PPR Cultiver Protéger Autrement

French Priority Research Programme "Growing and Protecting crops Differently" (Cultiver et Protéger Autrement" was created in order to meet the French government objectives in reducing pesticides uses while developing efficient alternatives. To reach these objectives, financial support is provided through the investment programme for future (PIA3). PPR-CPA is a 30 millions euros programme which takes part of the national investment plan with French National Research Agency as operator and INRAE as scientific coordinator. In this context, PPR-CPA's mission is to product knowledge, skills and tools to promote transition and to develop new agricultural practices through identifying alternative pathways and mobilizing agroecological, biocontrol, genetics approaches. In 2019, a call for proposals was launched to select innovative research projects with hopeful and ambitious strategies. Among the submitted projects, 10 had been slected to join of this challenge. These 10 different projects work on transversal topics from all scientific fronts that bring a new collaborative research.