@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2017.0111, 

TITLE={Trajectories of innovation in agriculture of conservation at Lake Alatra in Madagascar}, 
  
AUTHOR={Eric Penot, Valentin Fevre, Patricia Flodrops, }, 
	
JOURNAL={Technology and Innovation}, 
	
VOLUME={2}, 

NUMBER={Issue 2}, 
	
YEAR={2017}, 

URL={http://www.openscience.fr/Trajectories-of-innovation-in-agriculture-of-conservation-at-Lake-Alatra-in}, 
	
DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2017.0111}, 
	
ISSN={2399-8571}, 
	
ABSTRACT={Alaotra Lake area is one of Madagascar’s most important rice growing regions, with important soil and climatic constraints. Through sustainable agricultural development, the BV-lac project has disseminated techniques of conservation agriculture (CA), between 2003 to 2013. As defined by the FAO in 2008, CA has three principles: i) minimum soil disturbance, ii) soil protection by vegetation cover, iii) crop rotation and plant association, requiring a double paradigm shift on cropping pattern and on strategies. A survey conducted in 2013/2014 showed that during the project, farmers adapted CA techniques to their own constraints in a long learning process leading to a continuum of practices between conventional agriculture and CA through a recombination of knowledge.}}