AGROSOLUTIONS

Their core work

AGROSOLUTIONS is the agronomy advisory division of InVivo Group, one of France's largest agricultural cooperative networks, representing thousands of farmers and grain traders. Their core work is translating sustainable farming practices into field-level implementation — specifically crop diversification strategies (rotations, intercropping, multiple cropping) and integrated weed management without reliance on chemical inputs. In H2020 projects, they serve as the practitioner bridge: bringing real-world farming networks and cooperative access into research consortia that would otherwise remain academic. Their value is combining agronomic expertise with direct reach into operational farms across France and Europe.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both H2020 projects ran concurrently from 2017 to 2022, which makes any early-versus-late shift in focus impossible to detect — they entered and exited the programme in a single cohort. All observable keywords come from the later project phases, which is typical for multi-year RIA projects where outputs accumulate toward the end. Their profile appears stable rather than evolving: sustainable crop management, weed control, and farmer knowledge exchange have been their consistent contribution throughout.

With only two concurrent projects covering the same five-year window there is no directional signal from the data, but their consistent focus on non-chemical weed management and crop diversification places them squarely in the trajectory of the EU Farm-to-Fork agenda — making future RIA collaborations on pesticide reduction or agroecological transitions a natural fit.

How they like to work

AGROSOLUTIONS participates exclusively as a consortium partner and has never led an H2020 project. Their two projects averaged roughly 40 partners each across 15 countries, the large-consortium format typical of multi-actor RIA calls in the food and agriculture pillar. This pattern indicates they join large collaborative efforts to provide practitioner legitimacy and farmer network access, rather than driving research agendas or managing project administration.

81 unique consortium partners across 15 countries from just two projects — a notably broad exposure for a minimal H2020 footprint, reflecting the large multi-actor format of both RIAs they joined. Their network spans the full European farming research landscape but is not yet deep in any single bilateral relationship visible from this data.

What sets them apart

As part of InVivo Group, AGROSOLUTIONS brings something most research partners cannot: direct access to a large base of operational farming cooperatives for testing and disseminating research outcomes at field scale. This makes them particularly valuable in any project that needs real-world uptake beyond academic outputs — especially for applied RIA calls requiring multi-actor validation. Their niche sits firmly at the intersection of agronomy consulting and cooperative farm management, not pure research.

Highlights from their portfolio

• DiverIMPACTS
  Their largest funded project (EUR 134,400), targeting crop diversification through rotation and intercropping promoted through farming value chains — directly relevant to EU biodiversity and food security policy.
• IWMPRAISE
  Addressed the urgent practical challenge of reducing herbicide dependency in European field and horticultural crops through integrated, non-chemical weed management solutions.