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Asie du Sud-Est insulaire
  • Southeast Asian islands

    Helping island societies and ecosystems adapt to climate change, ensuring food security, managing biodiversity and tree crops...

  • Continental Southeast Asia

    Supporting rubber growing, aquaculture and periurban agriculture, which provide many small-scale producers with an income, helping farmers adapt to markets and emerging animal diseases...

  • Other LAC regions

    Designing high-yielding, environmentally friendly farming and agroforestry systems, developing methods and tools suitable for small-scale producers, improving product quality and food safety...

  • Continental West Africa

    Food and energy security is a priority in this region, given the impact of climate change and population growth...

  • Coastal West Africa

    Using diversified agricultural development to guarantee food security for local populations, preserving natural resources against degradation...

  • East and southern Africa

    Supporting public policy for sustainable farming system management, fostering quality in animal production and animal health...

  • Central Africa

    Managing natural resources in dry grasslands and forest zones is a regional priority and a major issue for sustainable development...

  • Réunion and Mayotte

    CIRAD provides support in terms of managing territories with strong constraints, and emerging animal and plant diseases: risks, sanitary and environmental impact, multi-species cropping systems, genetic diversity...

  • Madagascar

    Managing the exceptional biodiversity found in Madagascar and developing upland rice growing systems suitable for the highlands...

  • Mediterranean

    Managing water requirements and controlling emerging diseases in a context of increasing pressure resulting from climate change and urbanization...

  • Languedoc-Roussillon

    In Montpellier, CIRAD has built a research centre with an international vocation: specialist laboratories and equipment and facilities for receiving, training and teaching students with a view to development in the South...

  • Île-de-France

    CIRAD’s head office is in Paris. The Jardin tropical campus is home to scientific and university teams and NGOs working on sustainable development, globalization and North-South relations...

  • Brazil

    Supporting low environmental impact farming practices in Amazonia, developing dynamic, reactive varietal creation operations, developing support policies for rural areas...

  • West Indies-French Guiana

    Biodiversity and the environment are major local issues, with research on “clean” bananas and multi-species cropping systems, a regional animal disease surveillance network, a natural forest observation system and biological resource centres...

CIRAD

A French research centre working with developing countries to tackle international agricultural and development issues

Working together for tomorrow's agriculture...

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  • BioTrace 2012: towards safer food supplies?

    © Biotrace

    30/01/2012 - Press release

    The students' association BioTrace, in partnership with CIRAD, INRA, the Pôle Qualiméditerranée and the University of Montpellier 2 and with the support of the Languedoc-Roussillon Regional Council, is organizing the 7th BioTrace symposium, entitled "Nos aliments : des risques avérés aux ...

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  • ICOPE 2012: The environmental and social issues surrounding sustainable oil palm growing

    Young oil palm contour planting with legume cover crops to enrich the soil and for biological control © CIRAD, P. Hornus

    19/01/2012 - Press release

    The third ICOPE (International Conference on Oil Palm and Environment), co-organized by PT Smart ...

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  • In tilapia, sex is all in the mind

    Male tilapia grow faster than females © CIRAD, J.F. Baroiller

    18/01/2012 - Article

    Tilapia breeding is profitable only if it is solely focused on male populations. Hormonal ...

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  • Is sustainable food a common good?

    The issue of sustainable food is a vital one for both current and future generations © CIRAD, N. Bricas

    04/01/2012 - Article

    The inaugural conference of the Unesco Chair in World Food Systems is to be held in Montpellier ...

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  • Domestication of banana: linguists and archeologists get in on the act…

    Male Musa balbisiana banana flower © CIRAD, C.Jenny

    09/01/2012 - Press release

    It was a multidisciplinary approach that succeeded in tracing the history of banana, through the ...

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  • Bois et forêts des tropiques No. 309

    Bois et forêts des tropiques No. 309 (cover) © CIRAD

    18/01/2012 - Article

    Planted forests are the topic of a special report in latest issue of the CIRAD journal Bois et ...

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  • Fruits Vol. 67, No. 1

    Cover of the journal Fruits © CIRAD

    18/01/2012 - Article

    A new issue of the journal Fruits, published by EDP Sciences and CIRAD. ...

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    Baobabs between sky and earth

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    Trailer for the film Baobab entre ciel et terre (English version) - Director: Stéphane Corduant - Scientific Advisor: Cyril Cornu and Pascal Danthu (CIRAD) - Executive Producer: Mada-Movie - Production: CIRAD - Editing: Philippe Causse
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