The Corps des Ingénieurs des Ponts,des Eaux et des Forêts is a technical Grand Corps of the French State. Its members,called ingénieurs des ponts,des eaux et des forêts,are senior civil servants and top-level engineers,mainly employed by the French Ministry of Ecological Transition and by the French Ministry of Agriculture,but they can also work for every French Ministries,public establishments,or public compagnies. Thanks to its history and its selective recruitment policy,the Corps des IPEF enjoys considerable prestige within France's senior civil services,as the Corps des mines and the Corps de l'armement.
CGIAR is a global partnership that unites international organizations engaged in research about food security. CGIAR research aims to reduce rural poverty,increase food security,improve human health and nutrition,and sustainable management of natural resources.
The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) is a non-profit scientific research organization that conducts research on the use and management of forests with a focus on tropical forests in developing countries. CIFOR,which merged with World Agroforestry on Jan. 1,2019,is the forestry and agroforestry research center of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR),a network of 15 research centers around the world that focus on agricultural research for sustainable development,working closely with governments and other partners to help develop evidence-based solutions to problems related to sustainable agriculture and natural resource management.
Agricultural biodiversity or agrobiodiversity is a subset of general biodiversity pertaining to agriculture. It can be defined as "the variety and variability of animals,plants and micro-organisms at the genetic,species and ecosystem levels that sustain the ecosystem structures,functions and processes in and around production systems,and that provide food and non-food agricultural products.”It is managed by farmers,pastoralists,fishers and forest dwellers,agrobiodiversity provides stability,adaptability and resilience and constitutes a key element of the livelihood strategies of rural communities throughout the world. Agrobiodiversity is central to sustainable food systems and sustainable diets. The use of agricultural biodiversity can contribute to food security,nutrition security,and livelihood security,and it is critical for climate adaptation and climate mitigation.
ParisTech is a cluster that brings together 7 renowned grandes écoles based in Paris,France. It covers the whole spectrum of science,technology and management and has more than 12.000 students.
Bioversity International is the name of the research team and infrastructure which is now part of the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT. Both working within the CGIAR research partnership,in 2019 Bioversity International's research team joined forces with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture,becoming one research-for-development organization working to “deliver research-based solutions that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably transform food systems to improve people's lives".
Julia Marton-Lefèvre is a French - US environmentalist and academic. She studied history,ecology and environmental planning in the US and in France,and was born in Hungary.
Thierry de Montbrial is the executive chairman of the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri),which he founded in 1979. He is also the founder and chairman of the World Policy Conference (WPC),which he created in 2008. He has been a member of the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences since 1992. He is an honorary member of numerous foreign academies.
Institut Agro Montpellier is a French public institution devoted to higher education and research in Agriculture,Food and Environment. Montpellier SupAgro is widely open to international issues and partnerships,with specific focus and expertise on southern and Mediterranean areas. It trains students in most of the agronomy and life sciences fields. It is part of Agropolis Fondation. The Montpellier INRA research center is also located on la Gaillarde campus. It belongs to the Institut Agro,along with Institut Agro Rennes-Angers and Institut Agro Dijon.
Laurence Tubiana is a French economist,academic and diplomat. She served as France's Climate Change Ambassador and Special Representative for the 2015 COP21 Climate Change Conference in the Paris region,for which she became recognised as a key architect of the resulting Paris Agreement.
The School of Agricultural and Life Sciences is a French public and national Grande Ecole in agricultural and life sciences,funded by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and member of Toulouse Tech. The ENSAT is a school of the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (INPT),a university federating several schools dealing with engineering,agriculture and veterinary sciences,chemistry,meteorology.
UniverSud Paris was one of the PRES in France. It gathered 21 public universities,Grandes Écoles and National Research Center,covering nearly the whole spectrum of sciences,until its dissolution in 2014.
Paris-Saclay is a research-intensive and business cluster currently under construction in the south of Paris,France. It encompasses research facilities,two French major universities with higher education institutions and also research centers of private companies. In 2013,the Technology Review put Paris-Saclay in the top 8 world research clusters. In 2014,it comprised almost 15% of French scientific research capacity.
Lindiwe Sibanda Majele(born 1963) is a Zimbabwean professor,scientist,policy advocate and influencer on food systems. She currently serves as director and chair of the ARUA Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Food Systems (ARUA-SFS) at the University of Pretoria in Pretoria,South Africa as well as founder and managing director of Linds Agricultural Services Pvt Ltd. in Harare,Zimbabwe. She is currently a board member of Nestléwhere she is also a member of the Sustainability Committee.
UniLaSalle is one of the 210 French engineering schools authorized to award engineering degrees. It was created following the merger of ESITPA and LaSalle Beauvais. UniLaSalle is a private higher education establishment offering integrated degree programs. It has two campuses,one in Beauvais and the other in Rouen. It offers three- or five-year degree programs,including engineering degrees in the fields of agriculture,the food industry,food and health,environmental studies and geology. It also offers continuing education and short programs in these fields. It is a non-profit organization created under the 1901 Act. On July 7,2016,UniLaSalle was officially recognized as an EESPIG.
Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle is a French agricultural engineer. Ministerial Delegate to the Minister of Agriculture and Food since July 2018. Between 2013 and 2018 she was Under Secretary of State for the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
The Citizens Convention for Climate is a citizens' assembly held in 2019 and 2020 which discussed reducing France's carbon emissions by 40% from its 1990 levels in a spirit of social justice. It was initiated in response to the Yellow Vest protests to the fuel tax. The convention was modeled after a number of other deliberative experiments known as mini-publics. The members of the convention were 150 randomly selected citizens designed to be representative of the French public across six demographic dimensions:gender,age,socio-economic background,education level,location type,and province. The convention was assisted by a number of committees including the governance committee,a team of experts who provided organizational guidance and assistance,a guarantor college,which maintained the convention's independence,and a legal board. The members themselves divided into working groups on five issues within the topic of climate change:food,housing,employment,transportation,and consumption.
Ann Tutwiler is a Senior Fellow with Meridian Institute and serves as a Senior Advisor to the Food Forward Consortium and formerly was the senior advisor to the Just Rural Transition. She also chairs the Expert Review Committee for the Food and Agriculture Benchmark for the World Benchmarking Alliance. Previously,she was the Director General of Bioversity International from July 2013 to February 2019 and the first woman Deputy Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) from January 2011 to November 2012. In 2022,she has been awarded the John Knox Batten Teaching Fellowship in Public Policy at Davidson College in North Carolina where she taught two undergraduate classes in food systems transformation.
Céline Guivarc'h is a French climate scientist modelling the impact of climate change from a multidisciplinary perspective and how to limit it. She is a research director at École des Ponts ParisTech. She is a member of the French High Council on Climate and a lead author on the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.
Frank Ewert is a German agricultural scientist,Scientific Director of the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) and Professor of Crop Production at the University of Bonn.
