AgriShare
This application would be available for:
Professionals, town halls and private individuals with exploitable surfaces. We can imagine a town hall with a plot of land and wanting to create a neighborhood vegetable garden. A company that has roof space on its premises and wants to make the most of it.
Individuals, farmers, schools, wanting to maintain an agricultural activity. Whether it is occasional or regular.
Service offered
The service offered is simple: an application linking holders of exploitable zones in urban areas with people wishing to practice an agricultural activity there.
What is resilience of an agricultural system?
The resilience of an agricultural system is defined as its capacity to restore its reference functioning in the face of economic, social and environmental shocks and stresses.
The resilience of a system can be of two kinds:
- A specific resilience: either a one-off and sudden disruption
- General or global resilience: a disruption that the system has to cope with over the long term.
The resilience of a system thus takes into account three factors:
- its robustness: "the system is capable of tolerating disturbances without deviating from its routine. For example, a dairy farm experiencing a drought can tolerate this hazard if its forage stocks are sufficient. »
- its adaptability: "the system is capable of implementing technical, organizational or commercial adaptations to cope with contingencies and quickly return to a routine regime. For example, to cope with repeated droughts, a diversification of crop rotation would make it possible to distribute climatic risks over different crops and thus increase production stability. »
- its transformability: "the system is capable of deep transformation in order to endure. For example, faced with a drastic drop in the price of milk, an intensive dairy farm can evolve towards a thrifty and autonomous system that may involve changing the breed of the herd, setting up a new production workshop, changing its marketing method, etc." . »
How did we think of this application?
Our topic was the promotion of resilient agriculture, so we were interested in new farming techniques, especially in urban areas. We then realized that it was complicated to have our own vegetable garden in big cities such as Paris or Lyon. So we decided to create an application dedicated to that.