MASC, a model to assess the sustainability of cropping systems: Taking advantage of feedback from first users

Damien Craheix (1) , Frédérique Angevin (2) , Jacques-Eric Bergez (3) , Christian C. Bockstaller (4) , Bruno B. Colomb (3) , Laurence L. Guichard (1) , Raymond R. Reau (1) , Thierry Doré (1)

1 Agronomie
2 ECO-INNOV - Unité Impacts Ecologiques des Innovations en Production Végétale
3 AGIR - AGroécologie, Innovations, teRritoires
4 LAE-Colmar - Laboratoire Agronomie et Environnement - Antenne Colmar

The first version of MASC model (for Multi-attribute Assessment of the Sustainability of Cropping Systems) has been designed initially to select newly designed Cropping Systems (CS) before testing them in field trials (Sadok et al., 2009). Different users in the field of agriculture tested MASC in various contexts and commented its use and its usefulness. We recorded comments from these users in order to gain greater insight of their requested needs and in order to improve the model.

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]

Damien Craheix, Frédérique Angevin, Jacques-Eric Bergez, Christian C. Bockstaller, Bruno B. Colomb, et al.. MASC, a model to assess the sustainability of cropping systems: Taking advantage of feedback from first users. 12th congress of the European Society for Agronomy, Aug 2012, Helsinki, Finland. 2012. ⟨hal-01359790⟩