EcoControl (Écologie des Communautés et Outils Numériques pour augmenTer la RégulatiOn naturelle des insectes ravageurs en agriculture)

A project coordinated by Astrid Cruaud (INRAE), part of the national PEPR program on agroecology and digital technology co-piloted by INRAE and Inria. The consortium brings together roughly 50 scientists from INRAE, Inria, CNRS, and CIRAD, plus five higher-education institutions, to combine field ecology, NLP-based literature mining, DNA metabarcoding, and AI-assisted image recognition to understand and strengthen the natural regulation of crop pests by their arthropod enemies.