CEN Occitanie received students from Paris Dauphine University, as part of training on agricultural and food issues organized by Solagro.
The 20 students and their supervisors were welcomed to the operational headquarters of the SCEA in Montesquieu-Volvestre. Franck Gaulard, manager of the SCEA and Mélanie Némoz, coordinator of the LIFE Biodiv’Paysanne project, presented the missions of the CEN Occitanie about preserving natural heritage and biodiversity, then the LIFE Biodiv’Paysanne program and detailed the SCEA (objectives , statuses, developed sectors, etc.).
These presentations went on in the field : walking through the different restored plots or being restored, highlighted the problems encountered and the actions implemented (wild and local seed harvest tests by brushing, seedling tests, manual/mechanical/animal reopening areas, assisted regeneration of hedges, preservation of ponds, etc.). This was also an opportunity to get to know the COTERRA project and to discuss the potential synergies between this project and the LIFE Biodiv’Paysanne.
Photo ©Mélanie Némoz CEN Occitanie
