Professor Josée Fortin, from the Faculty of Agricultural and Consumer Sciences, is among the co-authors of a manual awarded a Roberval Prize in the Higher Education category. The work Integrated crop protectionresulting from a collaboration with agronomist Roger Doucet and researcher and scientific advisor Onil Samuel, addresses the subject of crop protection against diseases, weeds and insects in conventional agriculture.
This is a fundamental book on the sustainable integration of plant protection interventions. This unique guide is intended for students of agricultural science, as well as agronomists, cereal and market garden, greenhouse and horticultural producers. It took the exceptional collaboration of three specialists to meet the challenge.
Josée Fortin, agronomist and professor of soil chemistry in the Department of Soils and Agri-food Engineering, holds a bachelor’s degree in bio-agronomy and a master’s degree in soil chemistry from Laval University as well as a doctorate in soil physics and biochemistry from the University of California at Riverside. In addition to giving courses on pesticides and the environment, the rational management of pest control products, chemistry, biochemistry and soil microbiology, Professor Fortin directs, alone or in collaboration, more than twenty research projects on organic soils and soil health and is co-author of numerous scientific articles.
The Roberval Prize was awarded on December 7 at the Cité internationale de la langue française, in France. This competition, open to works from all French-speaking countries, is organized each year by the University of Technology of Compiègne. It rewards works that explain technology in the French language in five categories, namely higher education, general public, television, youth as well as scientific and technical journalism.
