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Students from universities with which L'Institut Agro Montpellier has signed an exchange agreement can come to take courses in agronomy, agri-food and the management of rural areas and combine this with an internship.

New training needs are arising with transitions in agriculture and food systems. The emergence of novel professions requiring new skills means that the knowledge produced by research must be rapidly disseminated to facilitate the development of innovation.

The department's teaching team provides students with theoretical and methodological skills for the following fields of application: Agricultural and agrifood economics, Rural and territorial development, Food consumption and marketing, Supply chains and agrifood systems, Business management and entrepreneurship, Environmental and natural resource management.

Montpellier SupAgro provides the space and equipment needed to organize and host local, national, and international level scientific events. Numerous meetings, conventions, seminars, and conferences are held on the campus every year.

The Domaine du Merle, located in Salon-de-Provence — the only Montpellier SupAgro establishment in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur region — is a teaching and experimental platform specialized in transhumant sheep breeding, irrigation and water management, and production of Crau PDO hay.

Since the 1980s, the acceleration of global trade, greater awareness of the negative effects of certain forms of agriculture on the environment and health related directly to homogenization, and the simplification of production systems based on a high use of inputs, led to a rethinking of farming systems. Maintaining or even increasing agricultural production in a sustainable way now requires the mobilization of ecological processes linked to resource dynamics, particularly through the management of local biodiversity.

CAPeye is a monitoring, training and expertise unit focussed on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). It allows one to follow news about the CAP and understand changes in the policy. It is a tool that can be used by students and teachers, but also the media, professionals and researchers. CAPeye is managed from within the Department of Economics, Management and Social Sciences at Montpellier SupAgro.