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Directeur : Mourad Hannachi INRAE Deputy Directeur  : Francesco Accatino INRAE

UMR 1048 SADAPT is an interdisciplinary research unit working on the adaptation of agri-food systems to new challenges related to sociotechnical transitions, crises, and changes.

SADAPT focuses on four priority themes that are news challenges:

• TP1: Food and Urban Agriculture.
• TP2: Health(s) for More Sustainable Agriculture.
• TP3: Rethinking and Redesigning Agri-Food Systems.
• TP4: Transdisciplinary Approaches for Public Action and Territorial Development.

SADAPT addresses these challenges and how they interact with pre-existing issues (such as climate change, biodiversity loss, agroecology…). To foster research freedom, SADAPT also addresses issues beyond its priority themes — topics that may emerge at any moment. This is made possible through agile and flexible “exploratory” working groups, supported by internal SADAPT funding.

SADAPT groups together around 100 members, including about 50 permanent researchers and lecturers in both social sciences and biotechnical sciences. They come from the INRAE ACT Department – Action, Transitions, and Territories and from AgroParisTech with expertise in cropping systems agronomy (SIAFEE Department), livestock farming systems (SVS Department), ); and economics, social and organization sciences (SESG department).

The animation and collective life of the unit is organized around:

• Meetings of two decision-making and consultation bodies: A service council (made up of elected officials from each category of staff, non-permanent staff included, deals with questions of collective life) and a Laboratory Council (made up of team leaders and of axes. Deals with questions of scientific strategy).
• A group and an event for “doctoral students and non-tenured staff”. co-managed by non-permanent representatives and incumbents. Organizes actions for doctoral students including the non-tenure-track welcome day and the SADAPT seminar for doctoral and non-tenured students.
• Lab seminars. Place for internal cross-disciplinary scientific activities at the UMR. Usually with a guest speaker
• Science-Society seminars. Place of public entertainment and aimed at communication and exchanges with the general public