Michel Griffon (; 31 October 1948 â 4 January 2026) was a French agronomist.
Born in Bourges on 31 October 1948, Griffon earned his Diplôme d'Ingénieur from the Institut national agronomique Paris Grignon in 1971. He then worked as a public policy analyst for the Société d'études pour le développement économique et social, an organization created by the Caisse des dépôts et consignations. He was then a program secretary for the from 1982 to 1986. While working as a research scientist for the Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement, he invented the term "ecologically intensive agriculture" to describe farming practices in the Global South. In 2015, he joined the scientific council of the .
Griffon died on 4 January 2026, at the age of 77.