Carla Barlagne

Research

• SIMRA: H2020 project Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas (SIMRA No: 677622 – SIMRA – RIA, Topic: ISIB-03-2015 – Unlocking the growth potential of rural areas through enhanced governance and social innovation (SI); duration: April 2016-2020) funded by the European Commission (EUR 5 577.203,75 Euros) http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/200385_en.html  and www.simra-h2020.eu. The SIMRA project seeks to fill a knowledge gap in understanding and enhancing SI in marginalised rural areas by advancing the state-of-the-art in SI and connected governance mechanisms in agriculture and forestry sectors and in rural development in general. Carla’s contributes to this project by having scientific coordination activities as well as research activities. Her research question focuses on understanding of the factors and conditions of emergence, uptake and diffusion of social innovation in the forestry and agro-forestry sector.
• RESAS Research Programme (2016-2021):Scottish Rural Industries response to changes. Work package 2.4.2. : Agricultural restructuring and farm diversification. This project involves qualitative and quantitative analysis of the uptake of innovative and diversification activities at the farm level in response to changes such as the CAP reforms or the Brexit as well as the global engagement of farmers.
• RESAS Research Programme(2016-2021). Work package 2.3.2. Protecting the genetic diversity of key resources in Scotland. This work involves understanding the links between the management of the agrobiodiversity of potatoes and the resilience of the food chain.

Past research

• Foresight study on Guadeloupean agriculture up to the horizon 2040:(COREDEF – PRDAR 2009-2013) (Strategic Committee for Research, Training and Development – Regional Program for Agricultural Development and European Regional Development Funded project). Carla has been the project manager of as well as scientific contributor to the study. With a panel of experts and a multidisciplinary team of scientists and consultants, she documented the past tendencies of Guadeloupean agriculture, identified its current driving forces and explored its alternative futures.
• Fostering innovation in agricultural sectors: developing an integrated approach to quality in the yam sector in Guadeloupe:(AgroEcoTrop-FEDER project: European Regional Development Funded project). In Carla’s PhD project, she explored the conditions for the uptake of innovative sustainable yam products and a better match of the demand and supply sides. Her focus was on understanding and eliciting farmers and intermediaries’ productive and commercial strategies as well as consumers’ expectations and willingness to pay for sustainable characteristics of yams.
• Agronomic diagnosis of yam production in Guadeloupe: Process of yam yield build-upFEADER-PDR (European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development – Regional Development Plan) 2007-2013. In this project, Carla conducted on farms trials at a regional level to understand the factors (biophysical and management practices) affecting yam yield.