TY - Type of reference TI - Trajectories of innovation in agriculture of conservation at Lake Alatra in Madagascar AU - Eric Penot AU - Valentin Fevre AU - Patricia Flodrops AB - 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. DO - 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2017.0111 JF - Technology and Innovation KW - Conservation Agriculture, innovation processes, farmers’ strategies, Alaotra lake, Madagascar, Agriculture de conservation, processus d’innovation, stratégies paysannes, lac Alaotra, Madagascar, L1 - https://www.openscience.fr/IMG/pdf/4penot-ok-isa-2.pdf LA - en PB - ISTE OpenScience DA - 2017/03/4 SN - 2399-8571 TT - Trajectoires d’innovation en agriculture de conservation au lac Alatra à Madagascar UR - https://www.openscience.fr/Trajectories-of-innovation-in-agriculture-of-conservation-at-Lake-Alatra-in IS - Issue 2 VL - 2 ER -