Expertise

Expertise to support your initiatives and projects.

MAELAB is a consultancy whose mission is to support territorial stakeholders in designing and evaluating agroecological and bioeconomic transition scenarios, consistent with local and global challenges, using scientifically validated digital tools.

Fields of expertise

Processes covering agrosystems.

Our field of expertise and the processes we can study cover major aspects of agrosystems and territorial bioeconomy systems:

Water flows in agro-hydrosystems and quantitative water management

Nitrogen and carbon cycles

Anaerobic digestion

Resilience and sustainability

Environmental impacts and ecosystem services

Socio-economic performance

Agroecology, bioeconomy

Management of organic residual products

Biodiversity

Our methodology

A proven methodology, in four stages

Which territory? Which stakeholders? Which issues?

Shared diagnosis of the current (baseline) situation

Generation of results in the form of key indicators produced by MAELIA

Recommendations and advice to support decision-making

Automated collection of data and exchange with local experts

Co-design of scenarios to be simulated in MAELIA

Summary of results and comparison of scenarios

Follow-up, monitoring adaptive management

field feedback loop

STEP 1 · Model

Carry out a diagnosis (an initial snapshot) of a farming territory's current situation by cross-referencing different data sources.

Most data comes from open databases. Interviews with local stakeholders then help validate the territory’s farming practices.

Crop types

Field boundaries and crop rotations

Climate data, current and future

Soil pedological characteristics

Cropping systems and technical pathways

Biomass processing facilities

Click a stage to explore the detail

Areas of intervention

Focus areas you can mobilise for your territorial project.

Food

Territorial Food Projects

A diagnosis of the local food system, tested against the people who live it, to build the pathways for your food project.

Climate · Water

PCAET / PTGE

Diagnosis and quantified scenarios for your climate-air-energy plans and territorial water management projects.

Climate · Water

HMUC studies / abstractable volumes

Hydrology-Environments-Uses-Climate (HMUC) studies and abstractable-volume assessments, for sustainable quantitative management of agricultural water resources.

Ecosystem services

Payments for Environmental Services

Design and evaluation of PES schemes (water, carbon, biodiversity) tailored to farms.

Value chains

Low-Impact value chains

Structuring low-pesticide-impact value chains and supporting their scale-up.

Bioeconomy

Territorial bioeconomy

Resource recovery and local material and energy loops (anaerobic digestion, biomaterials).

Innovation

CSR strategy / Innovation / R&D

Scientific framing of your innovation, responsibility and agricultural R&D initiatives.

Farms

Farm transition

Simulating the impact of practice changes and supporting the shift towards agroecology.

Foresight

Territorial foresight 2050 / 2070

Long-term pathways and tooled foresight approaches, facing climate change.

Evaluation

Impact assessment

Quantify and compare the effects of your scenarios on carbon, water and biodiversity, with MAELIA.