Christine AubrySenior Associate Researcher and Consultant Professor

AgroParisTech
INRAE

Christine Aubry is an agricultural engineer who holds a PhD in agronomy (AgroParisTech) and is qualified to supervise research. She is currently responsible for the Urban Agriculture research team at SADAPT UMR (joint research centre) and co-leads an engineering training programme at AgroParisTech (Engineering of Urban Vegetated Spaces). She initiated the T4P (Toits Parisiens Productifs Projet Pilote) project and created the research team on urban agriculture in 2012. She has been overseeing an "Urban Agriculture" Book Series with two Canadian colleagues at Springer since 2014.

Biodiversity

Reconciling nature and the city, a highly artificial environment, is an art that is practised from the scale of the building to that of the suburban territory, including that of the neighbourhood.

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Scientific publications

Journal articles

Lisa Bertrand, Giulia Giacchè, Daniela Sias, Christine Aubry Déploiement de projets d’agriculture urbaine dans les quartiers prioritaires sous l’impulsion de l’action publique : une diversité inattendue, Deployment of Urban Agriculture Projects in Priority Neighborhoods Driven by Public Policy: An Unexpected Diversity

Cahiers Agricultures, 2025, 34, pp.15. ⟨10.1051/cagri/2025013⟩

Other publications

Christine Aubry, Isabelle Coll, Alexandra Courtin, Christian Mougin Les pollutions des matrices environnementales air, eaux, sols et leur sensibilité aux évolutions climatiques en Île-de-France

Les Carnets du GREC francilien, 2025, 70 p

BLOG

Agnès Fargue-Lelièvre, Christine Aubry, Clotilde Saurine, Doudja Saïdi-Kabeche et al. L’Île-de-France pourrait-elle être autonome sur le plan alimentaire ?, Can Ile-de-France be autonomous for food?

2025

Journal articles

Giulia Giacche, Christine Aubry Vers la définition d’outils et méthodes pour le développement de l’agriculture en ville : l’itinéraire METH-EXPAU et ses modes de transfert

Natures Sciences Sociétés, A paraître, Dossier "Co-construire des démarches participatives pour accompagner les transitions territoriales"

Journal articles

Awa Ba, Christine Aubry, Giulia Giacche, Joëlle Salomon Cavin Entretien avec Dr Awa Ba, Enseignante-Chercheure au Sénégal, spécialiste de l’agriculture urbaine

Territoire en mouvement. Revue de Géographie et d'Aménagement, 2024, 2024, pp.61-62. ⟨10.4000/122m5⟩

Book sections

Perrine Burnod, Angel Avadí, Paula Fernandes, Frédéric Feder et al. Le maraîchage pour les villes africaines : contributions, défis et innovations au regard de la sécurité alimentaire

Thomas, Alban; Alpha, Arlène; Barczak, Aleksandra; Zakhia-Rozis, Nadine. Durabilité des systèmes pour la sécurité alimentaire. Combiner les approches locales et globales, Quae, pp.223-235, 2024, Synthèses, 978-2-7592-3852-1

Pilot site

Vegetable garden on the rooftop of AgroParisTech

Vegetable rooftop at AgroParisTech

AgroParisTech's experimental rooftop has been used since 2012 to design urban agriculture systems in rooftop boxes, using urban residues as components of technosols, with the aim of studying the services provided by

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Practitioner group

Nature in the city

The benefits and costs related to green infrastructure in cities need to be better understood through assessment tools that measure environmental impacts, for example, carbon emissions due to the transport of substrates,

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