Environment

Changes in viticultural practices were announced by the Ecophyto program. But constraints linked to climatic, economic and social disturbances have imposed themselves and are blocking the innovation system. Have scientific disciplines become too isolated one from another, from viticulture and from society at large, to the point of losing the ability to integrate alternative forms of knowledge and reasoning in order to innovate and act in a complex system?

This case illustrates an example of breeding resulting from a combination of genetics, environment and silvicultural knowledge that allowed the maintenance and development of an entire economic sector.