A focused scientific project, promoting transversality
MUSE seeks to address three intertwined challenges:
- Promoting an innovative agriculture to contribute to food security and environmental quality;
- Fostering a transition towards an environmentally-friendly society;
- Improving human health in changing environments.
These three challenges concern the whole planet and most particularly developing countries in Africa, Asia, South America, especially in inter-tropical areas, and around the Mediterranean Sea. Agriculture, environment, biodiversity, biology and health sciences are at the core of this project. For each of these disciplines, and in addition to research support in the mentioned fields, MUSE will dramatically transform the way we work and will lead to building bridges between: agriculture and environmental sciences to address concepts and prospects in agro-ecology; environment and health sciences to cover the new area of ecology of health; and, between health and agriculture to establish a link between nutrition and well-being conditions.