Hatem Belhouchette

Hatem Belhouchette started his study Crop Production System at the National Institute of Agronomy-Tunisia in 1991. In 1995 Hatem graduated with a major in Crop production System and minors in Farm Economics. From 1996 to 1999 he realized, on irrigation cropping system in Mediterranean regions, a Master of Science in MAI-Bari. In 2000 he started his PhD study on Cropping System sustainability by using bio-economic approach associated to GIS system in Northern Tunisia. In 2004 he received his PhD. Since 2003, he has been appointed at MAI-Montpellier institute as a lecturer and researcher in Agricultural Production Systems. His main expertise and interest is the development of operational methods for the assessment, exploration and design of agricultural production systems, both at field and farm levels. He is presently coordinating research network that aims at the development of a system for agro-economic and environmental modeling. He ran several national and international research projects, and supervises several Master and PhDs projects mainly on farming resilience analysis under climate change and market uncertainty topics. He is currently associate professor-researcher in the UMR-ABSys.