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The Professor Baptiste GRARD
Dr Baptiste GRARD
Associate Professor in Environmental sciences
Coordinator of the Center for Living Agroecology and food Systems
Expertise
Evaluation of delivered ecosystem services from agricultural ecosystem ; Evaluation and conception of constructed soil in urban agriculture
Research Unit
Agroecology and environment unit
Key words
Agroecology, urban agriculture, rooftop farming, green roof, multi-actor research, soil sciences, ecosystem services, green roof
Ongoing research project or lately completed
- AE4EU : Agroecology for Europe
- PATH2DEA : Paving the Way towards Digitalisation Enabling Agroecology for European Farming Systems
- Soil organic matter and ecosystem services : market gardening and resilient territories.
Teaching activities
- Intervention in MsC Agroecology, Specific area of Study (DA) TIC-TAC and teaching the Food and cities module
Professional experience and studies
- 2021-2024: Project manager and researcher with the Agroecology for Europe project (www.ae4eu.eu)
- 2018-2020 : Project manager and postdoc – Research project SEMOIRS, FEW-Meter and T4P – UMR ECOSYS (AgroParisTech – INRA)
- 2014-2017: Research engineer (1 year) then PhD (3 years) – Thesis in environmental sciences « Productive Technosol made of urban waste: delivered ecosystem services and evolution ». UMR ECOSYS and ESE (AgroParisTech – INRA – Paris Sud University).
- Research project T4P, TROL and Techn’AU.
- 2011-2013 : Master in Ecology, Biodiversity and Evolution (EBE) – professional specialization « Ecological engineering and ecosystem management» co-certified by ‘ENS, AgroParisTech, MNHN, Pierre and Marie Curie and Paris XI universities
Latest publications
Journal articles
2025
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- Clara Lina Bader, Nina Isabella Moeller, Baptiste Grard, Alexander Wezel, Samuel Féret, et al.. Philanthropic Funding for Agroecology in Europe – Opening the (black) box of sustainable food system actors. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 2025, pp.1 - 30. ⟨10.1080/21683565.2025.2489416⟩. ⟨hal-05056229⟩
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- Baptiste Grard, Alexandre Barrier-Guillot, Claire Chenu. Early pedogenesis of a young Technosol made from organic wastes. Geoderma, 2025, 459, pp.117343. ⟨10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117343⟩. ⟨hal-05097320⟩
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2024
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- Jason Hawes, Benjamin Goldstein, Joshua Newell, Erica Dorr, Silvio Caputo, et al.. Comparing the carbon footprints of urban and conventional agriculture. Nature Cities, 2024, 1, pp.164-173. ⟨10.1038/s44284-023-00023-3⟩. ⟨hal-04418573⟩
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2023
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- Anna Brumer, Alexander Wezel, Jens Dauber, Tor Arvid Breland, Baptiste Grard. Development of agroecology in Austria and Germany [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]. Open Research Europe, 2023, 3 (25), pp.1-20. ⟨10.12688/openreseurope.15431.1⟩. ⟨hal-04119205⟩
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- Erica Dorr, Jason K Hawes, Benjamin Goldstein, Agnès Fargue-Lelièvre, Runrid Fox-Kämper, et al.. Food production and resource use of urban farms and gardens: a five-country study. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2023, 43, pp.18. ⟨10.1007/s13593-022-00859-4⟩. ⟨hal-03969391⟩
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- Ileana Iocola, Corrado Ciaccia, Luca Colombo, Baptiste Grard, Stefania Maurino, et al.. Agroecology research in Europe funded by European and transnational programmes: current status and perspectives [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]. Open Research Europe, 2023, 2 (139), pp.1-38. ⟨10.12688/openreseurope.15264.1⟩. ⟨hal-04119143⟩
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2022
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- Sophie S. Joimel, Baptiste Grard, Claire Chenu, Pénélope Cheval, Samuel Mondy, et al.. One green roof type, one Technosol, one ecological community. Ecological Engineering, 2022, 175, pp.106475. ⟨10.1016/j.ecoleng.2021.106475⟩. ⟨hal-03665415⟩
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2021
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- Silvio Caputo, Victoria Schoen, Kathrin Specht, Baptiste Grard, Chris Blythe, et al.. Applying the food-energy-water nexus approach to urban agriculture: From FEW to FEWP (Food-Energy-Water-People). Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 2021, 58, pp.126934. ⟨10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126934⟩. ⟨hal-03323197⟩
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- Giulia Giacche, Jean-Noël Consalès, Baptiste J-P. Grard, Anne-Cécile Daniel, Claire Chenu. Toward an evaluation of cultural ecosystem services delivered by urban micro-Farms. Sustainability, 2021, 13 (4), pp.1716. ⟨10.3390/su13041716⟩. ⟨hal-03280119⟩
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- Baptiste Grard, Sophie Joimel, L. Vieublé-Gonod, Giulia Giacche, Christine Aubry, et al.. Evaluation des services écosystémiques fournis par les sols de micro-fermes urbaines : Méthodologie et retours d'expériences. Étude et Gestion des Sols, 2021, 28 (1), pp.31-48. ⟨hal-03665514⟩
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