Eric Duchemin

As scientific and training director at the Urban Agriculture Lab (AU/LAB), Eric Duchemin coordinates all the interdisciplinary research at AULAB. He is also in charge of AULAB support activities for urban farms and social initiatives, and research facilities of the Lab, including 2 rooftop urban farms and a business incubator. For more than 15 years, he has conducted interdisciplinary research on urban agriculture, in order to document this social movement. He had coordinates, among other things, the research project Evaluation of Urban Agriculture as a Green Infrastructure for Individual and Collective Resilience in the Context of Climate and Social Changes.

An internationally recognized specialist, he leads training, participates in committees and in research or intervention projects internationally, particularly in Canada, France, Belgium and the United States.