Institut Agro

L’Institut Agro is the french institute for higher education and research in agriculture, food systems and the environment. Headquartered in Paris it has six campus embedded in the dynamics of the cities of Angers, Dijon, Montpellier and Rennes, which cover the diversity of agri-food systems across France, Europe and worldwide.

L’Institut Agro delivers post-graduate education to 4500 students in total, among which 450 PhD candidates and 2500 students of masters of engineering navigating 8 tracks and 30 majors. With the inclusion of its bachelor, the support to 800 vocational schools for agriculture and its professional development program L’Institut Agro is internationally recognized as a major player in capacity development in agrifood systems engineering, design and management. Its expertise encompasses life science, food science, agriculture, data science, livestock and fish, horticulture and viticulture, agri-business, rural development, ecosystems, biodiversity, landscape and natural resource management, socio-economy and policies, bioeconomy and climate change.

With its 60 000 Alumni, 300 faculty members collaborating with 1250 researchers in its 39 research units in partnership with INRAE, CIRAD, CNRS, IRD, IFREMER and INSERM, 4 experimental pilot farming estates, 19 Partnership Programs with private companies and business incubators it is involved worldwide in the transformation of agri-food systems to reach the sustainable development goals.