 2026) and focuses on consolidating scientific cooperation around systemic innovation

Event Details:
📍 Location: Nairobi, Kenya (or remotely).
🗓️ Date: May 13, 2026;14.00-16.00 pm EAT
🔬 Main Topic: Systems Science for agri-food systems transformation
🔗 Detailed Program:https://system-s.org/?WorkshopCGIAR-franceKenya

💡 Why Attend?
This workshop is a key milestone in the 2026-2028 Action Plan for France-CGIAR relations
It offers a unique platform to:
📊 Discover the latest CGIAR-FRANCE Collaboration Mapping
🔄 Foster reflection on systemic innovation at the crossroads of farms, landscapes, and value chains
🔍 Identify case studies and specific countries of interest for future research and funding

📝 Program Highlights
"Sharing and strengthening capacities for systemic innovation"
Part 1: Insights from the CapSha Accelerator, Sustainable Farming Science Program, and the CopSyS community of practice
.
Part 2: Interactive discussion on country case studies and potential links between science programs
.
Part 3: Forming working groups to develop Concept Notes for project submissions, specifically targeting EU funding

🎙️ Featured Speakers & Organizers

Charles Kleinermann (CGIAR, CapSha Director)
Frank Rasche (CGIAR-IITA, Sustainable Farming SP)
Marc Corbeels (CIRAD, AIDA Research Unit)
Jacques Wery (L’Institut Agro and CopSyS)

🎯 Our Goal: Moving Toward Systemic Impact
We aim to create a dedicated working group to prepare project submissions with African NARS (National Agricultural Research Systems) and universities
Our priority is sharing research capacities and technical support to transform agri-food systems

Join us in Nairobi to shape the future of systemic innovation! 🤝✨

Organiser

Kleinermann Charles

Event

Part of a larger event

Participants CopSyS

Start of the eventStart of the eventStart of the event 13.05.2026 - 14:00

End of the event 13.05.2026 - 16:00

Meeting place Hybrid

Adress ILRI Campus

City Nairobi

Country Kenya

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]]> Tue, 05 May 2026 11:24:47 +0200 6th Global Food Security Conference_Zero hunger and resilient food systems in an uncertain world Maela Roudaut

6th Global Food Security Conference_Zero hunger and resilient food systems in an uncertain world

Description 🌍 Event Overview

For its 6th edition, the Global Food Security Conference will take place in Wageningen at Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands, from 19–22 April 2027.

This international event brings together scientists, policymakers, and food system actors to explore cutting-edge research and practical solutions for global food and nutrition security. With a strong focus on resilience, sustainability, and agency, the conference fosters dialogue across disciplines and sectors to accelerate progress toward zero hunger.

🧩 Key Themes

Through six interconnected themes, the conference explores the transformation of food systems:

Harnessing opportunities – leveraging innovation, digital tools, and finance to drive change
Safeguarding diversity – promoting biodiversity, diverse diets, and resilient value chains
Balancing scales – connecting local and global dynamics for effective action
Stabilizing food systems – building resilience to climate and geopolitical shocks
Strengthening agency – empowering people to shape food systems and claim their right to food
Reflective science – advancing inclusive, critical, and impactful research

👉 For more information, visit: https://www.globalfoodsecurityconference.com/

Event

Part of a larger event

Participants CopSyS

Start of the eventStart of the eventStart of the event 19.04.2027

End of the event 22.04.2027

Meeting place In a physical location

City Wageningen

Country Pays-Bas

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]]> Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:01:33 +0200 16th IFSA (International Farming Systems Association) Congress - FRANCE Maela Roudaut

16th IFSA (International Farming Systems Association) Congress - FRANCE

Description 🌱 16th IFSA (International Farming Systems Association) Congress – Join the conversation on agricultural systems!

Come discover, discuss, and exchange ideas on agricultural systems at the 16th IFSA Congress — a key event bringing together researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders from around the world.

📍 Where?
In Montpellier (FRANCE)

📅 When?
June 29 - July 3 2026

🌍 What is IFSA?
The International Farming Systems Association (IFSA) is a global network dedicated to advancing research and knowledge on farming systems, with a strong focus on sustainability, innovation, and real-world impact. The European IFSA conferences are biennial events organized in rotation by European universities and research institutes involved in farming systems research and extension.

🗓️ On the agenda
Exploring transformative changes in agricultural systems by connecting landscapes, communities, capacity building approaches, and the interlinkages between food production, consumption, and resource management.
👉 Click here to discover the full program and speakers.

✍️ How to participate?
Registrate here: https://ifsa2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/14

Organiser

Belhouchette Hatem

Event

Part of a larger event

Participants CopSyS

Start of the eventStart of the eventStart of the event 29.06.2026

End of the event 03.07.2026

Meeting place In a physical location

Postal Code 34000

City Montpellier

Country France

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]]> Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:08:23 +0200 Second CopSyS Workshop - Montpellier Maela Roudaut

Second CopSyS Workshop - Montpellier

Description https://system-s.org/?WorkshopFrance

Organiser

WERY Jacques

Event

Specific of the community

Participants CopSyS

Start of the eventStart of the eventStart of the event 29.06.2026

End of the event 29.06.2026

Meeting place In a physical location

Postal Code 34000

City Montpellier

Country France

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:40:10 +0100 ISG meeting March 2026 Maela Roudaut

ISG meeting March 2026

Description https://system-s.org/?IsgmeetingMarch2026

Organiser

WERY Jacques

Event

Past event

Participants ISG

Start of the eventStart of the eventStart of the event 17.03.2026 - 16:00

End of the event 17.03.2026 - 17:00

Meeting place Video conferencing

URL link for video conferencing

https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/37646397482577?p=8WKATNqy0AdmDjb6Io

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:34:43 +0100 Webinar : Transforming human activity systems: towards an agriculture for improving human-biosphere relations

Webinar : Transforming human activity systems: towards an agriculture for improving human-biosphere relations

Description Join the first ELLS SA SYSTEM Webinar : Transforming human activity systems: towards an agriculture for improving human-biosphere relations
During this webinar hosted by SLU Global and ELLS, Professor Emeritus Ray Ison will talk about how we can transform human activity systems towards a more improved human-biosphere agriculture.
📍 Online webinar | 🗓 17 March, 2026 (10.00 to 11.30 am (CET)).

Participation is free of charge but you need to register with the link below.
https://www.slu.se/en/calendar/2026/03/ray-ison/

Webinar abstract

Research is a practice that can be systematic, systemic or both. Systematic practice is essentially linear and associated with simple cause and effect. In contrast systemic practice is relational and encompasses feedback dynamics; it is thus circular, recursive and adapted to context. These two concepts (systemic/systematic) can be understood as a self-negating, either/or, pair (a dualism) or as modes of praxis that can form a unity, a whole, by epistemologically responsible practitioners (i.e., a duality). Claims for research practice are that it can provide new understandings and (situated?) improvements, though all too often this is expressed as the production of ‘new knowledge’ in a simplistic manifestation of the linear model of knowledge production, rather than embodied enactment of knowing. Drawing on his own agricultural education, his research and ‘teaching’ practice and his turn to Systems scholarship: social learning; systemic co-inquiry; systemic governance and the design of learning systems, Ray will explore the constraints to effective situational improvement that have come through the institutionalisation of the linear model of knowledge production, scholarship which began with the publication of:
Russell, D.B., Ison, R.L., Gamble, D.R. & Williams, R.K. (1989) A Critical Review of Rural Extension Theory and Practice. Australian Wool Corporation/ University of Western Sydney (Hawkesbury). 67pp.
He will finish with some personal reflections on a 55 year ‘career’ within (or near) the domain of agriculture (understood as one of the main domains in which human-biosphere relations are manifest through the enactment of ‘human activity systems’ that can be the product of systemic (co)design).

Organiser

Descheemaeker Katrien

Event

Part of a larger event

Participants CopSyS

Start of the eventStart of the eventStart of the event 17.03.2026 - 10:00

End of the event 17.03.2026 - 11:30

Meeting place Video conferencing

URL link for video conferencing

https://www.slu.se/en/calendar/2026/03/ray-ison/

Country Pays-Bas

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]]> Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:37:53 +0100 Farming Systems and Rural Livelihoods Analysis course in Malawi Maela Roudaut

Farming Systems and Rural Livelihoods Analysis course in Malawi

Description Join the International Post Graduate Course: Farming Systems and Rural Livelihoods Analysis – Sustainable Farming in Multifunctional Landscapes in📍 Kasungu, Malawi | 🗓 22 March – 2 April 2026.

This two-week intensive course is ideal for PhD students and post-docs of Wageningen University, as well as (junior) staff of national agricultural research institutes and institutes of the CGIAR, working on and within (smallholder) production systems, rural livelihoods, and the effects of global change at the regional, national and local level.
Why join?

💡 Gain hands-on experience with mixed methods in a smallholder context
🧑‍🌾 Work directly with farmers and local stakeholders
📅 Learn to link field data with secondary sources for systems analysis
🗺️ Engage with an international network of peers and CGIAR scientists

👉 Interested? Check out the link: https://lnkd.in/eMgvgrPb

Organiser

Descheemaeker Katrien

Event

Part of a larger event

Participants CopSyS

Start of the eventStart of the eventStart of the event 22.03.2026

End of the event 02.04.2026

Meeting place In a physical location

Country Malawi

Url link to working document https://www.pe-rc.nl/courses-retreats/farming-systems-and-rural-livelihoods-analysis

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]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:07:28 +0100 Modelling the Agroecological Transition of Your Territory by MAELAB Maela Roudaut

Modelling the Agroecological Transition of Your Territory by MAELAB

💡 Gain hands-on experience with mixed methods in a smallholder context
🧑‍🌾 Work directly with farmers and local stakeholders
📅 Learn to link field data with secondary sources for systems analysis
🗺️ Engage with an international network of peers and CGIAR scientists

👉 Interested? Check out the link: https://lnkd.in/eMgvgrPb

Organiser

Descheemaeker Katrien

Event

Part of a larger event

Participants CopSyS

Start of the eventStart of the eventStart of the event 22.03.2026

End of the event 02.04.2026

Meeting place In a physical location

Country Malawi

Url link to working document https://www.pe-rc.nl/courses-retreats/farming-systems-and-rural-livelihoods-analysis

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]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:07:28 +0100 Spécial Session on System Science during FSD8

Spécial Session on System Science during FSD8

Description

To know more about this event

This event has ended.
You can view the programme and presentations, which are archived :
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CopSyS is organising a spécial session to discuss system science and present CopSyS during the 8th Farming Systems Design conference.
This event will be an opportunity to officialy launch the system-s collaborative platform of CopSyS.

Organiser

Event

Part of a larger event

Participants CopSyS

Start of the eventStart of the eventStart of the event 27.08.2025 - 10:30

End of the event 27.08.2025 - 12:30

Meeting place In a physical location

URL link for video conferencing

https://fsd8-2025.symposium.inrae.fr/

Adress Campus Agro Paris-Saclay, 22 place de l’Agronomie,

Postal Code 91120

City Palaiseau

Country France

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