L’Institut Agro is a French grande école for higher education and research in food, agriculture and the environment, created on 1 January 2020. It brings together three schools: L’Institut Agro Dijon, L’Institut Agro Montpellier and L’Institut Agro Rennes-Angers. The institution says it has 6,000 students, including 3,000 engineering students and 450 doctoral students, 1,400 staff, six campuses, three agricultural experimental sites and 35 research units, and that it supports 800 institutions in agricultural technical education.
It says it covers topics and sectors related to plants and animals, including vine and wine, horticulture and fisheries. The Montpellier school names vine and wine, digital agriculture and sustainable food systems among its study and research themes, works with partners including INRAE, Cirad and IRD, and runs two experimental farms, Domaine du Chapitre and Domaine du Merle. The Rennes-Angers school says it conducts research with INRAE, particularly on agri-food and fisheries topics. L’Institut Agro also has a foundation, 16 chairs and a network of business incubators, and reports more than 156 international partnerships.