On-going projects at ESA
This year, ESA was presenting several of its on-going and upcoming projects:
❖ Making science accessible to everyone via disseminating the first results of the research project – Jack
❖ Launching the Business Chair for Women in Agriculture
❖ Presenting the new Professional bachelor’s in marketing and value Chain of the local food products.
🌿 Science is for everyone – Conference on the project Jack
Pulses from the fields to the restaurants, how to transform pulses from all perspectives?
The project Jack aims at enhancing the value of pulses in the dishes, from the farms based on an original culinary approach with a positive environmental footprint.
Pulses are underrated by consumers and its production is very low in France. The reasons behind the poor consumption of pulses come from the profit uncertainty at the crop stage till the marketing stage which is poorly represented in gastronomy due to a lack of culinary savoir-faire and due to a biased visual representation of it.
Pulses are underrepresented in research studies and in food and agricultural development. The conference held at the Paris International Agricultural Show by ESA gave an explanation on the blocking issues targeted by the project and how the multidisciplinary approach applied to all the sectors contribute to tomorrow’s solutions.
👩🌾 Launching the Business Chair “Women in Agriculture/Agriculture with Women ”
The new Business Chair was created to enhance and to reinforce the place of women in Agriculture by:
Reinforcing the visibility of women in Agriculture and training the next generations on it by:
- Increasing the visibility of women in agricultural development.
- Promoting and training youngsters on setting up an observatory and research dissemination on women’s place in agriculture.
- Promoting agriculture employment with women in secondary schools, focusing on diversity, attractivity, generational renewal.
Promoting entrepreneurship and excellence for women:
- Engaging Women in entrepreneurship
- Supporting Women in research
Engaging different actors in the best way (internal and external):
- Sharing best practices and common problematics among peers (conferences, think tank)
- Facilitating a shared governance within your own institution.
🍽 Study in the new Professional bachelor’s in marketing and value chain of the local food products for the 2024 intake
Because giving value to agricultural production is possible via the development of local processing and marketing strategies and aims at:
- Strengthening the relationships between producers and consumers.
Recognizing the consumers and engaging the social relationships are already a strong daily motivation for our producers. - Bringing production value and getting an additional source of revenue.
- Highlighting a local savoir-faire which needs to be preserved and to be back to the roots.
- Contributing to the food resilience of territories and of the local economy.
Developing such strategies requires specific competences to be a multi-skilled professional. It is the main objective of the new study program – Professional bachelor’s in marketing and value chain of the local food products: one-year study program with a multidisciplinary approach taught in French from the 2024 intake.