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NEOMA and VIVESCIA: committed to driving the agricultural transition together

Published on 16/12/2025View profile on Facebook View profile on X-twitter View profile on Linkedin View profile on Email View profile on Copy

NEOMA, together with its Chair in Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development, is proud to announce a strategic partnership with VIVESCIA, one of France's leading grain cooperatives.

Why is VIVESCIA teaming up with NEOMA?

Addressing today’s agricultural sustainability challenges calls for a detailed understanding of data, the mechanisms for adopting regenerative practices and the economic models that make these transitions possible.

It is exactly this kind of expertise that NEOMA’s Chair in Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development is building: a scientific, data-driven and action‑oriented approach to the bioeconomy.

This new partnership will make it possible to:

Carry out research into the sustainability of regional agriculture
Analyse the strategic role of data in the agricultural models of the future
Explore the drivers that encourage the adoption of regenerative practices within cooperatives
Enhance our students’ educational experience based on insights from VIVESCIA’s TRANSITIONS programme, one of Europe’s most ambitious regenerative agriculture initiatives

Nicolas Béfort, Chair holder

NEOMA is deeply committed to tackling the challenges posed by the agricultural transition. Collaborating with a key industry player like VIVESCIA only deepens this commitment.

For VIVESCIA, this partnership makes perfect sense: leveraging NEOMA's academic expertise to accelerate its solutions and make the TRANSITIONS programme more impactful.

Christoph Büren, President of the VIVESCIA Group

Drawing on NEOMA’s academic strengths, its Chair in Bioeconomy and its students’ innovative mindset will help us expand our knowledge base. This means we can keep on moving forward and accelerate our solutions for a more competitive and sustainable form of agriculture and supply-chain system.

This partnership once again demonstrates that innovation, economic performance and environmental responsibility can progress in tandem.

Professor

BEFORT Nicolas

Nicolas holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Reims Champagne Ardenne. His teaching at NEOMA BS focuses on the economics of ecological transition and the development of new sustainable practices. His research work, at the crossroads of ecological economics, institutional economics, innovat