Pierre M. STASSART Université de Liège Liège University Faculté des Sciences School of Sciences Département des Sciences et Gestion de l’Environnement Department of Environmental Science and Management Unité SEED (Prof. M. Mormont) SEED Unit (Prof. M. Mormont) Particulars Last name: Stassart First name: Pierre Marie Born in Genval (Belgium), January 9, 1961 Married to Myriam Scholtès (Physician) Four children Higher education 1983: Agricultural Engineer, UCL, Louvain La Neuve (Belgium). 1985: Certificate in tropical livestock production and health, Institute of Tropical Disease, Antwerp (Belgium) 2002: PhD in Environmental Science, FUL, Arlon (Belgium), 2002. Teaching activities Since 2007 Associate Professor at Université de Liège (ULg). ENVT0845 Evaluation tools of environment ENVT0863-4 Actuality questions of sustainable development ENVT0863-1 Field work ENVT0864 Introduction to Sustainable Development GEST1074 Transition Managment Since 2006 Guest Professor Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) BRAI2206 Socio-economy of Food systems Since 2009, invited professor in the EU Master Agroecology, ISARA (France), UMB (Norway) Workshop on Agroecology of Food systems and Transition 2007 Invited researcher, University California, Santa Cruz, Dep. Environmental Sciences, September December 2007, Prof. D Goodman 2008 Invited researcher at Newcastle University, DeP. Rural Economy, july 2008, Prof. N. Ward Area of research Key words : Transition Management towards sustainable development; Agroecology of food systems - Relationships between agriculture, environment, and "territorialisation" process - Relationship between animals – breeding –breeders. Sustainable development following the Bruntland report, appeared like a new collective horizon of reference. If one wants to exceed the consensual character of his quasi ritual invocation, it is necessary to give him contents, and in particular to make a scientific project of it. It is it to what I stick on a certain number of grounds. Sustainable development at first sight introduces new criteria of evaluation of the projects, policies and technologies. It is a first level, very little discriminant, taking into account the multiplicity of possible interpretations, of evaluation scales of application fields. On a second level, more relevant, sustainable development obliges to integrate various disciplines and could constitute a new discipline for this reason, - sciences of sustainable development -, it with what a double training in agronomy and social sciences prepares me. In particular, the food systems are thus emerging like new objects of research, different from the agrarian or agro-alimentary systems by the fact that they take into account social and cultural dimensions. This prospect is that of a science which is neither fundamental, nor applied, but integrative. But this scientific effort of integration still opens on a third level which is that of “how” to do research, to take into account various dimensions supposes an interaction with the recipients, in particular on the two levels which are the formulation of the questions of research and the discussion of the results. Sustainable development is thus a trajectory and an evolution more than one definition of criteria and standards. It is then a question of developing new methods of research, including the researcher and the actors in the process, reason for which I fall under a theory of the “transition” (Anglo-Saxon school of Management) and of research intervention (school of French management). This wire red of “Transition”, that one could also describe as “sciences and management of possible” which crosses my research and questions the bond between management and production of knowledge of the environment, according to very diversified methods' question. Sustainable development refers to the question of the transition of and relationships between action and knowledge. How do we characterize development pathways, their abilities to learn, or, on the contrary, their degrees of irreversibility? What new forms of organization and knowledge generation are arising with a view to action that leads to greater sustainability? Scientific activities 2.1 CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AEEN (2010- 2012): : AgroEcology European Networks (coordinator). This encompass the building of a European interdisciplinary network around agroecology, annual European workshop around the potential of agroecology for the environmental transition of agriculture, organisation of an international summer school on agroecology – Participation to an international workshop on the social movement and agroecology. Partner: SAD, INRA SAD, -Ecodev S Bellon, UCLouvain Ph. Baret. O2LA (2011-2014): Organisms and Organisation Locally Adapted : how the local management of animal and vegetal genetics resources allow the development of breed that valorise the environmental, economic, social and cultural context. The research project aims to analyse and give support to agriculture dynamics that try to better articulate farmers practices with the specificities of rural territories. This international project, is an interdisciplinary research with INRA SAD Corte, Agroparitech, Toulouse University, Liège University and Louvain Catholic University. Funding: National Agency for Research (France), program « SYSTERRA Programme Ecosystèmes, territoires, ressources vivantes et agricultures » DODDE (2008-2011) : Development of tOols for Diagnostic of DurablE Stock farming. Development of sustainability of stock farming leads to extensification and systematic pasture. Systematic pasture increase the exposition of cattle to lung and stomacal parasites and the use of chemical medicine to solve this. Chemical residues of such medicine are found in the trophic chain and eventually affect protected species. The re-naturalisation of the stock farming involve the management of complex systems that rest on heterogeneous knowledge’s. Design of such research involves cooperation between practitioners and researchers and interdisciplinary research. Cooperation: Veterinary Faculty Liège University, Louvain Catholic University, Bioforum. Funding: Walloon Regio, Agriculture General Direction, Grant, AM 11 décembre 2008. BIOETHA (2008-2012) : Prospective on Territories and Biofuel in Walloon Regio. Funding: Walloon Center for Agriculture Research. 2.2 Completed research projects 2005-08, Collectifs de consommateurs, questionnement social et consommation durable (Consumers’ groups, social questioning, and sustainable development). CNRS (CS0), Oxford University, INRA (Ecodev). Funding: French Agriculture and Sustainable Development Program (ADD) Financement ANR. 2005-08, La production de viande bovine en agriculture biologique, au croisement des attentes des producteurs, et du cahier des charges, des distributeurs et des consommateurs (The production of veef and veal in organic agriculture at the intersection of producers’ expectations, specifications, distributors, and consumers): CRA-W, ULG (Veterinary School), UCL (Bioengineering School). Funding: Wallon Region, Agriculture DG. 2005-08, Produire vendre et consommer: attachement à la nature et développement durable (Producing, selling, and consuming: attachment to nature and sustainable development): CNRS (CSO, S Dubuisson), INRA Ecodev Avignon. Financement: Ministère délégué à la Recherche (F) 2004-07, “Gestion du milieu naturel et de l’espace rural” (Managing natural and rural areas). Parteners: Chambers of agriculture (FR), animal husbandry institute (FR), and Luxembourg Herdbook Federation (GDL). Interreg III A Wallorlux Program, FEDER-WR-Agriculture DG. 2002-06, Comment l’agriculture biologique contribue-t-elle aux modes de production et de consommation durables, (How does organic agriculture contribute to sustainable production and consumptionpatterns?), Coordinator. Partners: Walloon Agricutulral Research Center (CRA-W) and Ghent University. Belgian Program of Support for Sustainable Development (PADDII), SPF. 2004-06, Construction d’un forum sur le bien-être animal, partenaires (Building an animal welfare forum): FUSAgx (Prof. Théwis), CRA-W (N. Bartiaux) and CRA-W Agrarian Systems (D. Stilmant), coordinator. Program: Fondation Roi Baudouin: Alimenter le dialogue (“Fueling dialog”). 1996-2000: Action collective et filières agroalimentaires alternatives (Collective action and alternative agri-food industries) (SSTC project, P. Stassart, E. Collet, & M. Mormont) 1997-98: Normes et Agriculture durable. (Standards and sustainable agriculture) (Projet SSTC, P. Stassart et M. Mormont) 2.3 International scientific networks AE ISS : AgroEcology International Summer School: Scientific committee: Stassart P.M. (coordinator), Baret Ph. (UCLouvain), Bellon S (INRA-SAD), Hazard, L. (Toulouse University), Léger F. (Agroparitech), Leiblein, G. (UMB, Norway), www.agroecology.eu O2LA: Systerra Program : Vernet E (Agroparitech), Casabianca, F. (INRA Corte), Steyaert P. (Sens), Labatut, S (INRA Toulouse) Prof. Sarah Whatmore, Director of the International Graduate School at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment/School of Geography and the Environment. http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/swhatmore.html French Agriculture and Sustainable Development Program (INRA and ANR). Collaboration with INRA and CNRS, S. Dubuisson Quellier, C. Lamine , C. Deverre. http://www.inra.fr/les_partenariats/programmes_anr/agriculture_et_developpement_durable LEARNing Network: Learning in European Agricultural and Rural Networks: institutions, network and governance, action shared-COST RTD (2002-06), www.inra.fr/learning (B. Hubert) 2.4 Expertise 2007-2010 Expertise for evaluation European Union, 7th Framework Programme 2006-2009 At the request of Oxford University: Expert for the project “Knowledge controversies in rural land management: science, democracy and expertise”, ESCR Programme: The Rural Economy and Land Use Programme 2006 (RELU). 2003-2006 At the request of the Walloon Region’s Government: Scientific member of the Walloon Agency for Promoting Quality Agriculture’s (AWAQ-W) Steering Committee. 2002-2003 At the request of the Belgian Federal Government: Scientific expert on organic agriculture with the FAO. 2003-2006 At the request of the Organic Agriculture Board: Member of the Organic Agriculture Board and member of Bioforum’s (federation of organic agriculture operators) 2.5 Peer Review  Environment and Planning A (Bristol University, UK) Natures Sciences et Sociétés ( EDPSciences, Paris) Economie Rurale Journal of Sociology of Food and Agriculture Publications 3.1 Peers reviewed papers Bell, M. and P. M. Stassart, M. (forthcoming). Editors Special issue : "Subjecting the Objective: Participation, Sustainability, and Agri-food Research practices ". Journal of Rural Studies. Stassart, P., M., V. Mathieu, et al. (submitted). "Film making : a reflexive audiovisual methodology on What can be said how can be said ? ." Journal of Rural Studies. Stassart, P.M., Dupuis, M and S. Dubuisson (forthcoming). Editors Special issue "How far alternative agrifood systems are sustainable"." Sociologia Ruralis. Stassart, P. M.(submitted). "The problem of the consumers may be the solution. Special issue on "How far alternative agrifood systems are sustainable?"." Sociologia Ruralis, . Stassart, P. M.(2009). Agroecology and the emergence of "Publics" XXIII ESRS , re-inventing the rural: between the natural and the social, WG 47 "Inventing sustainable agriculture" Vasaa: 15 p. . Stassart, P., M. and D. Jamar (2009). "Agriculture Biologique et Verrouillage des Système de connaissances. Conventionalisation des Filières Agroalimentaires Bio." Innovation Agronomique (4): 313-328. Stassart, P., Mormont, M., et Jamar, D. (2008). « Recherche Intervention pour la Transition vers le Développement Durable ». Economie Rurale 306, 8-22. Stassart, P. et Jamar, D. (2008). Steak up to the horns. Conventionalisation of Organic breeding, knowledge's lock-in the agrifood chain . Special issue Shifting Agrifood Systems, GeoJournal.73 (1): 31-44 Stassart, P., M. Mormont, D. Jamar, D. Stilmant, J. Aerstens and G. Van Huylenbroeock (2007). How can organic farming contribute to sustainable production and consumption patterns. Brussel, Belgian Science Policy. Stassart, P., Jamar, D. (2005) Equiper des filières durables ? L’élevage Bio en Belgique. Natures Sciences et Sociétés, 13(4), 413-420. Stassart, P. (2005) Construction d’un marché alternatif de viande bovine fermière. Economie Rurale, 286-287, 28-43, Paris. Stassart, P. & Whatmore, S. (2003), "Metabolizing risk: food scares and the un/re-making of Belgian beef." Environment and Planning A 35(3), 449-462. Whatmore, S., Stassart, P. and Renting, H. (2003), Special issue on alternative agrifood networks, Environment and Planning A, 35 (3) Stassart, P. (1998), “Histoire de fermiers ou de clochers? Les boerenmarkten en Flandre. Environnement qui participe?” Société et Environnement N° 21, FUL Arlon, 99-116. Stassart, P. & Grégoire-Wibo, C., 1983. Influence du travail du sol sur les populations de carabides en grande culture, resultats preliminaires. Med. Fac. Landbouww. Rijksuniv. Gent 48 2, pp. 465–474. 3.2 Invitation in International Conference Guest speaker at the Belgium Science Academy, Collège de Belgique Agroécologie: Une approche interdisciplinaire pour les agricultures en transition. Baret, P. V., P. M. Stassart, M. Visser in La terre, son climat, ses habitants, Namur, 11 mars 2010. Belgium King delegation in Estonia 10-12 june 2008 : Participation as academic expert to the State visite with the chairman of the 7 belgium univeristies . Guest Speaker at the Academic Forum: Beyond Ecological Resources Managment , How to know sustainable development ? Stassart P.M., Talin University, Talin, Wednesday 11 June 2008. Guest Speaker at the National Conference of DynaBio : Conventionalisation de l'agriculture biologique, systèmes de connaissances et verrouillage dans les filières agroalimentaires : Les recherches en agriculture biologique : de l’étude des verrous techniques à la conception de modèles de développement”, Stassart P.M., Montpellier, 19-20 mai 2008. Guest Speaker at the Journées d’échange scientifique organisées par ADD : « La prise en compte des acteurs et de leurs représentations dans le developpement durable », Quelles postures de recherche pour traiter du développement durable, Stassart P.M., Montpellier les 26 et 27 Juin 2007. 3.3 Books Stassart, P. (2003) Produits fermiers, entre qualification et identité. Coll. Ecopolis, Peter Lang, Brussels, 424 p. Stassart, P. (Ed.) (1999) Du savoir aux saveurs, 101 chemins pour une alimentation de qualité, Fondation Universitaire Luxembourgeoise, Vredeseilanden-Coopibo, Arlon-Leuven, 142 p. (French & Dutch version) 3.4 Chapters in books Mathieu, V. and P. Stassart, M. (2009) Eleveur autrement? Contribution d'une méthode audiovisuelle réflexive à l'explicitation d'un mode d'existence. Pp. 81-86 in E. Corine and L. Guy eds., Filmer le travail, films et travail (Aix en Provence: Publication de l'Université de provence) Stassart, P. and M. Mormont (2008). Recherche Intervention en Développement Durable, Ethique et Méthode. La recherche-intervention peut-elle être socialement responsable? F. Pichault, O. Lisein, G. Rondeaux and V. Xhauflair. Paris, Vuibert: 103-119. Mougenot, C. Stassart, P. (2008) « Les objets éphémères du développement durable » in Mélard, F., (éd.) Objets intermédiaires et problématiques environnementales. Bruxelles, Presse Interuniversitaires Européennes : 73-96. Stassart, P. (2007). Des images et des récits qui disent le changement, des questions, des impasses et des possibles Regards croisés. N. Lecomte. Rochefort, Centre Culturels des Roches de Rochefort: 122-126. Stassart, P. & Collet, E. (2001) “Construction socio-technique de la qualité,” in Mormont, M. (Ed.) A la recherche de la qualité, Ed. Université de Liège, 51-86. Collet, E. & Stassart, P. (2001) “Initiatives comme itinéraire d'apprentissage”, in Mormont, M. (Ed.) A la recherche de la qualité, Ed. Université de Liège, 87-112. Stassart, P. (1999) “Label : Signe officiel de qualité? Le label de qualité Wallon Blanc Bleu Fermier,” in Du savoir aux saveurs, Stassart, P. (Ed.), 71-85. Stassart, P. & Collet, E. (1999), “Construction d’un label de qualité, les régions fragiles face à la mondialisation,” Coll. Débats et Tendances en développement régional, Rimouski. Canada, 179-192. Collet, E. & Stassart, P. (1999), “Economie sociale et Innovation socioéconomique dans le secteur de l’élevage en Wallonie,” Les cahiers du Ciriec Canada, “Rapports entre recherche et intervention pour le développement local et l’Economie sociale, enjeux et défis,” CIREIC ACFAS colloquium, 1998, Montréal, 142-153. 3.4 Recent research reports Jamar, D., P. M. Stassart, et al. (2009). La production de viande bovine en agriculture biologique, au croisement des attentes des producteurs, des distributeurs et des consommateurs, en harmonie avec le cahier des charges. Libramont: 139. Stassart, P., M. Louviaux, & Slegten, R. (2007). Prospective participative locale: quatre scénarios pour le territoire et l'agriculture en 2022. Résultats-Evaluation-Méthodologie. Arlon, Université de Liège. Lamine, C., P. Stassart et al. (2006). Alimenter le lien entre consommateurs, éleveurs et animaux. Brussels, Fondation Roi Baudouin. 3.5 Recent oral presentations Stassart, P., M. (2010) Opening lecture : The potential of agroecology for the ecological transition of agriculture. in, The potentiela of agroecology for the ecological transition of agriculture, 22-24 februari, Arlon. Stassart, P., M. (2009) Transicao agroecologia como perspectivo para o desinvolvmento sustentivel de communidades ruralis in, Séminaire international d’agroécologie, 17 novembre 2009, Embrapa cerrados, Brasilia Stassart, P. (2009) Agroecology and the emergence of "publics" Pp. 15 p. in, XXIII ESRS , re-inventing the rural: between the natural and the social, WG 47 "Inventing sustainable agriculture", Vasaa, Stassart, P. (2008) «Running an interdisciplinary competency group. Pp. 14 (Newcastle: University of Newcastle Center for Rural Economy) Stassart, P. (2007). “What makes the differences: short versus long supply chains.” AAG Conference, San Francisco, April 17-21. Stassart, P. & Lamine C. (2006) “Dialogue entre consommateurs producteurs animal de ferme,” Communication presented at the 6th Swine and Poultry Farming Day, November 8, Gembloux (Belgium). Stassart, P. & Jamar, D. (2006) “Missing protocols and legitimacy systems, qualification and effort conventions in the transformation of relations between distributors and breeders.” Paper presented at the Joint Annual Meeting of AFHV Society and AFS Society” June 7-9, Boston (United States). Stassart, P. Mormont, M. & Louviaux M.. (2006) “Back to work.,” paper presented at the Sustainable Consumption Conference, June 1-3, Madison, WI (United States). Stassart, P. Stilmant, D. & Jamar D. (2006) “How to evaluate organic agri-food chain sustainability? Application to cattle meat production sector,” paper presented at the European Joint Organic Congress, Organic Farming and European Rural Development, May 30-31, 2006, in Odense, Denmark. ULG, may 2010 8 CV P. M. Stassart