15 - 17 October 2025. INRAE and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) organised the second International Forum on Agroecosystem Living Labs (IF-ALL 2025).
It was an update on this new approach around the world.
Building on the success of the first forum held in Montreal in 2023, which brought together the international community of Living Labs in agroecology, the aim of this second edition was to take stock of research, actions and lessons learned in the use of this new approach around the world.
Over three days, the event featured discussion panels and parallel sessions of scientific papers to establish state-of-the-art practices, share success stories from case studies, and address the challenges facing the international agroecology Living-Lab community.
The Forum also featured networking events and field tours aiming to generate dialogue and create an inspiring space for collaboration and action.
Extracts of the programmme
15/10 Virtual Posters
- The Agroecology Partnership, an EC-funded initiative valuing living labs to drive engagement in the agroecological transition - Le Gall Olivier ANR. 72 partners across 26 Member States, Associated Countries, and Third Countries support an agriculture sector that is fit to meet the targets and challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, food security and sovereignty, and the environment, while ensuring a profitable and attractive activity for farmers.
- Agroecology Partnership: Living labs and the monitoring of agroecology transitions as part of a nested socio-ecological system - Mark Caulfield, Wageningen University & Research
- Participatory rural innovation lab: towards a sustainable agrifood system in the context of climate change - Vanegas Cubillos + Martha Cristina, Alliance Bioversity and CIAT
- Explicit engagement principles support the performance of agroecological living landscapes (ALLs) in terms of fostering transdisciplinary research and the co-design of solutions - Lisa Elena Fuchs Alliance Bioversity-CIAT
- Co-designing and Implementing Biomass Circularity at the Territorial Level through Rural Living Labs: Insights from a Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach in Madagascar - Tiago Teixeira + da Silva Siqueira Cirad
- A Circular Bioeconomy Living Lab for Agro-Ecological and Energy Transitions: The Case of the Tropical Territory of Réunion island Tiago - Tiago Teixeira + da Silva Siqueira Cirad
- An Agroecological living lab (ALL) as a factory of agroecological trade-offs in favor of sustainable food systems in two terroirs of Niger - Sophia Alami CIRAD
- Participatory innovations for low emissions food systems: lessons from living labs in China, Colombia, Kenya and Vietnam - Ryan Nehring, International Food Policy Research Institute, IFPRI
- Engaging in global policy discourse for effective transition of smallholder farming into agroecological systems with the Rio Conventions’ lens - Cargele Masso One CGIAR
- Innovating together for sustainable solutions: The WasiLab Living Labs initiative - Marie Agarrat IRD. WasiLab/Ecuador is the first interdisciplinary centre for sustainability sciences in Latin America, and stands out for its innovative scientific approach. Using living labs – a method in which citizens, residents and users are considered key players in the research and innovation process, to encourage participative and committed research – WasiLab encourages transformative and collaborative research while investing in local development.
16/10 Key European initiatives on Living Labs approaches
- EU Partnership and Mission: AGROECOLOGY Partnership & A Soil Deal for Europe, Luis Sánchez Álvarez (European Commission, DG Agriculture and Rural Development)
- EU and beyond: A Global Mapping of Living Labs in Agroecology - Audrey N’gom (INRAE, AGROECOLOGY Partnership, IF-ALL Organizing Committee)
17/10 How can we leverage agroecosystem living labs to establish sound science–society–policy interfaces for evidence co-creation, management and brokerage?
- Chair : Allison Loconto (INRAE, IF-ALL Scientific Committee, Chair)
- Katharina Helming (ZALF, IF-ALL Scientific Committee)
- Lisa Elena Fuchs (CGIAR, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT)
- Heather McKhann (INRAE, Representative in Brussels)
- Luis Sánchez Álvarez (European Commission, DG AGRI)
Parallel sessions - extracts
Theme 1 - Fostering transitions
- From Living Labs to the Living Landscape: Thinking transition through a culture of experimentation in rural spaces. - Marc Piraux (CIRAD)
- NATAE: Fostering agroecological transitions in North Africa through Living Labs - Mark Caulfield (Wageningen University & Research)
- From Living Labs to the Living Landscape: Thinking transition through a culture of experimentation in rural spaces. Marc Piraux (CIRAD)
- Multi-stakeholder platforms for the governance of agroecological transitions: A typology and lessons from seven Agroecological Living Landscapes Angela Navarrete-Cruz (Alliance Biodiversity & CIAT)
Theme 2 - Empowering participation
- Supporting community-driven and evidenced-based innovations in investment projects: lessons learnt from IFAD and implications for agroecosystem Living Labs in development - Myrtille Lacoste (IFAD)
- Methods for fostering transdisciplinary research and co-design of agroecological solutions through structured Vision-to-Action (V2A) processes in multi-stakeholder spaces - Lisa Elena Fuchs (Alliance Biodiversity-CIAT)
- Putting co-design to the test: a Living Lab in Kenya Birgit Habermann (ILRI)
- Lost in Navigation? Ensuring Living Lab Frameworks Stay on Course with Local Needs - Etienne Delay (CIRAD)
Theme 3 - Monitoring and Evaluating success
- Agricultural Living Labs: Bridging Transformative Learning Michelle Bonatti (ZALF)
- Applying Utilization Focused and Developmental Evaluation: a Case Study in a Living Lab in Keur Moma Sarr, Senegal. - Marie-Danielle Sarr (ISRA BAME)
- Developmental evaluation to track progress and learn from Living Labs - Erwan Sachet (CIRAD)
- Navigating co-creation processes to build sustainable agroecological systems - Mireille Matt (INRAE)
Theme 4 - Promoting Innovation
- Are organic amendments useful only for soil fertility management? A co-innovative study case from Central Argentina's peri-urban horticultural systems - Gaona Flores Maria Amparo (INTA)
- Co-designing technical Innovations in the context of Agroecological Living Landscapes. Approaches, results, and cross-country learnings - Bernard Triomphe (CIRAD)
- The living lab as a tool to support farmers in the agroecological transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: case of Lac de Guiers in Sénégal - Rahim Ouedraogo (CIRAD)
Theme 5 - Integrating Policy
- The Multistakeholder collaboration framework, the agency and stakeholder theories intertwine in setting up an agroecology living lab for international Agricultural development – Case of Cocoa in Cameroon - Precilia Tata Ngome (IRAD) Institute of Agricultural Research for Development Yaounde, Cameroon
- Governance Structures of Agroecological Living Landscapes in Five Countries, Angela Navarrete-Cruz (Alliance Biodiversity & CIAT)
Theme 6 - Enabling research
- Siliana Living Lab: a platform for agroecological transition in cereal plains - Inès Zouari (National Institute of Agronomy of Tunisia)
Resources
REPORT ON THE FIRST IF-ALL, CANADA, 2023
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