Performances of pesticide-free agroecological cropping systems: the CA-SYS platform

Meeting the challenges of current agriculture requires the development of innovativecropping systems with high environmental, economic and social performances. Agroecologyseeks to optimize the services provided by cultivated and wild biodiversity to reduce thereliance on external inputs while maintaining/increasing cropping system sustainability.Maximizing the delivery of ecosystem services from biodiversity requires an in-depth redesignof production systems considering in-field management as well as ecological infrastructuressurrounding the fields. An agroecological system experiment aims to design and assesscropping systems, the spatio-temporal arrangements of these cropping systems andec…